Bianca Balbuena is a 31-year old producer, writer, co-founder and CEO of Epicmedia Productions Inc which has produced over 25 feature films most notably Venice Film Festival 2009 Lion of the Future and Orrizonti Best Film: "Engkwentro" by Pepe Diokno and Berlinale 2016 Silver Bear "A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery" by Lav Diaz. She also the youngest awardee of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) FIAPF Award for contribution to Asia Pacific cinema. She has attended Produire Au Sud, Rotterdam Producers Lab, Talent Campus Tokyo, Cannes' La Fabrique des Cinemas du Monde, EAVE Ties That Bind and Berlinale Talent Project Market where she won the ARTE Prize for her film, Above The Clouds, her first venture into French co-production. She has mentored in film labs and served as jury of film festivals such as Fribourg and Durban. She was also nominated for the Best Foreign Producer at the Madrid International Film Festival 2015. Her next collaboration with Lav Diaz is his upcoming musical feature "The Season Of The Devil" which will premiere early next year. She has produced films which have premiered and won in festivals such as Venice, Berlinale, San Sebastián, Toronto, Busan, Tokyo, Thessaloniki, Rotterdam, Taipei Golden Horse, Sydney and Karlovy Vary. In the Philippines, she is most known for producing Antoinette Jadaone's "That Thing Called Tadhana" which became one of the highest grossing independent film in Philippine box office history on a production budget of 60,000 USD. She is currently producing Bradley Liew's "Motel Acacia" which was part of the 2017 Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab and has been supported by BiFan's NAFF IT Project and EAVE Ties That Bind. Liew's debut feature, "Singing In Graveyards", premiered at Venice Film Festival Critics Week 2016 and is chosen to participate at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2017 along with yet another film she produced, Those Long Haired Nights. Her mission is to strengthen collaborations within the region and help deserving directors bring their films to the global scale.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Producer and actor, also writer
- 12 on MovieCove · 64 credits in all
What are Bianca Balbuena's films like?
Across their 10 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 10
Light 2 · Serious 2 · Dark 6
Grounded 4 · Stylized 6 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 3 · Intense 6
Steady 2 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 4
Straight-faced 7 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 1
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 6 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 2
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 7
Resolved 4 · Open-ended 4 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet4
- Tragic2
- Ambiguous4
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Bianca Balbuena's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 7 of their 12 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Bianca Balbuena's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
64 credits, 12 with a MovieCove page.
Four Seasons in Java (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Balaraw: Blood Island (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Filipiñana(2026)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
Magellan(2025)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
Sunshine(2024)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
This City Is a Battlefield (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Sampung Utos Kay Josh (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Cu Li Never Cries (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Việt and Nam (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Cold Cut (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Nightbirds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Silig (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Walay Balay (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
I Am Not Big Bird(2024)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
Begin in the Middle (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Third World Romance(2023)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
When the Waves Are Gone (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Essential Truths of the Lake (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Rookie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Where is the Lie? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Missed Connections(2023)
Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films
In My Mother's Skin(2023)
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films
Barbarian Invasion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Nocebo(2022)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
My Delivery Gurl (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
City of Flowers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Tenement 66 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Midnight in a Perfect World (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Fan Girl(2020)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
The Tapes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Motel Acacia(2019)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all films
Tía Madré (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The Woman and the Gun (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Ma (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The Manila Lover (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Ode to Nothing (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Season of the Devil (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Want You with All My Hypothalamus (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Doors: Team B Terror (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Chedeng & Apple (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Jesus Is Dead (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Singing in Graveyards (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
#WalangForever (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Miss Bulalacao (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Kapatiran (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Beast (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Describe the Color Red to a Blind Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Swap (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all filmsConscience (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Soap Opera (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Above the Clouds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
We Need To Break Up (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Saturday Night Chills (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Prologue to the Great Desaparecido (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Slumber Party (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Agusan Marsh Diaries (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Senior Year (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Faculty (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Engkwentro (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
The Blood Trail (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Boldstar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 64 titles, 63 of them dated from 2009 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Nocebo (2022)
Highest rated
Sunshine (2024)
Most popular right now
Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors (2026)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
Nominated for a Venice award in 2016, Best Film (International Film Critics Week).
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Bianca Balbuena's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 61st percentile, the median of all 12; across their 10 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 56th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 12 titles are Mixed.
- Divisive2
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed7
Reviewers score the acting 68/100 in their films, across 8 reviewed titles; fans 79, detractors 46. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Bianca Balbuena work with?
People who share at least 2 of Bianca Balbuena's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Bradley Liew shares the most, 5.
Directors
- Antoinette JadaoneShared titles: Sunshine (2024), Fan Girl (2020), That Thing Called Tadhana (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Antoinette Jadaone
Actors
- Ronnie LazaroShared titles: Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors (2026), In My Mother's Skin (2023)See all 2 shared titles with Ronnie Lazaro
- Brian SyShared titles: In My Mother's Skin (2023), Motel Acacia (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Brian Sy
- JC SantosShared titles: Missed Connections (2023), Motel Acacia (2019)See all 2 shared titles with JC Santos
Composers and editors
- Benjamin Gonzales TolentinoShared titles: Fan Girl (2020), Motel Acacia (2019), That Thing Called Tadhana (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Benjamin Gonzales Tolentino
- Emerzon TexonShared titles: I Am Not Big Bird (2024), That Thing Called Tadhana (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Emerzon Texon
Producers
- Bradley LiewShared titles: Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors (2026), I Am Not Big Bird (2024), In My Mother's Skin (2023), Nocebo (2022), Motel Acacia (2019)See all 5 shared titles with Bradley Liew
- Carlo L. KatigbakShared titles: I Am Not Big Bird (2024), Third World Romance (2023), Fan Girl (2020), Motel Acacia (2019)See all 4 shared titles with Carlo L. Katigbak
- Kren V. YapShared titles: I Am Not Big Bird (2024), Missed Connections (2023), Third World Romance (2023), Fan Girl (2020)See all 4 shared titles with Kren V. Yap
- Kriz G. GazmenShared titles: I Am Not Big Bird (2024), Third World Romance (2023), Fan Girl (2020), Motel Acacia (2019)See all 4 shared titles with Kriz G. Gazmen
