MANILA DEATH SQUAD
Short Film | 13m | Digital Video | Color
Philippines + USA | 2017
A hard-headed young journalist tries to score an interview with the leader of a brutal vigilante group.
She's way in over her head.
Starring | Sid Lucero & Annicka Dolonius
Director + Editor + Cinematographer | Dean Colin Marcial
Screenplay | Dean Colin Marcial & Kent Szlauderbach
Dialogues | Raya Martin & Ria Limjap
Music | Flying Ipis
Soundscapes | Brian McOmber
Producers | Daphne O. Chiu, Andrew Renzi, Dean Colin Marcial
Executive Producers | Fernando Ortigas & E.A. Rocha
Co-Executive Producers | Brett Potter & Lucas Leyva
TUKO + BUCHI BOY + ARTIKOLO UNO
in association with NORTH OF NOW + BORSCHT + IRVING HARVEY
International Sales | STRAY DOGS
SCREENINGS
Previewed at Borscht Diez
Fantastic Fest
Sitges
Slamdance
Winterthur
Seattle
Eastern Oregon
Glasgow
FKM
Portland
Athens
Indie Memphis
Treefort
Stuff MX
AWARDS
Best Short Film - Eastern Oregon Film Festival
PRESS
Indiewire
Vice
Scout
Bandwagon
Unseen Films
Filmmaker
Dim The House Lights
Chicana from Chicago
“AN ELECTRIC LOVE LETTER TO TARANTINO”
“A PUNCH IN THE GUT—
FUNNY, BEAUTIFUL, AND SUPER DARK ”
“HAUNTING, GRITTY & URGENT
A NATION’S WAKE-UP JOLT TRAPPED IN CELLULOID”
“BEAUTIFULLY ACTED, EYE-POPPINGLY SHOT,
BOLD AND BRILLIANT ”