DIRECTOR PROFILE:
Apa Agbayani
Apa Agbayani is a writer and director from Manila working through his feelings with magic. He’s finishing a Film MFA at Columbia University in New York. “Abutan man tayo ng house lights” is his third short film after “Somewhere all the boys are birds” (2023), which premiered at NewFest 35 in New York, and “We kept warm” (2021).