Clarice Cua is a Filipino-Chinese filmmaker born and raised in Manila, Philippines. Cua’s works explore themes of human connections, individualism, and cultural identity. A sensitive writer, and passionately creative. She strives for service and creative collaboration while seeking experiences to sharpen her artistic craft. Her first Filipino-Chinese short film, First Letter To My Dead Grandmother (2021) was screened internationally online, and her second, Leftover Words (2022), was her undergraduate thesis at De La-Salle College of Saint Benilde where she majored in film and specialized in screenwriting. Currently, she is writing more about the Filipino-Chinese community and hopes to represent the authenticity of its cultural identity in world cinema one day. Her fascination with trees explores more of her experimental creativity in both film and photography.