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Marilou Diaz-Abaya

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Multi-awarded film director in the Philippines

DirectorsLived 1955 to 2012 · aged 57
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Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya was a Filipina film director. She was posthumously conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022, she was the founder and president of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo.

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Filmography 24

Of the Flesh1983
Moral1982
In the Navel of the Sea1998
Working Girls1984
Brutal1980
José Rizal1998
Sensual1986
Visions Cinema: Film in the Philippines - A Report by Tony Rayns1983
Madonna and Child1996
Let's Embrace the Past Once More1983
Redeem Her Honor1995
The 11th Commandment: Love Thy Spouse1994
New Moon2001
Milagros1997
Then and Now2003
Reef Hunters1999
Baby Tsina1984
Maging Akin Muli2005
Chain1980
Ikaw ang Pag-ibig2011
Macho Gigolo1981
Boystown1982
Ishmael Bernal - Truth and Dare1993
Visionary Filmmaker - Marilou Diaz-Abaya1999

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2001Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize

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Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya was a Filipina film director. She was posthumously conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022, she was the founder and president of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo. She was the director of the 1998 film José Rizal, a biographical film on the Philippines' national hero of the same name. She was part of the Second Golden Age of Philippine Cinema.

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Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1955 to 2012 · aged 57
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9 languages

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