Maricel Lopez Pagulayan

Maricel Pagulayan is a first-generation Filipino-American whose family immigrated to the United States when her father enlisted in the US Navy.

Her life experience has been shaped by her family’’s moves to diverse communities throughout the United States and Southeast Asia. Pagulayan began a career in radio journalism while studying Political Science at U.C. Berkeley. Trained at the Pacifica Radio Network’’s KPFA through a program geared toward bringing women and minorities into broadcasting, she went on to produce documentary and dramatic features that garnered awards from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting and distributed through National Public

Radio (NPR). While based in San Francisco, she went on to produce acclaimed international multicultural theater productions in Europe, Canada and the

US.

In 1987, Ms. Pagulayan moved to Los Angeles to produce dance and theater works at the Los Angeles Theatre and Japan America Theater. While in Los

Angeles, she also served as a judging panelist for the California Arts Council for their multidisciplinary grants program.

In 1991, Pagulayan made the decision to move into the medium of film and completed an MFA at the American Film Institute. In 1993, the faculty of AFI nominated Pagulayan to the National Endowment of the Arts to create what has now become President Clinton’’s Arts Corps. She served her residency at Alaska’’s Indigenous Broadcast Center in Kodiak, Alaska. Since finishing her Masters degree in 1993, she has produced the award winning independent festival short, DEATH IN VENICE, CA which garnered a domestic theatrical release and video distribution with First Run Features.

Pagulayan’’s broadcast experience includes a two-year stint as the Director of Production and Development of APPLAUSE, one of the first digital

networks to be launched under the aegis of Tele-Communications, Inc (TCI). She also delved into the world of multimedia by producing a Web site for

SIRE/Discovery Records, a wholly owned Warner Music Group label in 1994.

Her television producing credits include WOMEN: STORIES OF PASSION, a challenging and imaginative series for Showtime Networks in 1995. Pagulayan has freelanced as a Line Producer/UPM/post supervisor for many independent feature film companies and has produced commercials for clients such

as Nestle, InterPlay, Nintendo and Panasonic. Recently, she produced two indie features: STRAIGHT RIGHT which has recently been picked by foreign distributor Curb Entertainment, and MACARTHUR PARK, with actor/director Billy Wirth, which has recently been accepted into dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival.