Animation · Family · Central Visayas
The Mapmaker's Daughter
Every island has a name. Some she made up.
- 2026
- 9 min
- English
- Subtitles: Filipino, Cebuano
A girl draws the islands her father sailed to and invents the ones he never returned from.
The story
An animated short about a Cebu girl who maps every island her seafarer father describes in his letters, and the island she draws when the letters stop.
Credits
- Director
- Rina Ong
- Writer
- Rina Ong
- Animation
- Mika Yap
- Editor
- Yuri Torres
- Music
- Kat Del Rosario
- Cast
- Paolo Lim, Lia Villareal, Dom Gonzales
Details
- Runtime
- 9 minutes
- Rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Subtitles
- Filipino, Cebuano
- Made in
- Central Visayas
- Released
- May 20, 2026
The filmmaker
Rina OngDirector, Animator · Cebu City, Central Visayas · making films since 2017Rina makes films for children that adults end up watching twice. She draws, folds, and photographs most of her own production design.Part of
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