Antoinette Jadaone is an award-winning film director and producer, with credits including That Thing Called Tadhana (2014), Alone/Together (2019) and Fan Girl (2020), the last of which swept the board at the Metro Manila Film Festival, including Best Director. In a bid to gain creative freedom over the films she makes, she paired up with filmmaker Dan Villegas in 2017 to start production company Project 8 Projects, through which she also hopes to support other Filipino storytellers.