Petersen Vargas
- Name: Petersen Vargas
- Native name: Petersen Vargas
- Nationality: Filipino
- Gender: Male
- Born: August 2, 1992
- Age: 31
His queer coming-of-age debut feature "2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten" (2016), set in the late 1990s in the aftermath of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption, was awarded Best Picture at the Cinema One Originals Film Festival (2016) and the Audience Award at the Torino LGBTQI Film Festival (2017). Vargas’ undergraduate thesis film “Lisyun qng Geografia (Geography Lessons, 2014),” a film fully spoken in his native language Kapampangan, won him the Best Director trophy at the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival (2015).
He is a 2018 alumnus of the Asian Film Academy and a 2014 cum laude graduate from the University of the Philippines Film Institute.
He is known to be the creator and director of the first-ever Filipino gay web series “Hanging Out” presented by TEAM Magazine and Blued. He also works as a Creative Manager at a local independent film studio, T-Rex Entertainment, the production company behind titles such as Victor Villanueva's "Patay na si Hesus (Jesus is Dead)" and Samantha Lee's "Billie & Emma".
He lives in Quezon City with his cat, Wong Kat Wai.
(Source: Petersen Vargas, CargoCollective) Edit Biography
Screenwriter
Title | Rating |
---|---|
In Case They Don't Arrive | 8.3 |
Director
Title | Rating |
---|---|
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking | 0.0 |
Can't Buy Me Love Season 2 | 7.8 |
Un/Happy for You | 0.0 |
A Very Good Girl | 7.3 |
An Inconvenient Love | 7.6 |
Hello Stranger | 7.9 |
Don't 4get About Me | 6.7 |
Coup de Grace | 10.0 |
Screenwriter & Director
Title | Rating |
---|---|
How to Die Young in Manila | 6.7 |
2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten | 6.9 |
Hanging Out | 7.3 |
Shot at the Night | 8.0 |
Hold On, We’re Going Home | 8.0 |
Lisyun Qng Geografia | 6.5 |
Swirl | 7.0 |
Slow Dances | 7.0 |
Years When I Was a Child Inside | 0.0 |
Last Day | 6.9 |
I Suddenly Remembered You One Night | 0.0 |
5 Ning Gatpanapun | 0.0 |
How To Fall In Love With A Stranger | 8.0 |
Producer
Title | Rating |
---|---|
Maybe Today | 7.2 |
Henry | 7.0 |
Hello Stranger: The Movie | 8.0 |
Isaang Daa't Isang Mariposa | 0.0 |
Open | 7.0 |
Class of 2018 | 7.5 |
Contestant #4 | 7.9 |
Editor
Title | Rating |
---|---|
Matwang Dalaga | 10.0 |
Movie
Title | Rating |
---|---|
LSS
Filipino Movie, 2019,
[Gig Goer]
(Bit part)
|
7.7
|
Baka, Siguro, Yata
Filipino Movie, 2015,
[Officemate]
(Bit part)
|
10.0
|
I Suddenly Remembered You One Night
Filipino Movie, 2013,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
5 Ning Gatpanapun
Filipino Movie, 2012,
[Narrator]
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Special
Title | Rating |
---|---|
Strangers No More: The Making of Hello Stranger
Filipino Special, 2020, 1 eps
[Himself]
(Support Role)
|
8.1
|
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