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Gerry Balasta
Gerry is currently based in New York and was born and raised in Manila. After years of working with children with disabilities as an Occupational Therapist, Gerry pursued a career in writing and filmmaking—a life-long passion. He completed courses in film production and screenwriting at the New York University-SCPS. A few of his short films have played in festivals in the US. Gerry has written several screenplays, two of which were finalists for the 26th and 27th AAIFF Screenwriting Competition.
In 2007, Gerry shot his first feature film, The Mountain Thief. The film is currently in post-production where he is in the final stages of editing. The film was selected to the prestigious 2008 IFP Narrative Rough Cut Lab. The film will be completed in 2009.
Gerry has been a life-long boxing fan, from the time Muhammad Ali went to Manila. His interest in writing about boxing is shedding light on the human-interest aspect of the sport and with his background as a therapist, the kinesiology of boxing.
He is also currently working on his next feature film, THE SILENCE OF MANILA and a few screenplays about boxing. You can find out more on his work at www.mountainthief.com.
In December of 2004, Gerry went to the Philippines, where he was born and raised and instituted an acting workshop open to the residents of the Philippine’s largest garbage-collecting town. Graduates of the workshop acted in his first feature film,
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