MG Evangelista is a Filipino American writer-director. Evangelista’s work spans narrative, commercial, and documentary filmmaking, exploring themes of identity, power, and love. With a background in visual arts, Evangelista blends evocative imagery and drama with touches of levity. Their debut feature, Burning Well, is in development and has been supported by Tribeca, Array, 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.

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Playing with cinematic language and form, 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. Evangelista received their MFA in Writing and Directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and goes by the nickname Grace.