Paolo Dy is the mastermind behind the short film suspense-thriller titled "QWERTY" which is featured on the site "On the Lot"

Background and about yourself:

So what was your background like? Did you go to a film school? If so how did you like it?

I didn't start out in a full-time film school; I graduated with degrees that were just about as far from film as you can get (Management Engineering and Economics) haha. But my film education started in college, or rather, in the DORM of Ateneo. There was one summer when I borrowed my dad's video camera, and with the help of a bargain-basement rinky-dink editing card (that would only do 320×240 video at 15 frames per second) I and my friends would do our own little music videos and short films. We'd also do some small ads for the dorm resident's association and so on. 

One of my friends was studying to be a priest at the time; he showed my work to Fr. Johnny Go of the Jesuit Communications Foundation, and that's how I got my first professional job as an editor. 

Afterwards I sought out every chance to study the craft. I burned through every book about filmmaking that I could get my hands on. I soon moved up from editing to directing (I still believe that all directors should start out as editors!) and worked on a number of corporate and music videos. 

I had a short stint as a director in one of the major networks, but I was frustrated by the experience — I had a pretty recalcitrant crew and they just wouldn't follow some of my instructions, claiming some technical issue or another. I don't know how much of that was motivated by the old-timers being stubborn and sticking to what's worked for them before, and how much was because I was a young wet-behind-the-ears whipper-snapper director who didn't know their jargon and thus couldn't communicate to them in their own language.

More of this Interview with Paolo Dy at Wake T-rex