Talent Guide
MG Evangelista
- Discipline:Writer/Director
- Program Year:Fast Track 2024, Project Involve 2019, Screenwriting Lab 2024
Bio
MG Evangelista is a Filipino American writer-director. Evangelista’s work spans narrative, commercial and documentary filmmaking, exploring themes of identity, sexuality, power dynamics and love. Their debut feature, Burning Well, is in development and has been supported by Tribeca, Array, TorinoFilmLab and the SFFilm Rainin Grant. The feature is based on their award-winning short film Fran This Summer, which played in over 30 festivals, including Sundance. Evangelista was a recipient of the United States Artist Fellowship and Film Independent’s Project Involve and is currently a directing participant in the AFI DWW+ program.
Current Project
Burning WellLogline
In a re-imagining of the Prodigal Son story, on receiving news of his mother’s illness, a young trans man returns home to mend complicated relationships and rediscover what love and family really mean.