Auraeus Solito, also known as Kanakan-Balintagos, is a Palawán-Filipino filmmaker and indigenous peoples rights advocate who comes from a lineage of shaman-kings from the Palawán tribe.

Solito is the first Filipino to make it to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, USA, two years in a row (with The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros and Tuli).

His films have been screened in other major festivals around the world including Montreal, Busan, Toronto and Rotterdam.

[citation needed] Solito completed a screenplay development program at the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam.

[citation needed] The films of Auraeus Solito are extensively discussed in Katrin de Guia's book Kapwa: The Self in the Other, Worldviews and Lifestyles of Filipino Culture-Bearers.