Geo Lomuntad is a young producer who started out as a script supervisor in Manila, the Philippines. In 2018, he was an associate producer for Bianca Balbuena in co-production films Fan Girl (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2020) and Boldstar (CJ Entertainment Prize, Asian Project Market 2019 and Berlinale Co-Production Market 2020). He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents Tokyo, Busan Asian Film School, Full Circle and IFFR Producers Lab.
In 2021, his produced short film I Get So Sad Sometimes won Best Short Film at QCinema International Film Festival and later on went to screen in international fests including Inside Out FF and Queer East FF. His first produced feature film, The Missing (Iti Mapukpukaw, directed by Carl Joseph Papa), which competed for and won Best Film, NETPAC Jury Award and Best Supporting Actress for Dolly de Leon in Cinemalaya IFF 2023, was the Philippines’ official submission to the 96th Academy Awards. His recent project Sunshine had its world premiere at Toronto IFF Centerpiece. He is currently working on his third producing project, Sentinel, with Carl Joseph Papa.
His mission is to champion more Filipino films around the world.
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