BIO

Amyra Soriano is a Bay Area-based writer and filmmaker whose work explores culture, identity, and the layered experience of being human. She wrote and directed Miss Hot Mess, a short film about a twenty-something pageant girly navigating life between debauchery and high-glam. The film earned screenwriting accolades at Independent Shorts Awards and Script Awards LA, and screened at the Diwa Filipino Film Festival and the San Diego Filipino Film Festival. Her debut short, Between the Lines — a personal piece that explored home and the in-between moments of life — premiered at CAAMFest Forward in 2020 and later showed at SF IndieFest.

As a journalist, her published pieces have been featured in KQED, East Bay Express, and Hella Pinay. Professionally, she has worked with creative teams at The Filipino Channel (ABS-CBN), KQED, One Down, Make it Mariko, Red Cube Production, Betti Ono, and more — working behind the scenes producing, camera-in-hand, or editing. In 2019, she edited ABS-CBN's reimagined cut of On the Wings of Love for Amazon Prime and MYX. She was a Balay Kreative Kreative Growth Grantee in 2022 and an artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute in April. Earlier this year, she turned her lens inward, experimenting with acrylic on canvas. Her latest piece, Here, was featured in Rosebud Gallery’s summer show.