| Director | | Pepe Diokno | 
Filmography
2006 No Passport Needed (short)
2007 Dancing for Discipline (short)
2009 Engkwentro
Biography
Born in Manila in 1987, he is a writer, producer, and director. Engkwentro is his first feature film. It is inspired by a year of Pepe’s research, visiting minors in jails around the Philippines for a documentary in 2007. He is an undergraduate at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. His next project is a feature-ength narrative about children warriors within the Islamic insurgency in the southern Philippines.
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Philippines Rising
Engkwentro / Pepe Diokno |  Inspired by true events, Engkwentro tells the story of Richard and Raymond, two teenage brothers on opposite sides of a gang war. Richard is the leader of his gang, “Bagong Buwan” (New Moon), while Raymond is just being inducted into “Batang Dilim” (Children of the Night), a rival gang led by Tomas, who is addicted to solvents. Complications arise at a deadly midnight ‘engkwentro’ (clash), when Tomas assigns Raymond the task of killing his older brother. All this happens while the City Death Squad stalks the streets. This real-life vigilante group is allegedly backed by the omnipotent Mayor Danilo Dularte Suarez and is responsible for many unsolved murders of teen gangsters. Today, they are hunting down Richard. Will they take the younger brother, too?
| | Director: | Pepe Diokno | | Script: | Pepe Diokno | | Photographer: | Emman Pascual | | Montage: | Orlean Tan, Ralph Crisostomo, Miko Araneta | | Sound: | Mark Laccay | | With: | Celso Ad Castillo (mayor), Felix Roco (Richard), Daniel Medrana (Raymond), Zyrus Desamparado (Tomas), Eda Nolan (Jenny-Jane), Moises Mag-isa (father), Bayang Barrios (mother) | | World Sales: | Pepe Diokno T. +63 22 164 577 pepe@diokno.org | | Producer: | Pepe Diokno | | Production Country: | Philippines | | Type: | Digibeta Color | | Duration: | 61' | | Production Year: | 2009 | | Screening Schedule | | JOHN CASSAVETES: | Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 20:00 | ID:155 | | PAVLOS ZANNAS: | Monday, November 16, 2009 - 17:30 | ID:324 | | Return |
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