Kristine Gerolaga

Kristine Gerolaga is a Filipina American actor and filmmaker whose mission is to tell stories that center those who are often excluded from the mainstream media. She hails from Vallejo, a town made famous by the Zodiac Killer, which is most likely why she is so obsessed with the darkest parts of the human mind. She’s always listening to paranormal podcasts, so please tell her your real life ghost stories. Kristine’s first love was color guard where she spent over a decade performing and teaching synchronized dance choreography and dangerous stunts with her team while enduring countless injuries. Resilience! Her dream is to make a Bay Area color guard version of Friday Night Lights. 

Kristine currently resides in Los Angeles where she writes and directs genre films, drama, and a ton of sketch comedy (but honestly, she loves it all) with her longtime filmmaking collaborator Steven Krimmel. She is critically acclaimed: Vulture called her a “creator to watch.” She was awarded “Most Spirited” by the Vallejo High School Proud Heritage Marching Band four years in a row. And an Airbnb host called her “so sweet, very clean, and an ideal guest.”

Notable achievements:

• Selected as a 2024 Sundance January Screenwriters Lab Fellow with my Filipino horror feature film LAMOK, which is also the recipient of the Sundance Institute Horror Fellowship!

• Selected as a recipient for the 2023 Sundance Institute Artist Accelerator and The Asian American Foundation’s Collab Scholarship

• My latest short film MOSQUITO LADY premiered at the 2023 Beyond Fest, followed by the 2023 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival where it won Best Effects in the shorts competition, and the 2023 Chicago International Film Festival! Find out where it’s screening next here.

• Selected as a recipient for the 2023 Spring Grant Recipient for The Future of Film is Female’s Short Film Fund! We were awarded a post-production color services grant, courtesy of Nice Shoes for my latest short film MOSQUITO LADY!

• Selected as a recipient for the 2022 Sundance Institute Uprise Grant to support the development of my horror feature film LAMOK.

• The United Nations Population Fund invited A PERIOD DRAMA to be a part of Brazil’s 2022 Luz, Câmara, Menstruação film screening and discussion about menstrual dignity around the world.

• CONCEALER received an Honorable Mention at WhoHaha’s 2022 WhoHaHalloween Comedy Festival of Horrors.

• Her horror micro short OVERTIME co-written with Steven Krimmel is one of the 13 official selections (and awarded an Extraordinary Selection!) for NYX Horror Collective’s 2022 13 MINUTES OF HORROR Film Festival, which streamed on SHUDDER!

• Her horror micro short THE BYSTANDER was one of the 13 official selections for NYX Horror Collective’s 2021 inaugural 13 MINUTES OF HORROR Film Festival, which streamed on SHUDDER!

• 2019: Selected for a filmmaker mentorship and made her pyramid scheme horror short Concealer in partnership with ATTN: and Amazon Fire TV. Concealer has been nominated for and won multiple awards. You can see Concealer on ALTER.

• Her micro-series @starringkristine was awarded a grant by The Future of Film is Female!

• Two of her @starringkristine micro shorts were chosen as finalists for Toronto International Film Festival’s 2018 TIFFxInstagram Shorts Festival.

• Top 15 Semi-Finalist for Justin Lin and YOMYOMF’s 2016 Asian American Filmmaker Initiative: Interpretations 2.0

• Branded content/commercial clients: PRETTYLITTER, CASPER.

• She was also quoted or had her work featured on WhoHaha, THR, Inc., BuzzFeed,  DirectedByWomen.com, and ATTN:, ALTER, Rappler, and Amazon Prime/Fire TV, Shudder, FANGORIA, and Vulture.

We successfully raised 123% of our goal taking us straight into pre-production for our anthology THROUGH THE BLINDS! Notable filmmakers we love supported our campaign like Mark Duplass and Madeleine Olnek!