Bianca Balbuena is a 31-year-old producer, writer, co-founder, and CEO of Epicmedia Productions Inc, a company that has produced over 25 feature films, including notable titles such as the Venice Film Festival 2009 Lion of the Future winner and Orrizonti Best Film "Engkwentro" by Pepe Diokno, and the Berlinale 2016 Silver Bear winner "A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery" by Lav Diaz.
As a young awardee of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) FIAPF Award for contribution to Asia Pacific cinema, Bianca has attended various prestigious film labs and programs, including Produire Au Sud, Rotterdam Producers Lab, Talent Campus Tokyo, Cannes' La Fabrique des Cinemas du Monde, EAVE Ties That Bind, and Berlinale Talent Project Market, where she won the ARTE Prize for her film "Above The Clouds", her first venture into French co-production.
Bianca has also mentored in film labs and served as a jury member at film festivals such as Fribourg and Durban, and was nominated for the Best Foreign Producer at the Madrid International Film Festival 2015.
Her next collaboration with Lav Diaz is his upcoming musical feature "The Season Of The Devil", which is set to premiere early next year. Throughout her career, Bianca has produced films that have premiered and won at numerous festivals, including Venice, Berlinale, San Sebastián, Toronto, Busan, Tokyo, Thessaloniki, Rotterdam, Taipei Golden Horse, Sydney, and Karlovy Vary.
In the Philippines, Bianca is known for producing Antoinette Jadaone's "That Thing Called Tadhana", which became one of the highest-grossing independent films in Philippine box office history on a production budget of 60,000 USD. She is currently producing Bradley Liew's "Motel Acacia", which was part of the 2017 Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab and has been supported by BiFan's NAFF IT Project and EAVE Ties That Bind.
Liew's debut feature "Singing In Graveyards" premiered at the Venice Film Festival Critics Week 2016 and was chosen to participate at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2017, along with another film she produced, "Those Long Haired Nights".
Bianca's mission is to strengthen collaborations within the region and help deserving directors bring their films to the global scale.
