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Born in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines to Igorot parents, Conan Altatis is a journalist-filmmaker-documentarist-actor. He graduated from Benguet State University with a Bachelor of Secondary Education degree. Among his mentors are Brillante Mendoza (filmmaking), Armando "Bing" Lao (scriptwriting), Joey Paras (acting), Arnold Reyes (acting), Soxy Topacio (acting), Gary Granada (songwriting), Vim Nadera (literary writing), Francisco Macansantos (literary writing), Francisco Macansantos (literary writing) and Hermie Beltran (literary writing).