Cycle

Sophie Casasola is an advocacy student-filmmaker from Far Eastern University taking Bachelor of Arts in Communication under the Digital Cinema track. She is currently the Associate Creative Director of the premier film organization of the said university, the FEU Film Society. As a cinematographer, most of the productions she has worked for acquired selection and recognition in local and international film festivals such as “Press Pause and Play” (2019) in Viddsee Juree Philippines and Piling Obrang Vidyo XV, “Eklipse” in Ika-32 Gawad Alternatibo; “Siklo” (2020) in Video Home Festival and “Naraniag A Bulan” (2020) in which she was granted with the Best Cinematography Award for both of the festivals.

She made her directorial and writing debut in 2020 with her short films focusing on human conditions from the margins: “Ang Sigaw sa Hardin ng Digma” (2020) that bagged Best Cineminuto Short Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Audience Choice and Best Application of Theories in Cinema during the July 27 awarding ceremonies in Far Eastern University’s Department of Communication’s Likhang Mulat; “Siklo” (2020) and “Sa Ibayo ng Pagtangis” co-directed by Le Anne Flores and Francis Tavas also marked its nominations and awards from Video Home Festival, Gawad Balangaw, Cinemata and Silipt@Lente’s Realifilm film festivals.

Casasola aims to advocate for the marginalized sectors through marginal echoes in film and street photography, as she believes that resistance through cinema is an ideology-carrying instrument of immense power to challenge the status quo that contributes in attaining social awareness and collective change.