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.

 

Playing with cinematic language and subverting narrative tropes, Evangelista captures people and places with poetry and pop. Featured on Hulu, at the Brooklyn Museum, and in i-D Magazine, their body of work includes VR dramedy Water Melts, supported by Tribeca and Google, La Gloria, a Project Involve produced short, and an HBO Ibero-American Award Finalist and the documentary They Call Me Suki, about legendary AAPI activist Suki Terada Ports. 

 

A 2022 fellow for the DGA and AICP's Commercial Directors Diversity Program (CDDP), Evangelista has helmed commercial films for Jeep, Gucci, GLAAD, and The Asian American Foundation. Evangelista received their MFA in Directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and goes by the nickname Grace.