Apa Agbayani is a Filipino writer-director who makes films and music videos. Apa was one of the recipients of NewFestโs New Voices Filmmaker Grant in 2024. His short โAbutan man tayo ng house lights (When the house lights come on)โ received the QCShorts production grant and premiered at the QCinema International Film Festival in the Philippines in 2023, later playing NewFest 36, Queer East and LAAPFF. Apaโs previous credits include โSomewhere all the boys are birdsโ (2023), which premiered at NewFest 35 in New York, and โWe kept warmโ (2021), which was released online via Tarzeer Pictures. He has two forthcoming short films in postproduction, the Philippine gothic โIs this desire?โ and the situationship mini-doc โLaundry day lovers.โ