Film Projects
Artist/Filmmaker – Panay Diamonds film as part of PHitherto IV: "Lamentations" at Project Space, Pilipinas Lucban, Quezon, Philippines 2021.
Film Director – Ati Ako, Indigenous People's Month, Cinematheque Iloilo and Panublion Museum, Roxas City, Philippines 2021.
Filmmaker – Panay Diamonds: Asin Edukomentary’, Museum of Philippine Economic History, Iloilo, Philippines (The vanishing heritage of artisanal sal making of tultul and budbud masters), 2020
‘Filmmaker in Focus’ with her documentary and experimental films at CineKasimanwa Film Festival 2015, which was screened previously in Sine Rehiyon and Cinemalaya.
Filmmaker - Music for change or spare change or social change, New York University, 2012
Visiting Resident Artist/Filmmaker – (JENESYS) Programme for Artists and Designers by Japan Foundation 2008/2009 as part of Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF) in partnership with Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. As resident artist/filmmaker Rosa mounted Yellow Bridge that was shown in Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in collaboration with local organic farmers of Shirataka and Yamagata.
Filmmaker for Culture of Remembrance Project: Tell Me a Story, Mr. Cloud, 2006, sponsored by Patrimoine Sans Frontières, France.
Film Director for animation films for children – films won ‘Best of Earth Vision’ at the 18th Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival, screened in Tokyo, Japan, 2004.
My natural curiosity and love of the spectacles of the chaos, noise and nuances of the streets compelled me to investigate the phenomenon of public performance and how artists engage these spaces and the public. I discovered Music Under New York Program (MUNY) in 2011. The streets of New York introduced me to an inspirational and diverse group of musicians who earn an honest living or have the sheer joy of sharing generously their world-class music and compositions. This is to say thank you to all the geniuses of the streets and subways and to pay homage to the great cultural heritage of New York as a mecca of multiversity and street performance.
A spontaneous music and poetry experimental film featuring artist friends visiting me on Camiguin Island. As part of my Ovarian Chant project, my poetry was transformed into musical poetry with music composed by Waway Saway and Bebot Cervantes, which made us produce an album in one night without practice. It was the celebration of the moment. While I am not able to read musical notes with zero training in music, I discovered that my love for visual cues became my door to experimental film while living on the island.
A poetic inquiry into the river community as a heritage village as they stay afloat with the rise and fall of the water currents and development. A film by Rosa Zerrudo exhibited during the Hugot Project art exhibition CineKasimanwa Film Festival Extended program at Cinematheque Iloilo with FAMO artists.
(In Hiligaynun Visayan language) A COVID-19 pandemic psychosocial support "to introduce ways we can explore mindfulness and indigeneity through culturally meaningful mandala-making. Imbuing everyday items with meaning can become visual expression of healing, gratitude, peace and well-being. Slowing down and focusing on creating an intentional mandala or assemblage alone or together with others can help calm the mind and reduce anxieties and stresses." (Text from Kularts site).
Asin Edukomentary tells the bitters sweet story of vanishing Panay artisanal salt traditions and the memories and the real struggle of salt families. The visual experience of this unique salt tradition made into a film pays tribute with deep respect to the artisans in the rural villages in the Visayas, Philippines.
This is an original choreography work of Deasylina da Ary and Agung Gunawan inspired by the East Java dance movements, which evolved on an afternoon collaboration with young villages in Java.... We explored camera work, production design with the natural landscape, original score, and an improvised bamboo dolly with the organic participation of a local farmer. The film is co-directed and edited by Rosa Zerrudo.
visual poetry a testimony of heartbreak in South Korea
Land is life inspired from the traditional Talaandig song by Waway Saway... A puppet theater for young audiences in collaboration with NYU classmates
This music video docu-film evolved as a collaboration between Iloilo based artist/musicians Joon Claudio, PJ Zuluaga, Carren Evangelista, and Rosa Zerrudo as a lyrical interpretation of the Panay heritage with an interview with Dr Alicia Magos as the book author of Maaram.
Women tell their story as their voice and power… Women are back on their feet after Super Typhoon Yolanda… This short documentary film was created by the women of Tanuan, Leyte as a testimony to their stories of disaster, courage, survival, community solidarity, and resilience.
A revisit to a group of women in Tanauan showed extraordinary strength. Small efforts of ordinary women created a major ripple in community organizing. Women organizations such as DAMPA with support from the network of Huiarou Commission New York, have been doing community organizing in the area to strengthen a Disaster Risk Reduction For Resilience Program through the local organizing efforts, cooperation, and leadership skills of their own local women.
Walking the shores of the killer storm surge, you will meet women who braved the challenges to stand on their own feet even after the devastation of typhoon Yolanda. All of them lost their homes and many lost a husband. A source of living and playground for children the shores have slowly healed from its tragic memory. The women recounted the tragedy but fought with optimism to make a better life for their children. Life continues, as these women believe that they can build their families, houses, and lives anew.