The Search for Weng Weng

The Search for Weng Weng (2013)

The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold's personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond superstar Weng Weng.

Date of release
2013-11-29
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Andrew Leavold

Casting

Interesting facts

The Search for Weng Weng is a 2013 documentary film about Filipino actor Weng Weng (1957–1992), directed by Andrew Leavold. The film follows Leavold's quest to discover the story of the largely forgotten actor, whose real name was Ernesto de la Cruz. His starring roles were in locally produced action comedies films that found worldwide distribution in the early 1980s. Weng Weng is the shortest leading man in cinema history, standing at 83 cm. Leavold, who is Australian, decided to travel to the Philippines with a backpack and a camera and assemble every piece of information he could on the actor. Leavold interviewed many who sometimes both worked with and knew the actor.

Production

While running a video shop in Brisbane, Australia, director Andrew Leavold decided to make a documentary about the Filipino actor Weng Weng.

It was the basis of Mark Hartley's documentary about Filipino cinema Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010). Leavold launched a successful Kickstarter campaign, and with a team he completed the project.

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