Minerva Navasca
Director, Producer, Writer
Minerva Navasca is an award winning Filipina-Canadian director, exploring stories of cultural dysphoria and girlhood with intimate specificity. She grounds her films in her own experiences, stating “I want to make films about subjects that make me uncomfortable”. And so, she delves into perspectives steeped in anxiety and internalized shame, using the medium to interrogate the socio-political roots of these beliefs. In sharing these narratives openly, she hopes to stir empathetic discourse and self-compassion within audiences.
She is a 2022 & 2024 TIFF Next Wave Alumni, and her films have been awarded in festivals such as the 2024 BFI Futures Film Festival. In 2024, she collaborated with the Canadian Walk of Fame and NBC Universal in their Future Storytellers program, an initiative celebrating diversity and inclusivity in media.
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award winning narrative & documentary short films
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I create work that showcase the depth of human experience. With a background in narrative filmmaking, I elevate projects by crafting fully-realized worlds and nuanced, lived-in characters. No matter the medium, story is at the core.
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