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Bianca Balbuena

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Bianca Balbuena
Bianca Balbuena is a 31-year old producer, writer, co-founder and CEO of Epicmedia Productions Inc which has produced over 25 feature films most notably Venice Film Festival 2009 Lion of the Future and Orrizonti Best Film: "Engkwentro" by Pepe Diokno and Berlinale 2016 Silver Bear "A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery" by Lav Diaz. She also the youngest awardee of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) FIAPF Award for contribution to Asia Pacific cinema.

She has attended Produire Au Sud, Rotterdam Producers Lab, Talent Campus Tokyo, Cannes' La Fabrique des Cinemas du Monde, EAVE Ties That Bind and Berlinale Talent Project Market where she won the ARTE Prize for her film, Above The Clouds, her first venture into French co-production. She has mentored in film labs and served as jury of film festivals such as Fribourg and Durban. She was also nominated for the Best Foreign Producer at the Madrid International Film Festival 2015.

Her next collaboration with Lav Diaz is his upcoming musical feature "The Season Of The Devil" which will premiere early next year. She has produced films which have premiered and won in festivals such as Venice, Berlinale, San Sebastián, Toronto, Busan, Tokyo, Thessaloniki, Rotterdam, Taipei Golden Horse, Sydney and Karlovy Vary. In the Philippines, she is most known for producing Antoinette Jadaone's "That Thing Called Tadhana" which became one of the highest grossing independent film in Philippine box office history on a production budget of 60,000 USD. She is currently producing Bradley Liew's "Motel Acacia" which was part of the 2017 Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab and has been supported by BiFan's NAFF IT Project and EAVE Ties That Bind. Liew's debut feature, "Singing In Graveyards", premiered at Venice Film Festival Critics Week 2016 and is chosen to participate at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2017 along with yet another film she produced, Those Long Haired Nights.

Her mission is to strengthen collaborations within the region and help deserving directors bring their films to the global scale.
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Agot Isidro, Bianca Balbuena, and Bradley Liew
Agot Isidro, Bianca Balbuena, and Bradley Liew
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Known for

Pepe Smith in Singing in Graveyards (2016)
Singing in Graveyards
7.4
  • Producer
  • 2016
Beast (2015)
Beast
7.2
  • Producer
  • 2015
Single/Single (2015)
Single/Single
TV Mini Series
  • Producer
Noel Sto. Domingo in Season of the Devil (2018)
Season of the Devil
7.0
  • Producer
  • 2018

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Producer

  • Tilt
    • Post-production
  • Where Is the Lie?
  • In My Mother's Skin (2023)
    In My Mother's Skin
  • Eva Green in Nocebo (2022)
    Nocebo
  • John Lloyd Cruz in Kapag wala nang mga alon (2022)
    Kapag wala nang mga alon
  • Madeleine Nicolas, Erghyll Jeric Panganiban, Pipay Kipay, Markki Stroem, and Sky Teotico in My Delivery Gurl (2022)
    My Delivery Gurl
  • Lou Veloso, Francis Magundayao, Noel Comia Jr., and Francine Diaz in Tenement 66 (2021)
    Tenement 66
  • Barbarian Invasion (2021)
    Barbarian Invasion
  • Thea Marabut, Joross Gamboa, Sid Lucero, Annicka Dolonius, Beauty Gonzalez, JC Santos, Christian Bables, and Iana Bernardez in Now Streaming (2021)
    Now Streaming
  • Midnight in a Perfect World (2020)
    Midnight in a Perfect World
  • Iza Calzado and Jameson Blake in Loving Emily (2020)
    Loving Emily
  • Charlie Dizon in Fan Girl (2020)
    Fan Girl
  • Sam Milby and Yassi Pressman in The Tapes (2020)
    The Tapes
  • Cherie Gil and Jana Agoncillo in Tía Madré (2019)
    Tía Madré
    • (as Bianca Balbuena-Liew)
  • JC Santos in Motel Acacia (2019)
    Motel Acacia
  • The Woman and the Gun (2019)
    The Woman and the Gun
    • (as Bianca Balbuena-Liew)

Additional Crew

  • Madeleine Nicolas, Erghyll Jeric Panganiban, Pipay Kipay, Markki Stroem, and Sky Teotico in My Delivery Gurl (2022)
    My Delivery Gurl
  • Lou Veloso, Francis Magundayao, Noel Comia Jr., and Francine Diaz in Tenement 66 (2021)
    Tenement 66
  • Thea Marabut, Joross Gamboa, Sid Lucero, Annicka Dolonius, Beauty Gonzalez, JC Santos, Christian Bables, and Iana Bernardez in Now Streaming (2021)
    Now Streaming
  • Iza Calzado and Jameson Blake in Loving Emily (2020)
    Loving Emily
  • Charlie Dizon in Fan Girl (2020)
    Fan Girl
  • Sam Milby and Yassi Pressman in The Tapes (2020)
    The Tapes
  • JC Santos in Motel Acacia (2019)
    Motel Acacia
  • Alvin Anson, Dennis Trillo, Jerald Napoles, Matteo Guidicelli, Dionne Monsanto, Mara Lopez, Anthony Falcon, Marc Felix, and Luke Landrigan in Mina-anud (2019)
    Mina-anud
    • (as Bianca Balbuena-Liew)
  • Shaina Magdayao and Loisa Andalio in Past, Present, Perfect? (2019)
    Past, Present, Perfect?
    • (as Bianca Balbuena-Liew)
  • John Arcilla in Heneral Luna (2015)
    Heneral Luna
  • Briana Evigan and Jericho Rosales in Subject: I Love You (2011)
    Subject: I Love You

Writer

  • Thea Marabut, Joross Gamboa, Sid Lucero, Annicka Dolonius, Beauty Gonzalez, JC Santos, Christian Bables, and Iana Bernardez in Now Streaming (2021)
    Now Streaming
    • (creator)
  • JC Santos in Motel Acacia (2019)
    Motel Acacia
  • Doors
  • Pepe Smith in Singing in Graveyards (2016)
    Singing in Graveyards
  • Single/Single (2015)
    Single/Single
    • (creator)
  • The Undertaker
  • Engkwentro (2009)
    Engkwentro
  • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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    At the 4th Madrid International Film Festival, she was nominated Best Producer of a Foreign Language Film for 'The Undertaker (2014)'.

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