Directing

Bryle Mikkoel Ilagan

Born May 9, 2001 · Manila, Philippines (age 25)

From Bacoor, Cavite, BRYLE MIKKOEL ILAGAN is a film student at the UP Film Institute. As an enthusiastic learner of film production and scholarship about cinema outside the mainstream, his interests include film sound, editing, documentary, experimental cinema, and anything that can merge all four.

Known For

Pagitan

Jio, a gay man living with HIV, returns to his home province where friendship, love, and small-town judgment intertwine in his quiet search for acceptance and belonging.

Dead Air

Dead Air · 2026

On the anniversary of her renowned musician sister's death, a young radio presenter revisits her unreleased demo tapes in the studio for a documentary and finds herself haunted by the guilt of her past sins. Based on 'The Raven' and 'The Tell-tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe.

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.

CALLING 84843

CALLING 84843 · 2025

Set in the late 2000s, a payphone booth at an all-girls Catholic school stands witness to the intimate performance of its callers.

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A girl attempts to go back to her normal routine after a recent messy breakup with her boyfriend. However, her past keeps intruding on the present in the form of an unanswered phone call.

Halikana

Halikana · 2025

MovieRomanceDrama

Estranged friends Kia and Maria face an unexpected reunion in the chapel of their old all-girls' Catholic school, where they are forced to redress feelings left unspoken in their mutual fixations on the Virgin Mary.

Scytoscoscia

Scytoscoscia · 2024

a film by Cis De Luna

Concrete Conflicts

Concrete Conflicts · 2024

Concrete Conflicts

MovieDocumentary

A short experimental documentary on the loss of urban spaces and the fight to reclaim them as pedestrians, commuters, and PUV drivers face a transport crisis in the Philippines.

Filmography

Sort

Pagitan

Jio, a gay man living with HIV, returns to his home province where friendship, love, and small-town judgment intertwine in his quiet search for acceptance and belonging.

Boom Operator

Dead Air

Dead Air · 2026

On the anniversary of her renowned musician sister's death, a young radio presenter revisits her unreleased demo tapes in the studio for a documentary and finds herself haunted by the guilt of her past sins. Based on 'The Raven' and 'The Tell-tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe.

Sound Recordist

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.

Boom Operator

CALLING 84843

CALLING 84843 · 2025

Set in the late 2000s, a payphone booth at an all-girls Catholic school stands witness to the intimate performance of its callers.

Sound Recordist

bz...

A girl attempts to go back to her normal routine after a recent messy breakup with her boyfriend. However, her past keeps intruding on the present in the form of an unanswered phone call.

Director

Halikana

Halikana · 2025

MovieRomanceDrama

Estranged friends Kia and Maria face an unexpected reunion in the chapel of their old all-girls' Catholic school, where they are forced to redress feelings left unspoken in their mutual fixations on the Virgin Mary.

Sound Designer

Scytoscoscia

Scytoscoscia · 2024

a film by Cis De Luna

Boom Operator

Concrete Conflicts

Concrete Conflicts · 2024

Concrete Conflicts

MovieDocumentary

A short experimental documentary on the loss of urban spaces and the fight to reclaim them as pedestrians, commuters, and PUV drivers face a transport crisis in the Philippines.

Director

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!

Script Consultant

Obsessions, Compulsions

Obsessions, Compulsions · 2023

Obsessions, Compulsions

A two-minute experimental film visualizing my daily encounters with OCD — rhythmic and dissonant ones alike.

Writer

21st Birthday

21st Birthday · 2024

Three former high school best friends reunite four years later in college. Their short reunion grows tenser as they recall something from their past.

Director

KNL at Dawn

KNL at Dawn · 2024

MovieDocumentary

Barangay Krus na Ligas in the wee hours of dawn, slowly waking up from its slumber.

Director