Dustin Celestino is a Filipino film director, screenwriter, composer, college professor, and playwright. His debut feature film "Utopia" (2019) was the Jury Prize winner of the C1 Originals 2019 Film Festival, for which he was nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Since 2017, he has received 3 first prize awards and a third prize award from the Carlos Palanca Awards, winning in both the English (2) and Filipino (2) divisions of the full-length play category. From 2018-2023, his one-act plays Mga Eksena sa Buhay ng Kontrabida, Doggy, and Fermata have been featured in the Virgin Labfest, the biggest theatre festival in the Philippines. He teaches screenwriting at the De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde.

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