Daluyong Studios is a Philippines-based production house founded by producer Alemberg Ang. We are known for collaborating with both local and international partners producing a wide range of films and series. From arthouse films to digital series, experimental shorts to documentary features – our projects address various social and cultural issues, including violence against women, LGBTQ rights, and mental health. This highlights the company’s commitment to telling stories that not only entertain but also create social awareness and provoke conversations. Ultimately, the company aims to give cultural minorities a voice in world cinema.
We began by producing small arthouse films in 2009, often receiving grants from local film festivals such as Cinemalaya, QCinema, and Cinema One Originals. Some of these productions had a modest theatrical release while others eventually premiered at international film festivals like Tokyo, Warsaw, and Torino. After a decade, we started developing international co-productions, particularly with emerging talents from across Asia. These projects have successfully participated in various international programs like the Locarno Open Doors, Tribeca Film Institute Network, Kids Kino Industry, Cannes Docs, IDFA Producers Connection, and La Fabrique Cinema du Monde, among others. In recent years, the fruits of these collaborations have premiered in festivals in Cannes, Toronto, Fantasia, New York, Busan, and Sundance.
In Tagalog, “daluyong” means large, tidal waves that can be as massive as a tsunami. Over the years, we have learned that it is vital to adapt and go with the flow to thrive in the realm of independent filmmaking. But at the same time, we are also aware of how much our films can be a force in our society. In the end, this is what we wish to achieve: to be an agent of positive change in the world we live in while crafting quality films that are both engaging and relevant.
About the Team
Alemberg Ang
School teacher turned film producer, Alemberg Ang’s filmmaking is shaped by his passion for socio-civic issues, and Philippine arts and literature. His films have traveled extensively to festivals in Cannes, Sundance, and Busan, among others. He was invited to the UNESCO International Meeting of Independent Producers, Rotterdam Lab, Berlinale Talents, SEAFIC, Locarno Open Doors, La Fabrique Cinema du Monde, Tribeca Film Institute Network, and EAVE Producers Workshop. He is a guest lecturer at the University of the Philippines Film Institute, Ateneo de Manila University, and De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde.
Iana Bernardez
Iana Bernardez started her career in 2016 with Thop Nazareno’s Kiko Boksingero (2016, Cinemalaya), and Kenneth Dagatan’s second film Ma (2018, New York AFF). Since then, she has worked for production companies like Epicmedia and Daluyong Studios. Her most notable work includes Dwein Baltazar’s Ode to Nothing (2018, Karlovy Vary and Fantasia) and Rae Red’s The Girl and the Gun (2019, opening film at New York AFF). She recently attended the Rotterdam Lab and Produire au Sud Workshop.
Kristine De Leon
Kristine De Leon started her career at the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), the country’s premier government agency for film. She helped pioneer and manage its international co-production funds before finally starting to produce her films. She had spent her first years as a producer working on numerous short films and circling different production jobs as an assistant director, as a writer, and even as an actress. She’s an alumna of the Produire au Sud Workshop, La Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut français and the International Film Business Academy (IFBA) Program of the Busan Asian Film School. Kristine embraces her newfound role as a mother, cherishing her daughter as the most exquisite masterpiece of her life.
Robert Gueco Tan
Robert GUECO TAN is a Filipino filmmaker who came from the world of theater and the social sciences. He attended Ateneo de Manila University from 2015-2020, graduating with degrees in Political Science and Theater Directing. For the past three and a half years, he has been working with independent film company Daluyong Studios, under which he has served as an associate producer for numerous projects, like the Black Sheep Boys’ Love series Hello Stranger (2020), Whammy Alcazaren’s Bold Eagle (Sundance 2024; NYFF 2023) and Petersen Vargas’ Some Nights I Feel Like Walking (Cannes L’Atelier 2020). Through his work, Robert endeavors to bridge commercial and arthouse cinema as well as to give audiences an avenue to become more in touch with their humanity, showing them the different colors of a world that is never just simply black and white.