Pepe Diokno's Engkwentro won the Best Film Award in the recent Venice Film Festival featuring Zyrus Desamparado who is more popularly known as 'Poknat' in tv5's defunked teenage series, 'Lipgloss' which airs every Saturday at 5pm. Felix Roco, Daniel Medrana, Eda Nolan, Bayang Barrios, Jim Libiran, and Celso Ad Castillo also stars.Here a synopsis from the official website of the movie at http://engkwentromovie.multiply.com.
Richard (Felix Roco) and Raymond (Daniel Medrana) are two teenage brothers. Richard is the leader of his gang, "Bagong Buwan," while Raymond is just being inducted into rival gang, "Batang Dilim." Complications at a deadly midnight engkwentro (square-off), when Raymond is given the task of killing his older brother.
Meanwhile, the City Death Squad lurks the streets. This real-life vigilante group is allegedly backed by the city mayor (Celso Ad Castillo) and responsible for many unsolved murders of teen gangsters. Today, they are hunting down Richard. Will they take the younger brother, too?
