When a stocky Filipino-American tween spills ketchup on a traditional heirloom dress, she must accompany her mother to the laundromat where her attempts to restore it only make her feel more displaced in her own skin.

Margarita Mina is a Filipino filmmaker from Quezon City, currently based in Brooklyn. Utilizing digital video, film photography, and journal entries, her projects draw from a fascination with the weird intricacies of the female identity, the chaos of growing up, the stories of people on the margins, and the blurring of fiction with non-fiction in everyday documentation.

Her short film Puppy Love has been screened in competition at the Fribourg International Film Festival where it won the Réseau Cinéma Suisse, as well as the Singapore International Film Festival, and Encounters Film Festival, among others. Her screenplay dead bodies are just rocks was also selected for the Objectifs Short Film Incubator 2021, in partnership with Momo Film Co. She is a current member of Meerkat Media Collective, and one half of the Crybabies Production and Katsusaurus Art duos.

She takes too many photographs and videos collected in mountains of hard drives.

Awarded

2025 NBR Student Grant

 

Type of Project

Narrative

Length

11:21

Program

Stony Brook University

Producer

Crybabies Production, Xiaoxing Chen

Writer, Editor

Margarita Mina

Cinematographers

Jesse Pamintuan, Margarita Mina

Contact

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