Filmmaker and poet Giancarlo Abrahan is a graduate of the University of Philippines Film Institute. His most notable screenplays are Hannah Espia’s Transit and Whammy Alcazaren’s sci-fi feature Islands. For the multi-award winning film Transit, he and Espia were awarded the Philippines’ prestigious Golden Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay. For Sparks (2014), his first feature film as writer and director, he won the Balanghai Trophies for Best Director (New Breed) and Best Screenplay (New Breed) at the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
