Demie (b. 1992) is a Filipina filmmaker and artist based in Manila, Philippines. She is exploring various formats, including creative documentaries, fiction, experimental media, sound, print, still, and moving images.
Her debut documentary feature film, Magnetic Letters, is currently in development and has been selected for prestigious labs and forums such as Berlinale Talents (2023, Germany), Docs by the Sea (2023, Indonesia), IDFAcademy (2023, The Netherlands), Full Circle Lab (2024, Philippines) Visions du Réel (2024, Switzerland) and Cannes Docs (2025, France).
Her current practice explores how intimate histories connect to a broader societal context, seeking out life’s paradoxes and engaging with the personal.
Her storytelling practice began in journalism, working as a segment producer for a television documentary, a writer, a photojournalist, and a videographer for an alternative and collective media group documenting marginalised communities in the Philippines. In 2016, she received the National Geographic Young Explorer Award.
Her independent and artistic works have been shown at Gawad Alternatibo, Cinema Rehiyon, Angkor Photo Festival and Workshops, Hong Kong International Photo Festival, Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video and Music Festival, and DIFFUSION Festival.
📩 mdemiedangla@gmail.com
IG @demiedangla, @magnetic__letters
YT @demie.dangla
─────Exhibitions/Participations/Screenings
2025
– Experimental media screening, Voices Amplified, Dang A Dang Radio, Philippines
– Group exhibition, What We Carry, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore
– Selected participant, Asian Project Market, South Korea
– Selected participant, Cannes Docs, France
– Group exhibition, I/Land, FOTOMOTO, Philippines
– Film screening, Time After Time, WE Film PH, Philippines
– Presenter, If Art is a Hammer Lecture Series, Philippines
2024
– Selected participant, Vision du Réel, Switzerland
– Film programmer, Palestine Cinema Days, Philippines
– Selected participant, Full Circle Lab Creative Producer’s Lab, Philippines
– Speaker, Masterclass on Visual Storytelling of True Tales, Philippines
2023
– Group exhibition, UNDERCURRENTS, Tarzeer Pictures, Art Fair Philippines
– Selected participant, Docs by the Sea Storytelling Lab, Indonesia
– Selected participant, Berlinale Talents Doc Station Lab, Germany
– Selected participant, IDFA Academy, Netherlands
– Speaker, Climate Story Lab, Philippines
2022
– Selected participant, FDCP International Film Industry Conference, Philippines
2020
– Selected participant, IF/Then Storytelling Lab, Indonesia