Mikhail Red began making short films when he was 15 years old, including Kamera (2008), Harang (2009), Hazard (2010) and Inosensya (2011). Six years later he directed his micro-budget feature debut, Rekorder, about a once-professional cinematographer who compulsively records everything on his camcorder, only to capture a murder. It won five international awards including Best New Director at the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival. Mikhail's radically different second feature, Birdshot, was developed at various international project markets and was filmed on ten times the budget. The slow-burning ecological thriller won the Best Asian Feature Film Award at the 2016 Tokyo International Film Festival. Together with Birdshot producer Pamela L. Reyes, he is now developing Lost Dahlias, about a young housemaid faced with the twin horrors of martial law and her American employer, who she suspects is a serial killer. Later this year, Red shoots his third feature, Neomanila, a mother-and-son tale of the death squads committing extrajudicial killings in present-day Metro Manila.