Production

Jay-r David Julio

Born September 11, 2001 · Manila, Philippines (age 24)

Jay-r David Julio is a film graduate at the University of the Philippines - Diliman. He is an independent producer, director, and an aspiring cinematographer. He is mainly interested in telling queer stories and stories that focus on family, migration, and memory. His latest film, '50lo Trip With Lolo Dan', with Denbert M. Tiamson, has been selected as a finalist for the 50th Metro Manila Film Fes…

Known For

Almost Us

Almost Us · 2026

MovieRomanceDrama

RR has always been in love with his best friend, Janine. But she's infatuated with Kenzo, the star of her own fan fiction. When he finds a way for Janine to meet Kenzo, will he risk his own happiness just for her to have her own happiness?

We're Just Sleepwalking

We're Just Sleepwalking · 2024

We're Just Sleepwalking

A middle aged couple—Leila, a human resourcer officer, and Felix, a ride hailing app driver—will find their seemingly lifeless routine shaken when Leila sleepwalks one night and asks Felix, “Who are you?” Against their fast-paced urban life, the sleepwalking incidents will spark the question of their existence and togetherness, and finally, wake them up to life.

Danas

Flor, a drag queen, is forced to walk home after a cancelled gig. Along the way, intense heat and sporadic rain test their health and resilience.

Moonlighters

Moonlighters · 2025

MovieRomanceScience Fiction

A call center applicant manipulates time during his interview only to find out his interviewer could do the same. The two become stuck in a limbo as they accidentally stop time at the same moment, leading them to confront the frozen world together.

kain tayo!

kain tayo! · 2024

Fifty years into a Philippines riddled with rising prices and scarcity in local produce, a person travels to the wet market to look for ingredients. These ingredients transpose to random household objects while cooking until the person serves a dish scrambled with the most bizarre objects you could think of.

Sumalunan

Sumalunan · 2024

While on an out-of-town birthday party, Bianca, an only child to a single father, receives a phone call about her father’s sudden passing. She spends the next 12 hours arranging the logistics of his funeral while tackling the feeling of an unexpected profound loss.

Yelo

In the cramped heat of a thrift shop in Cubao, the air is thick with the unspoken desires of Jessa and Candy. But when a foreigner arrives with the promise of America, their lives are led astray.

Status: Rejected

Status: Rejected · 2026

Status: Rejected

MovieDramaComedy

Longing for love and the promise of a better life, a grandmother finds herself swept into an unexpected online romance that challenges her sense of worth, family, and the dreams she refuses to let go of.

Filmography

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Almost Us

Almost Us · 2026

MovieRomanceDrama

RR has always been in love with his best friend, Janine. But she's infatuated with Kenzo, the star of her own fan fiction. When he finds a way for Janine to meet Kenzo, will he risk his own happiness just for her to have her own happiness?

Continuity

We're Just Sleepwalking

We're Just Sleepwalking · 2024

We're Just Sleepwalking

A middle aged couple—Leila, a human resourcer officer, and Felix, a ride hailing app driver—will find their seemingly lifeless routine shaken when Leila sleepwalks one night and asks Felix, “Who are you?” Against their fast-paced urban life, the sleepwalking incidents will spark the question of their existence and togetherness, and finally, wake them up to life.

Set Decoration

Danas

Flor, a drag queen, is forced to walk home after a cancelled gig. Along the way, intense heat and sporadic rain test their health and resilience.

Assistant Director

Moonlighters

Moonlighters · 2025

MovieRomanceScience Fiction

A call center applicant manipulates time during his interview only to find out his interviewer could do the same. The two become stuck in a limbo as they accidentally stop time at the same moment, leading them to confront the frozen world together.

Line Producer

kain tayo!

kain tayo! · 2024

Fifty years into a Philippines riddled with rising prices and scarcity in local produce, a person travels to the wet market to look for ingredients. These ingredients transpose to random household objects while cooking until the person serves a dish scrambled with the most bizarre objects you could think of.

Production Manager

Sumalunan

Sumalunan · 2024

While on an out-of-town birthday party, Bianca, an only child to a single father, receives a phone call about her father’s sudden passing. She spends the next 12 hours arranging the logistics of his funeral while tackling the feeling of an unexpected profound loss.

Producer

Yelo

In the cramped heat of a thrift shop in Cubao, the air is thick with the unspoken desires of Jessa and Candy. But when a foreigner arrives with the promise of America, their lives are led astray.

