CICLOPE Asia Pacific 2026 Director of the Year.

Patrick Fileti is a filmmaker drawn to the emotional texture of real life. His films move between documentary and fiction, capturing moments that feel observed rather than constructed.

Born in Italy, raised in Spain and now based in Australia, Patrick spent much of his life between cultures, people and places. He learned early to observe before participating. That instinct never left him.

A background in editing deepened it further, teaching him at close range what audiences actually feel, and what they don't.

Across commercials, documentary and narrative, he is trying to solve the same problem: find the emotional truth first and build everything else around that.

He holds a Titanium and Grand Prix Cannes Lion for WWF’s Earth Hour. His Coca-Cola film was inducted into MoMA in New York and the Clio Hall of Fame. His documentary Inferno won Best Short Film at the Academy Award-qualifying Palm Springs International Film Festival and premiered on Nowness.