Person
Karl Maalab Paredes
Directing
Biography
KARL MAALAB PAREDES is a filmmaker based in Quezon City and a student at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. His experimental documentary Concrete Conflicts (2025) is streaming on Cinemata, and he served as Director of Photography and editor for the Cheeky Things music video “Bones,” named one of 2024’s standout Filipino music videos by Rolling Stone Philippines. He is also the founder and managing director of SineSoirée, an independent community-driven film programming initiative that cultivates collaborative spaces for filmmakers to exhibit, share, and discuss their work beyond traditional exhibition circuits. Karl Maalab’s work explores the tensions of power and the quiet violences embedded in everyday life, often bending form and genre to make the invisible visible.
Known for
Split
Director
cockroach
Location Assistant
Encounter
Kapre
An Extra Super Special Mystery Film
Associate Producer
Concrete Conflicts
Director
Paul's Best Friend, Rico
Rico Tiu
To Strike is The Weapon
Screenplay
Bahay Barikada (Class Cut)
Director
Filmography
- 2026cockroachLocation Assistant
- 2025An Extra Super Special Mystery FilmAssociate Producer
- 2024Bahay Barikada (Class Cut)Director
- 2024Concrete ConflictsDirector
- 2023SplitDirector
- 2023EncounterKapre
- 2022Paul's Best Friend, RicoRico Tiu
- —To Strike is The WeaponScreenplay
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