BABY FAT
11 mins. / 2025

Synopsis: When a stocky Filipino-American tween spills ketchup on a traditional heirloom dress, she must accompany her mother to the laundromat where her attempts to restore it only make her feel more displaced in her own skin.

Festivals / Screenings:
☁ QCShorts International / QCinema Film Festival 2025
☁ Wild Schools: Shorts and Conversation with Women and Gender-Queer Filmmakers in NYC / Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU
☁ Holding Half the Sky: A Women’s Month Film Screening / HYPERFOCUS PH
☁ Becoming: No Instructions Included/ CinemAsia Film Festival 2026
☁ In competition / Diaspora Film Festival 2026

Awards:
☁ Winner / National Board of Review Student Grant 2025
☁ The Best Filipino Films of 2025 / Rolling Stone Philippines

Press:
☁ 2025 National Board of Review Student Grants

☁ Rolling Stone Philippines - The Best Filipino Films of 2025

☁ Margarita Mina Named Recipient of NBR Student Grant

☁ SBU Film Student Earns National Recognition for Short Film ‘Baby Fat’

☁ “Baby Fat”: A Reflection on Great Endings.