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Julio Rionaldo

Julio Rionaldo is a global filmmaker whose work explores memory, mortality, love, connection, and the fleeting experiences that shape what it means to be human. Drawing from cinematic traditions across Asia, Europe, and North America, he creates character-driven stories that often blend realism with elements of fantasy and imagination. His work has become recognized for capturing moments of conne…

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Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace · 2018

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

The Florida Project

The Florida Project · 2017

The Florida Project

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

Nine Days

Nine Days · 2021

MovieDramaFantasy

A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.

Dusk & Demitasse

Dusk & Demitasse · 2017

Dusk & Demitasse

MovieAdventureComedy

Two friends, set on a journey to find the tastiest coffee flavor in the archipelago.

Residue

Residue · 2020

A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.

Mickey and the Bear

Mickey and the Bear · 2019

Mickey and the Bear

In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place she can call home.

Atlantics

Atlantics · 2019

MovieDramaRomance

Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.

Bestiary

Bestiary · 2025

MovieDramaThriller

In a film about monsters, an actor’s greatest enemy is his own grief, a beast that grows stronger with every scene.

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Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace · 2018

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

Script Researcher

The Florida Project

The Florida Project · 2017

The Florida Project

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

Script Researcher

Nine Days

Nine Days · 2021

MovieDramaFantasy

A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.

Script Researcher

Dusk & Demitasse

Dusk & Demitasse · 2017

Dusk & Demitasse

MovieAdventureComedy

Two friends, set on a journey to find the tastiest coffee flavor in the archipelago.

Director

Residue

Residue · 2020

A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind.

Script Researcher

Mickey and the Bear

Mickey and the Bear · 2019

Mickey and the Bear

In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place she can call home.

Script Researcher

Atlantics

Atlantics · 2019

MovieDramaRomance

Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.

Script Researcher

Bestiary

Bestiary · 2025

MovieDramaThriller

In a film about monsters, an actor’s greatest enemy is his own grief, a beast that grows stronger with every scene.

Director

Sweet Lightspeed

Sweet Lightspeed · 2024

Sweet Lightspeed

MovieDramaRomance

A poignant tale that follows a young woman as she immerses herself in vivid memories about the unforgettable night she spent with her Formula One racer fiancé, just before his tragic demise in the climactic final Grand Prix for the World Championship

Writer

Solitude

Solitude · 2016

A chronicle of daily life in quarantine.

Director

Terambau

Terambau · 2016

MovieFamilyRomance

When a filmmaker is having his drought because of a tragic love story. He realized that his friends are the ones he need.

Assistant Director

Infidelis

Infidelis · 2022

A contemporary retelling of the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: A maestro who is endowed with superhuman musical skills loses his fiancé before their wedding day. Distraught with grief, he made a deal with death in order to restore her to mortality. Even just for a fleeting moment.

Associate Producer

Scarlet

Scarlet · 2023

When a man tries to cheat on his girlfriend with the alluring and mysterious Scarlet, he soon realizes that she is a serial killer targeting unfaithful men. As he desperately tries to escape her grasp, he becomes ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse, where the stakes are his own life.

Director

The Shape of Invisible Skies

The Shape of Invisible Skies · 2026

The Shape of Invisible Skies

MovieAdventureDrama

An anthology of seven stories exploring the unseen spaces that shape us: between memory and desire, departure and return. Each lifetime captures fleeting moments of connection and transformation across time and space, where meaning hides behind invisible skies

Director

Associates

Associates · 2021

MovieActionMystery

When a ragtag band of professionals unite to pull of a seemingly impossible heist before time runs out.

Writer

Neverwhen

Neverwhen · 2025

MovieFantasyRomance

As a young lady prepares to leave behind her childhood home, a playful and enigmatic elf from her past invites her into a nostalgic game of hide and seek.

Director

Engineering Eternity

Engineering Eternity · 2021

Engineering Eternity

MovieScience FictionFamily

He is an engineer, she is a machine. Brother and sister, lovers, father and daughter, inventor and invention. This is a story about them, trying to find eternity, before the end of time.

Writer

Vesper

MovieFantasyRomance

A gifted college freshman discovers an extraordinary connection within the infinite space where dreams and reality entwine, transforming fear into an unexpected romance that unfolds within the pages of her fairy tale storybook.

Director

Psykopat

Psykopat · 2025

MovieDramaThriller

A famous illusionist challenges four participants to stay in a mysterious house for five days to win a grand prize. Though the house seems luxurious, it hides a dark past of murder. Strange events and terrifying apparitions soon reveal the true challenge. Who will make it out alive?

Associate Producer

Frost

MovieRomanceFantasy

In their final night together, a boy and a girl create a tender universe under their blanket fort, blissfully indifferent to the world outside that is slowly coming to an end.

Writer

The Rooftop is Empty

The Rooftop is Empty · 2026

The Rooftop is Empty

Forced to work on a Saturday, three office workers receive an enticing offer from a mysterious janitor.

Producer

The Secret Life of Daydreams

The Secret Life of Daydreams · 2024

The Secret Life of Daydreams

MovieRomanceDrama

An aspiring young actress trying to break into the film industry crosses paths with a miserable arthouse filmmaker to produce a film which manages to challenge both of their resolve to survive in the film industry.

Writer

L.O.S.T.

L.O.S.T. · 2023

MovieAdventureDocumentary

Lima Oscar Sierra and Tango (L.O.S.T.) rendezvous at an abandoned amusement park to embark on a wild treasure hunt.

Oscar

Vagabond Buccaneers

Vagabond Buccaneers · 2024

Vagabond Buccaneers

MovieDramaFantasy

In the fading light of day, a climactic duel between a legendary pirate captain and his first mate becomes a metaphor for the battle between dreams and reality.

Writer