Hannah Espia-Farbová is an award-winning Filipino writer-director based in Central Europe, working across independent cinema and international television.
Her debut feature, Transit (2013), had its international premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, where it received a Special Mention in the New Currents section. Selected as the Philippines’ official submission for the 86th Academy Awards®, Variety praised the film for its “gracefully directed, inventively edited” storytelling. In 2017, it screened at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York as part of A New Golden Age: Contemporary Philippine Cinema. In 2019, Pinoy Rebyu ranked it No. 11 on its list of the 100 Best Filipino Films Directed by Women. Espia received the Gawad Urian Award for Best Director (Philippine Film Critics Awards) for the film.
Her television credits include episodes of Almost Paradise (Amazon Freevee), The Ark (Syfy), and The Librarians: The Next Chapter (TNT). She is currently developing The Fence, a Philippines–Slovakia co-production.