Billie and Emma is a 2018 Filipino drama film, directed by Samantha Lee. It is an LGBT coming-of-age story set in the mid-1990s, and is Lee's sophomore feature film. Synopsis Billie is a teenage girl who is sent from Manila to the remote town of St. Isidro to attend a Catholic girls school, where her father hopes she will learn not to be a lesbian. She lives with her aunt, who is also the religion teacher at the school, who instructs the girls on the sinfulness of homosexuality and abortion. Billie tries to fit in at her new school, hoping to make it through the last year of high school without incident, and then go back to Manila to study music. But with her short hair and combat boots, she is a clear outlier, drawing the scorn of her fellow students, including the popular Emma. Emma is the daughter of a single mother who is looked down upon in town, but she gains recognition as the star student and most popular girl in the school. Emma and Billie are assigned to do a class project together, and very soon, the two begin to influence each other, and then they fall in love. The complication in the story comes when Emma finds out she is pregnant with her boyfriend Miguel, whose role in her life remained unclear during her time with Billie. Miguel wants to marry her, her mother encourages her to get an abortion, and Billie wants to win money at a talent show to help take care of the baby. But Emma wants her own way and her own decisions. However, she is facing expulsion from school and loss of her scholarships, and therefore an uncertain future. Cast Gabby Padilla as Emma Zar Donato as Billie Beauty Gonzalez as Amy Cielo Aquino as Miss Castro Ryle Paolo Santiago as Miguel Shiara Joy Dizon as Twinkle Background Lee, who wrote, directed and produced Billie and Emma, stated that she is making movies that her younger self "needed to see", as she had grown up without seeing representation of herself as a queer youth in the media, and was left feeling invisible. According to her, she made sure this film did that which she thought would never happen in her lifetime: cast queer actors to play queer roles, in a film directed by a queer director. Lee also relates that her