Quenton Allan Brocka (born 1972)is an award-winning American television and film director based in West Hollywood, California. He has directed and written a number of feature films while creating an animated television series for the Logo cable network. He also writes a column for The Advocate.
Brocka is of Filipino heritage and is also openly homosexual.
Brocka was born and spent his childhood in Guam. His family moved to the mainland United Sta...
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Quenton Allan Brocka (born 1972)is an award-winning American television and film director based in West Hollywood, California. He has directed and written a number of feature films while creating an animated television series for the Logo cable network. He also writes a column for The Advocate.
Brocka is of Filipino heritage and is also openly homosexual.
Brocka was born and spent his childhood in Guam. His family moved to the mainland United States, settling in Parkland, Washington where he attended Washington High School. He earned a degree in communications from the University of Washington in Seattle and went on to get a masters in film from the California Institute of the Arts.
His uncle was Lino Brocka, a famous LGBT film director in the Philippines. His mother didn't know Lino, except to say he was in the film industry. His father didn't know his brother well and the family never went to the Philippines so Allan never got to meet him or find out much about him.
It was in Guam...
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