Khavn De La Cruz>(1973, Manila), is a prolific Philippine filmmaker, writer, and musician living in Quezon City. Since 2002, he has been the festival director of the .MOV International Digital Film Festival. With his independent film company Filmless Films, he has made seven digital features and more than thirty short films, several of which have won prizes at Asian film festivals. Singer, songwriter, and pianist of The Brockas, Khavn also directs music videos. He has written & composed two rock operas and has received a citation from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. He has won in the National Literary Awards for his fiction and poetry and has been a Fellow twice in the National Writers Workshop.

Mondomanila: Institution of Poets / Mondomanila: Institusyon Ng Makata, PHILIPPINES, 2004, 15′
Based on the story by Norman Wilwayco, Institute of Poets is about Tony de Guzman, who is the current resident at the Institute of Poets and also a walking time-bomb waiting to go off. Frustrated with the pretensions he encounters, this shrewd citizen of the Philippines ghetto sets his sights on his foreign classmate Steve Banners, a pompous self-righteous dude with delusions of America’s grandeur at the expense of nations belonging to the “third world”.