Festival 2021
How to Die Young in Manila
Philippines, 2020
Short Form
Directed by
Petersen Vargas
Petersen Vargas
Running time
12 min mins
12 min mins
A teenage boy trails a group of young hustlers, thinking one of them may be his anonymous hook-up for the night. But as he makes his way across the city, the hustlers inexplicably appear as dead bodies strewn along the pavement.
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Director Bio
Petersen Vargas is a director whose films explore Filipino youth through a queer and regional lens. His feature debut 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten (2016) won the Audience Award at Torino LGBTQI Film Festival, and his latest short film How to Die Young in Manila (2020) premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and has screened in festivals internationally.
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