After being a schoolteacher for 10 years, Alemberg Ang shifted into a career of film producing. Having travelled extensively to festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Locarno and Busan, his films seek to give cultural minorities a voice in world cinema. He works with filmmakers mostly on their first and second features, and his filmography includes Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir (2025, Cannes Main Competition), Chan Sze-Wei’s 10s Across the Borders (2025, Busan IFF, Wide Angle Documentary Competition), and JT Trinidad’s Honey, My Love, So Sweet (2025, Locarno FF Short Film Competition). Ang has participated at the Rotterdam Lab (2012), Berlinale Talents (2013, 2021), Locarno’s Open Doors (2019), La Fabrique Cinema du Monde (2021), IDFA Producers Connection (2021) and EAVE Producers Workshop (2022).

Accolades

Chan Sze-Wei and Alemberg Ang and Tan Si En and Yasmin C. Rams and Sophia Sim
Best Documentary Film, 2025

Chan Sze-Wei and Alemberg Ang and Tan Si En and Yasmin C. Rams and Sophia Sim

Best Documentary Film, 2025

Chan Sze-Wei and Alemberg Ang and Tan Si En and Yasmin C. Rams and Sophia Sim

10s Across the Borders

If the world doesn’t accept you and your kind, trailblaze a world that does. Inspired by the Black and Latinx underground Ballroom culture of New…

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Films

10s Across the Borders

10s Across the Borders

Philippines, Singapore, Germany

10s Across the Borders

If the world doesn’t accept you and your kind, trailblaze a world that does. Inspired by the Black and Latinx underground Ballroom culture of New…

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The Portrait
2017

The Portrait (Ang Larawan)

Philippines
2017

The Portrait (Ang Larawan)

Set in Old Manila before World War II, this musical film tells the plight of Candida and Paula Marasigan, spinster daughters of painter Don Lorenzo…

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