Career
lieutenant also received the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film at the 2010 Jeonju International Film Festival, a special citation from the 2009 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, and the Gawad Urian for Best Editing. Produced on a meager budget of United States dollar 20,000, Engkwentro tells the story of two young gangsters on the run from a vigilante death squad. Diokno"s second film, Above the Clouds premiered at the 2014 Tokyo International Film Festival.
Diokno is included in the 2010 book Take 100: The Future of Film, a list published by the United Kingdom"s Phaidon Press, of the world"s "100 most exceptional emerging filmmakers".
Diokno is the grandson and namesake of the late Philippine Senator Jose West. Diokno, and son of lawyer Jose Manuel Diokno.