FILM
THE PIT (Awaiting World Premiere)
A film for the 2025 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award in collaboration with Ghetto Film School and FIFTH SEASON
Writer / Director / Producer / Editor / Music Producer: Nicole Mairose Dizon
Director of Photography: Mike Maliwanag
A miner consoles his grieving son, Iggy. After spending a day together around their hometown, Iggy rediscovers the beauty of life and connection through his father’s eyes.
RUYA (Awaiting World Premiere)
www.ruyashortfilm.com
Writer/Director/Producer: Nicole Mairose Dizon
Director of Photography: Mike Maliwanag
Editor: Calvin Chin
When a T’boli dreamweaver goes into a coma, her anxious, insomniac daughter must dream and communicate with Fu Dalu, the Spirit of Abaca, to pick up where her mom left off on the next t'nalak.
MORENA (2021)
Mission Asset Fund’s Los Angeles Creative Professionals Relief Fund Recipient
After an insecure Filipina folk artist seeks out controversial skin whitening cream to cope with everyday life, she races against time to reverse its terrifying supernatural side effects.
Writer/Director: Nicole Mairose Dizon
Executive Producer: Loren Maxine
Director of Photography: Tim Toda
Editor: Calvin Chin
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS & NOMINATIONS
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2022 (World Premiere)
Houston Asian American & Pacific Islander Film Festival 2022
The Micheaux Film Festival 2022
Yale Summer Cabaret: Summer of Love Film Festival 2022 (Jury Award Nomination)
San Diego Filipino Film Festival 2022
Silicon Valley Asian Pacific FilmFest 2022
The Film Collective Film Festival 2022
Yucca Valley Film Festival 2022 (Best Short Film Nomination)
The Philippines Film Day Shorts Program at the Asian World Film Festival 2022
Santa Monica International Film Festival 2023
San Pedro International Film Festival 2023
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival 2023
Diwa Filipino Film Festival Showcase of Seattle 2023
Huntington Beach Cultural Film Festival 2023 (2023 Best Thematic Film "Stand Up. Speak Truth." Film Nomination)
Blow-Up Arthouse Film Festival (Semi-Finalist, Charlie Chaplin/Best Narrative Short Award)
Gold House and UTA Filipino/x American History Month Independent Filmmakers Showcase
DEAR MAMA… (2021)
Film Independent Project Involve Short Film
AVAILABLE NOW on The New Yorker and Short of the Week
The death of Tupac draws different reactions from a father and his young daughter, forcing them to confront the emotional aftermath of their own tragedy.
Director: Winter Dunn
Writer: Charmaine Cleveland
Executive Producers: Jordan Hart, Dea Vazquez, and Francisco Velasquez
Producers: Nicole Mairose Dizon, Xin Li
Director of Photography: Mike Maliwanag
Editor: Emily Zhai
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS & NOMINATIONS
SXSW 2022 (World Premiere, Nomination for Grand Jury Award - Narrative Short)
Cleveland International Film Festival 2022
Aspen ShortsFest 2022 (Special Jury Mention - Drama Short)
Florida Film Festival 2022
Milwaukee Film Festival 2022
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2022
Diversity in Cannes Showcase 2022
Palm Springs International ShortFest 2022
Micheaux Film Festival 2022
Indy Shorts International Film Festival 2022
Snake Alley Festival of Film 2022
Cordillera International Film Festival 2022 (Special Jury Award Nomination - John Singleton Impact Award)
The RSF Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival 2022
HollyShorts Film Festival 2022
The New Yorker - Screening Room
Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival 2022
GuadaLAjara Film Festival 2022
New Hampshire Film Festival 2022
Hamptons International Film Festival 2022
Montclair Film Festival 2022 (Nomination - Fiction Shorts Competition)
The Film Collective Film Festival 2022
Urbanworld Film Festival 2022
Centre Film Festival 2022 (Winner - Best Acting Fiction Short)
Chicago International Children's Film Festival 2022
Short of the Week
Pittsburgh Shorts & Script Competition 2022
Toronto Shorts International Film Festival 2022
54th NAACP Image Awards Win - Outstanding Short-Form (Live Action)
Honolulu African American Film Festival 2023
MiraLA Short Film Festival 2023
Plan A: Black Women on the Rise Film Festival 2023
San Luis Obispo International Film Festival 2023
Seattle Black Film Festival 2023
We Make Movies International Film Festival 2023
THE MASON RING (2021)
Film Independent Project Involve Short
A pair of siblings make a late-night drop-off at a funeral home to deliver their grandfather's Mason ring for him to be buried in the next day. But unexpected events lead to an impromptu goodbye with the deceased.
Writer/Director: Terry Dawson
Executive Producers: Ciara Wardlow, Dea Vazquez, Francisco Velasquez
Producers: Fiona Hardingham, Nicole Mairose Dizon
Director of Photography: Ino Yang Popper
Editor: Selinda Zhou
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS & NOMINATIONS
Pan African Film Festival 2022 (World Premiere)
Venice Short Film Awards 2022
African Diaspora International Film Festival 2022
Harlem International Film Festival 2022
San Francisco Black Film Festival 2022
Bentonville Film Festival 2022
Micheaux Film Festival 2022
HollyShorts Film Festival 2022
The RSF Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival 2022 (Winner - HBO Max’s 2022 Best Short Film Competition)
Lakefront Film Festival 2022
Twin Cities Black Film Festival 2022
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (Market)
FRUIT FLY (2019)
At an off-kilter performing arts school, a young woman with a penchant for falling for gay men finds herself in a love triangle, while performing in her school’s production of Twelfth Night.
This film was produced with the support of local Filipinx-owned businesses and Seed & Spark donors.
Writer/Director: Kaitlyn Fae
Executive Producers: Kaitlyn Fae, Chelsea Javier
Producers: Nicole Mairose Dizon, Mary Grant
Director of Photography: Jay Swuen
Editor: Julian Doan
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Cinema Diverse: Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival 2020
HAAPIFest 2020
Atlanta’s Women’s Comedy Film Festival 2020
BOXED (2018)
An elderly Filipina sends care packages to family, as a part of the wider "balikbayan" phenomenon that encapsulates an immigrant's longing for home and desire to share the American dream.
Director / Producer / Director of Photography / Editor: Nicole Mairose Dizon