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 International 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

☁ Diaspora Shorts / Diaspora Film Festival 2026

☁ Live-Action Asia International Competition / Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2026

☁ Shorts 1: Thicker Than Water / Diwa Filipino Film Festival of Seattle 2026

☁ Shorts Program 1: Thicker Than Water / Diwa Filipino Film Festival 2026

☁ Global Short Official Selection / Jakarta Film Week 2026

☁ Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival 2026

☁ Shorts+ / SeaShorts Film Festival 2026

☁ Las Vegas Filipino Short Film Festival

Awards:
☁ National Board of Review Student Grant 2025

☁ Rolling Stone Philippines’ “The Best Filipino Films of 2025”

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.

☁ EnVi Media: Observing the In-Between: Margarita Mina on Filmmaking and “Baby Fat”