2025 Director's Reel // Derek Benig

Project EVO // 2024, Documentary // Director, Camera and Editor

Sinigang // 2022, Narrative Short Film // Director and Writer

Hiro's Pizza // 2021, Narrative Short Film // Director and Writer

Anniversary // 2024, Installation // Director and Editor

Magic & Stuff // 2024, Web Series // 8, Half-Hour Episodes // Director

A*POP for XO, Kitty // 2025, Long Form // Editor and Visual Effects

A*POP for Karate Kid: Legends // 2025 // Producer, Editor, Camera

A*POP for Gold Gala // 2025, Short Form // Editor

bio
Derek Benig is a Filipinx American director and screenwriter based in Los Angeles, California by way of SF, DC, Boulder and Boston. He is an alumni of Emerson College's Visual Media Arts program. By day he directs, produces, edits and shoots videos for A*POP.

His short film SINIGANG (2022) played at VC Film Fest, DisOrient, DCAPA, SAPFF, HAAPI Fest and SDFFF, among other film festivals between 2022 and 2023. 

Currently he is part of the inaugural cohort of Artists in Residence at the Visual Communications Archive where is he working on both community and personal film projects.

Bio photo by Pauline Yang