Filipina filmmaker and visual artist living in Mexico City.
Aiess Alonso (b. 1989) is a filmmaker, colorist, and visual artist. She is an alumna of the University of the Philippines Film Institute and a film directing fellow of the Asian Film Academy at the Busan International Film Festival. Alonso is a member of EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs).
Her travels have led her to forge friendships, foster connections, and contribute to emergent film industries. Moving from her native Philippines to Nepal and then Myanmar, her projects have gained recognition in international film festivals, film project markets, and ateliers such as Cannes, Locarno, Fribourg, Busan, Singapore, and Clermont-Ferrand. Between 2014 to 2016, Alonso co-pioneered and curated the Asian Shorts section of the Binisaya Film Festival in the Philippines.
Her short films “Last Strike” and “Habitat” were exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Busan, South Korea for their Cinemedia program, Climate of Cinema: Isle, the Planet, and Postcontact Zone (April-August, 2023).
She is now based in Mexico where she is actively working on her creative projects, as well as, pursuing project management in the web3 ecosystem.