Marilou Diaz-Abaya

Biography

Marilou Díaz-Abaya (30 March 1955 – 8 October 2012) was a Filipina multi-award winning film director. She was the founder and president of the Marilou Díaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo, Philippines. She was the director of the 1998 film José Rizal, a biographical film on the Philippines' national hero. She was part of the Second Golden Age of Philippine Cinema.

Known For

Acting

1993

Ishmael Bernal - Truth and Dare

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1999

Visionary Filmmaker - Marilou Diaz-Abaya

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1984

Working Girls

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Mrs. Kalaw (uncredited)

1983

Visions Cinema: Film in the Philippines - A Report by Tony Rayns

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Self

Production

1999

Reef Hunters

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1995

Kapag May Katwiran... Ipaglaban Mo: The Movie

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1998

Kiss, Cuddle and Celebrate

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Crew

Directing

1981

Macho Gigolo

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1998

José Rizal

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1980

Tanikala

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1982

Moral

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1983

Of the Flesh

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1998

In the Navel of the Sea

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1984

Alias Baby Tsina

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1980

Brutal

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1999

Reef Hunters

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1996

Madonna and Child

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1997

Milagros

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2003

Noon At Ngayon

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2001

Bagong Buwan

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1994

The Eleventh Commandment: Love Thy Spouse

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1995

Kapag May Katwiran... Ipaglaban Mo: The Movie

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1983

Minsan Pa Nating Hagkan Ang Nakaraan

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2011

Ikaw ang Pag-ibig

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1986

Sensual

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2005

Maging Akin Muli

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1982

Boystown

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