Raya Martin has directed several features and short films—fictions, documentaries, installations, and performances. His breakthrough feature Independencia (supported by the Berlinale World Cinema Fund) premiered at the Un Certain Regard Competition, he also co-directed the urban noir Manila, which screened Out of Competition in the same year. Martin’s most recent films include the crime drama Smaller and Smaller Circles, based on the best-selling Filipino crime novel by F.H. Batacan. His works have also been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); documenta 13, Kassel (2012); the Museum of Moving Image (2012); Korean Film Archive (2012); and the Asian Film Archive Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009). He was a resident of the Cannes Cinéfondation and the Berlinale Residency programs. Raya Martin is a recipient of the prestigious Thirteen Artists Awards in the Philippines.