Line Producer

Status: Rejected

Status: Rejected · 2026

Status: Rejected

MovieDramaComedy

Longing for love and the promise of a better life, a grandmother finds herself swept into an unexpected online romance that challenges her sense of worth, family, and the dreams she refuses to let go of.

Continuity

Ulit-ulit

Ulit-ulit · 2023

After being forced out of school, Kokoy, 20, finally finds hope after landing a job interview. Little does he know that he is living a real-life loop of badluck.

Production Manager

Chongking Express

Chongking Express · 2024

Chongking Express

MovieComedyAnimation

Two friends embark on a quest to uncover allegedly planted marijuana in the backyard of their town's mayor, only to encounter an appalling surprise.

Assistant Director

San Simon

San Simon · 2025

After years in the United States, Miguel returns to the Philippines as a young man. Revisiting his hometown in Pampanga, he is flooded with memories of dreams and cherished moments shared with his childhood friend Simon. Carrying a souvenir from America, Miguel discovers that Simon is no longer there to meet him.

Co-Producer

Have I Grown?

Have I Grown? · 2024

A film by Fea Fortuna

Production Manager

Fidel Ten Days Before the End of the World—The Universe Rather

Fidel Ten Days Before the End of the World—The Universe Rather · 2024

Fidel Ten Days Before the End of the World—The Universe Rather

With the world ending in ten days, a flamboyant gay worker endures a string of brutal jobs in a collapsing Manila, desperate to earn enough for a one-way bus ticket to freedom.

Production Manager

Pagpag

After their high school friend's wake, two best friends decide to 'pagpag' as they reconnect after five years.

Director

Juding

Ace, a closeted gay guy, learns Judo in a class full of straight men, channeling his inner Mulan.

Assistant Director

An Extra Super Special Mystery Film

An Extra Super Special Mystery Film · 2025

An Extra Super Special Mystery Film

A film by Kit Munsayac.

Assistant Director

Papa's Coding Day

Papa's Coding Day · 2025

Papa's Coding Day

In a small rural town, 9-year-old Gelo comes up with a plan to earn enough money to buy his tricycle-driver father a day off—so he can watch Gelo perform a poem written just for him at the school’s poetry contest.

Associate Producer

Q.I.A.

MovieComedyAction

Film students Queenie, Izzie, and Angie encounter a masked man named Masculado who threatens to distort every film there is into his vision of queer cinema—one that only features masc-for-masc BLs. Using their powers, the trio must stop Masculado before he distorts cinema for good!

Assistant Director

to drown a fish

to drown a fish · 2024

to drown a fish

To cope with his mother’s death, Anton, a graduating college student, adopts a pet fish - only to slowly discover how his grief and loneliness causes his emotions to grow more intense as strange fishlike traits appear around his body.

Art Direction

huhumcrediTT

huhumcrediTT · 2023

MovieComedyDrama

Struggling to pay for his 16-year-old daughter’s laptop, a conscientious father applies for a product loan purchase after getting convinced by a plausible saleslady in a very unusual IT retail shop.

Associate Producer

Tomorrow, To Feel

Tomorrow, To Feel · 2025

Tomorrow, To Feel

In late 2040s Manila, Wax and Phil’s dying relationship is shaken by a family member's transient arrival. As they accommodate this estrangement, they find a final push to retrace an old desire—to feel.

Production Manager

Sa Puting Dingding, Tayo'y Mananatili

Sa Puting Dingding, Tayo'y Mananatili · 2024

Sa Puting Dingding, Tayo'y Mananatili

Annie must memorize a poem for school declamation and her grandmother, a former teacher, Nanay Bernadette helps her with her performance. But as Annie struggles to remember the poem, Nanay Bernadette's painful memories gradually resurface, causing the two to come to terms with their shared emotional burden.

Gaffer

In Case I Forget You

In Case I Forget You · 2026

In Case I Forget You

MovieDramaFamily

A man struggles to recollect the memories that he shared with his estranged father as he travels back to see him for the last time. In his journey, he confronts a fragmented yet important past that makes him question if he can trust his own memories.

Associate Producer

if tomorrow never comes

if tomorrow never comes · 2024

if tomorrow never comes

MovieDramaRomance

40 years after having to marry a white man, Angie is deported and reunites with her ex, Badine. As they revisit the places buried by urbanization, they unearth the past and rekindle their love.

Production Manager