Person
Kayla Abuda Galang
Directing · Olongapo City, Zambales, Philippines
Biography
Kayla Abuda Galang is a filmmaker based in Austin, Texas, drawing from the humor and details of her communities, surroundings, memory, and the television that raised her. Her short film, When You Left Me On That Boulevard, won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, received the Ani ng Dangal from the National Commission for Culture and Arts of the Philippines, and joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a voting member in the Short Films Branch. She works as a video producer at the University of Texas.
Known for
Rent Free
Evie
An Ongoing List of Things Found in the Library Book Drop, Usually Being Used as Bookmarks
Writer
Joan On The Phone
Director
Papa
Director
Learning Tagalog with Kayla
Kayla
Shirt Orders with Rory Blank
Editor
When You Left Me on That Boulevard
Director
Filmography
- 2025An Ongoing List of Things Found in the Library Book Drop, Usually Being Used as BookmarksWriter
- 2024Rent FreeEvie
- 2023When You Left Me on That BoulevardDirector
- 2021Learning Tagalog with KaylaKayla
- 2016Joan On The PhoneDirector
- 2013PapaDirector
- —Shirt Orders with Rory BlankEditor
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