Geia De Vera, a Quezon City-based cinematographer, is celebrated for her vibrant and meticulous storytelling that highlights women in sports, subcultures, and diasporic narratives. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, she earned the Loyola Schools Award for the Arts in Visual Arts: Cinematography in 2023. Her work includes Arvin Belarmino’s Radikals (2024), which premiered at Cannes' 63rd Semaine de La Critique and toured global festivals like Winterthur, Curtocircuíto, and Red Sea. She also shot Jake Muñoz's The Boxer and the Astronaut (2023), which debuted at the VC Film Fest in Los Angeles, and Diana Galang’s The Water We Swim In (2023), an advocacy film for the Active Vista Human Rights Film Festival. Selected as one of 24 fellows for the CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy, De Vera received the ARRI Award for her cinematography on Errands (2024) at the Busan International Film Festival. Currently, she is collaborating on Jill Sachs' folk-horror short Taga and Arvin Belarmino's debut feature RIA, a Cannes La Résidence project and Sorfond Award winner.
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