Xady Chang

Biography

Xady Chang is a Filipino filmmaker whose work explores identity, belonging, guilt, and the masks people wear to survive. Having lived between the Philippines, Japan, and Australia, he is drawn to characters caught between cultures, social classes, and versions of themselves. Chang began his creative career as a photographer, exhibiting his work in two gallery exhibitions before turning his focus toward filmmaking. He began writing screenplays as a child and has since developed a body of work blending genre storytelling with deeply personal themes, using horror, humor, and suspense to examine alienation, family, ambition, and self-deception. Chang is developing a body of work that seeks to bring distinctly Filipino stories to a global audience. Through visually driven genre cinema and character-focused storytelling, he aims to create films that are both culturally specific and universally resonant.