Her work as a documentary director, editor or cinematographer has screened at festivals, online, broadcast, and on Air Canada inflight entertainment systems. In 2016, she was selected as 1 of 8 emerging filmmakers from across Canada to participate in the Hot Docs documentary channel Doc Accelerator Program. She is currently developing new projects in Vancouver and her hometown of San José, Costa Rica.// Joella Cabalu is a Filipino-Canadian Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker with an Art History degree from the University of British Columbia (2008) and a graduate of the Documentary Film Production Program at Langara College (2013). In 2015, Cabalu delivered her first broadcast documentary It Runs in the Family as a producer, director and writer. The film had it’s hometown premiere at the 2016 Vancouver Queer Film Festival, winning the OUTtv People’s Choice Award for Best Feature.