Roland Cartagena (b. 1998, Zamboanga) is an emerging Filipino filmmaker based in Metro Manila, Philippines. He studied at the University of the Philippines Film Institute and completed his bachelor’s degree at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. 

Primarily working with short form, Cartagena’s practice spans cinema, animation, and moving image-making. His works, bound together by an emphasis on concept, imagery, and experimentation, deal with wide-ranging subjects interpreted in ways that reframe the familiar.

Besides his métier, Cartagena’s passion for cinema bleeds into related endeavors such as film research and programming.