Ara Chawdhury
FILMMAKER | WRITER | MUSICIAN
California-based Ara Chawdhury is an award-winning Pinay-Desi writer/director, human rights activist, event organizer, musician, and translator who tells stories in English, Filipino, and Cebuano.
Filmography
About Me
I want to create provocative art that challenges the world being presented to my children and the rest of the global southern majority. I am interested in deconstructing how history shapes culture, and reconstructing a sensibility from the debris of cultural erasure. My work has been described as “Charming”, “Rich”, “Irreverent”.
Press
We are admittedly far from finished. We recognize the real work and real experiment happens...
Revolving around the idea of the essence of womanhood portrayed by a homosexual character, her...
Miss Bulalacao is a Cebuano sci-fi story that follows a queer young boy who suddenly...
I always feel like access is an issue. I was talking to Ara Chawdhury, the...
The most exciting thing in Filipino cinema right now is the rise of regional cinema....
