Festival Note
Local Title: Ampangabagat Nin Talakba Ha Likol
After Maya goes home to Zambales due to the impending end of the world, she realizes that her childhood home is watching her. Because it’s raining frogs outside, she stays at home and is tormented by the house. Maya eventually wonders if the house is still worth escaping if the world outside is already ending.
Maria Estela Paiso has been in post-production since 2016 and has edited two feature films and several shorts. The themes of her personal projects revolve around memory and often use techniques that attempt to make tangible what has already passed. Her post-production background plays a major role in her DIY shorts and music videos. In 2021, she forayed into directing with her short film Ampangabagat Nin Talakba Ha Likol. In between dreaming about the films she wants to make, she spends her free time trying to get a 100 at karaoke and watching the downpour of frogs outside her window.