Artist Profile: Pepe Diokno
(Writer • Producer • Director)
Profile:
Pepe Diokno is a writer-producer-director from the Philippines, born in Manila on August 13, 1987. "Engkwentro" is his first feature-length film. It is inspired by a year of Pepe's research, visiting minors in jails around the Philippines for a documentary in 2007.
Pepe is an undergraduate at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. His next project is a feature-length narrative about children warriors within the Islamic insurgency in southern Philippines.
