Sari Lluch Dalena is an award-winning Filipino filmmaker and professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. She studied film at New York University, where she made experimental short films, and later directed Memories of a Forgotten War (2001), which screened as the closing film of a documentary series at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Her thesis film, Rigodon (2005), co-directed with filmmaker Keith Sicat, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival. Dalena has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the CCP 13 Artists Award and the Asian Cultural Fellowship. Her films include Ka Oryang, The Guerilla Is a Poet, Dahling Nick, Guerrera, and Cinemartyrs, for which she won Best Director at the 21st Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival in 2025.