BIO

Amyra Soriano is a Bay Area-based writer and filmmaker whose work sits at the crossroads of culture, identity, and the layered experience of being human. She wrote and directed Miss Hot Mess, a short film following a twenty-something pageant girly navigating life between debauchery and high-glam. The film earned screenwriting accolades and screened at the Diwa Filipino Film Festival and San Diego Filipino Film Festival. Her debut short, Between the Lines, premiered at CAAMFest Forward in 2020 and later screened at SF IndieFest.

As a journalist, her published pieces have appeared in KQED, East Bay Express, and Hella Pinay. Professionally, she has collaborated with creative teams at The Filipino Channel, KQED, Make it Mariko, One Down, and more—working behind the scenes producing, camera-in-hand, or editing. Lately, she's turned her lens inward, experimenting with painting. Her latest piece, Here, will be featured in Rosebud Gallery’s summer show opening July 3.