Asian Film at the 2010 Jeonju International Film Festival, and the Gawad Urian for Best Editing. Diokno's second film, Above the Clouds premiered at the 2014 Tokyo International Film Festival and was nominated Best Film at the 2014 Singapore International Film Festival. The family drama tells the story of an orphaned teenage boy and his estranged grandfather embarking on a journey to overcome their grief. The Filipino-French co-production took three years to make, and was produced with the support of France's Aide aux cinemas du monde, South Korea's Asian Cinema Fund, Switzerland's Visions Sud Est and the Arte Prize from the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival. In 2015, Diokno produced his third feature, Kapatiran, an experimental film cum cinematic essay on fraternities and Filipino society’s tribal nature. It was an Official Selection at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and was a grantee of the QCinema International Film Festival. In some ways, the film was a return to Diokno's roots — a low-budget, realist work of social commentary. Critics described the film as “absolutely brave", “exceptionally personal and powerful", “Harsh, heartening, dizzying, and deadly", and “a fascinating experiment". Other projects Diokno has made short films and commercials with companies such as Jollibee, P&G, Unilever, BPI, and many others. He directed the Kwentong Jollibee film Date and the Safeguard film Pabaon sa Buhay. Both these films set viral video records and international advertising awards. During the COVID-19 crisis in 2020, Diokno gathered celebrities and produced a series of pro-bono commercials for the Department of Health to raise awareness about the virus among Filipinos with no access to the Internet. Diokno is chairman of the independent production company Epicmedia. He co-produced Lav Diaz’s Berlin Silver Bear winner, Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis, and the box office hit That Thing Called Tadhana by Antoinette Jadaone. Filmography Ancestry References External links Pepe Diokno - Official website 1987 births Filipino film directors Living people Tagalog people LGBT film directors Filipino LGBT comedians 20th-century LGBT people 21st-century LGBT people People from Manila Filipino screenwriters Filipino film producers University of the Philippines Diliman alumni Diokno family Filipino people of Indian descent