Local music producer-turned-New York-based independent filmmaker Maria Diane Ventura is at it again. After sweeping several awards around the globe in 2016 for her genre-bending directorial debut “Mulat” (Jake Cuenca, Ryan Eigenmann and Loren Burgos)—among them directorial and acting citations from the International Film Festival in Manhattan, a Best Narrative Feature conferment at the World Cinema Festival in Brazil, and an “A” rating from her native country’s Cinema Evaluation Board—the talented Filipina remains unflagging as a promising new voice in world independent cinema.