Actor

Karl Maalab Paredes

Directing

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Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

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Movies: 8Series: 0Crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 3702017

Known for: Directing

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2022 - 2026

Years active: 5

Also known as

Karl Maalab Paredes • Alab Paredes

Other jobs

Director (5)Associate Producer (1)Location Assistant (1)

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Biography

KARL MAALAB PAREDES is a filmmaker based in Quezon City and a student at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. His experimental documentary Concrete Conflicts (2025) is streaming on Cinemata, and he served as Director of Photography and editor for the Cheeky Things music video “Bones,” named one of 2024’s standout Filipino music videos by Rolling Stone Philippines. He is also the founder and managing director of SineSoirée, an independent community-driven film programming initiative that cultivates collaborative spaces for filmmakers to exhibit, share, and discuss their work beyond traditional exhibition circuits. Karl Maalab’s work explores the tensions of power and the quiet violences embedded in everyday life, often bending form and genre to make the invisible visible.

Movies

Movie credits linked with Karl Maalab Paredes.