Respeto
Alberto Monteras II
New York Premiere · Director Treb Monteras, actor Abra, and producer Monster Jimenez will be in attendance
This film has no current screenings
Director Treb Monteras, actor Abra, and producer Monster Jimenez will be in attendance
Respeto is a searing indictment of social injustice, set in the world of underground rap battles and starring the Philippines’ biggest hip-hop stars. Hendrix (Abra) is an aspiring hip-hop artist trapped in a life of low-level crime by his family of drug addicts. A failed robbery brings him and his friends into a redemptive partnership with Doc, an elderly bookstore owner whose life as a poet ended under martial law. The stubborn old man becomes a mentor to Hendrix, encouraging him to find the art in his wordplay. But then the personal becomes the dangerously political. North American Premiere