Bianca Balbuena is a producer, educator and co-founder of Epicmedia, which has produced Cannes Un Certain Regard’s Viet and Nam, Berlinale Silver Bear winner A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, Venice Lion of the Future awardee Engkwentro and the first Filipino film at the Sundance Film Festival Midnight, In My Mother’s Skin.
She is a recipient of the Asian Film Commissions Network’s Producer of the Year and an Outstanding Achievement Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. She has served as a jury member at the Busan, Karlovy Vary, Sydney, Durban, Seashorts and Fribourg film festivals. She is the European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs Ambassador for Asia.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
