Kenken Nuyad
Acting
Biography
Kenken Nuyad is a Filipino actor. His most notable works as a former child actor were Liway (2018), School Service (2018), Sol Searching (2018), Ani (2019), Magikland (2020), Bekis On The Run (2021), and Resbak (2021).
Known For
The Slums
The Slums is a 2019 comedy mockumentary film about an urban poor family terrorized by a documentary crew that promised to help them.
Dalaginding na si Isang
The film follows the story of a young girl named Isang on her first day of menstruation.
Dark Is the Night
Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs when their son goes missing.
Payback
Chased by police, bike thief Isaac asks his boss for help but gets the cold shoulder. He then plans vengeance against the boss... Payback depicts a man caught in a slum's crime ring.
Gumamelas Are Still Red
When a rural village in the Philippines starts to vanish, leaving only carabaos as witnesses, a child plans out a journey to locate his lost father, revealing a secret that defies belief.
Paglipay
An Aeta from Baytan village in Zambales makes a living from cutting down and burning of trees and hunting on the foothills of Mt. Pinatubo.
A Country in Moving Pictures
An aging Caucasian man chats with his young Filipina lover only to witness the harsh social ills and injustices around the life of the young Filipina.
Liway
The true story of a young mother who uses story-telling to protect her child from the reality of growing up in prison and the difficult life she endured.
School Service
Maya was walking home in her province when the service stops beside her and offers her to hitch. She innocently takes the ride to reach home faster. To Maya’s horror, the service did not stop at her place. She soon realizes she has been taken, along with the other kids who are inside the crammed school service. Soon, Maya finds herself hours and hours away from home, in an unfamiliar land -Manila. By dusk, the children are dropped off along the national highway to work by begging for alms. Forced to struggle with the harsh conditions of street life, Maya continues to hope for her dreams and chase for her freedom that may never happen.
Sol Searching
This is a story of Sol, a farmer-teacher in a public school near Nueva Ecija. Following an unexpected death, without any family to organize a burial, a friend and former student decides to carry her coffin traveling to different places, similar to the stations of the cross.
Filmography
as Bok's Brother
as Bochok
as Balong
as Kid
as JekJek
as Boy
as Dakip