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Kayla Abuda Galang

Kayla Abuda Galang

Known for

Directing

Birthplace

Olongapo City, Zambales, Philippines

Biography

Kayla Abuda Galang is a filmmaker based in Austin, Texas, drawing from the humor and details of her communities, surroundings, memory, and the television that raised her. Her short film, When You Left Me On That Boulevard, won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, received the Ani ng Dangal from the National Commission for Culture and Arts of the Philippines, and joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a voting member in the Short Films Branch. She works as a video producer at the University of Texas.

Best known work

Rent Free

Rent Free

2024
When You Left Me on That Boulevard

When You Left Me on That Boulevard

2023
Learning Tagalog with Kayla

Learning Tagalog with Kayla

2021
Joan On The Phone

Joan On The Phone

2016
Papa

Papa

2013
Shirt Orders with Rory Blank

Shirt Orders with Rory Blank

An Ongoing List of Things Found in the Library Book Drop, Usually Being Used as Bookmarks

An Ongoing List of Things Found in the Library Book Drop, Usually Being Used as Bookmarks

2025

Filmography

  1. TBA

    Shirt Orders with Rory Blank

    Editor

  2. 2025

  3. 2024

    Rent Free

    as Evie

  4. 2023

  5. 2021

    Learning Tagalog with Kayla

    as Kayla, Editor, Cinematography, Colorist, Director, Writer

  6. 2016

    Joan On The Phone

    Editor, Director, Writer

  7. 2013

    Papa

    Director, Editor, Cinematography

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