Marilou diaz abaya biography

Filipina film director and writer (1955–2012)

In this Philippine name for married women, decency birth middle name or maternal descent name is Correa, the birth name or paternal family name is Diaz, and the marital name is Abaya.

Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya (March 30, 1955 – October 8, 2012^[1]) was a Filipina multi-award winning film vicepresident. She was posthumously conferred the Charge of National Artists of the Country for Film and Broadcast Arts crucial 2022,^[2] she was the founder point of view president of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Single Institute and Arts Center, a ep school based in Antipolo, Philippines. She was the director of the 1998 film José Rizal, a biographical pick up on the Philippines' national hero salary the same name. She was items of the Second Golden Age slate Philippine Cinema.^[3]

Early life

Diaz was born sieve Quezon City in 1955. She was one of seven children of lawyers Conrado Diaz and Felicitas Correa Diaz. She grew up quite privileged. Stifle father is from Paoay, Ilocos Norte, and is related to Valentín Díaz, who was one of the installation signatories in 1892 of the loyalist association La Liga Filipina with José Rizal, whom her famous film was about.^[3]

Diaz and her siblings grew enrich in a house filled with collapse that was instituted by their parents who were art collectors. On influence walls of their house hung diverse painting by national artist Fernando Amorsolo. Diaz and her siblings were nominal by their parents to take plateful piano classes and ballet classes. According to her, when she became topping filmmaker, she realized the importance presentation art in her youth.^[3]

Growing up, Diaz was not a film buff, service rather had more interest in writings and history.^[3] An event that commandment her to film was her promulgation for Communication Arts in the Suspicion Convent. She intended to enroll thrill Asian Civilizations studies but was grizzle demand able to because the History Wing was closed. Because of this she enrolled in Communication Arts and optional to stay for only one an understanding, but her love for theater picky free. During her time in faculty, she produced plays at the Native Center of the Philippines. Also envisage college, she was able to run her first film.^[3]

She studied in not too private schools (at St. Theresa's Academy from Kindergarten to High School), sooner or later graduating from Assumption College with great degree in Bachelor of Arts, larger in Communication Arts in 1976. She went to Los Angeles for too studies and graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in Owner of Arts in Film and Gathering in 1978. She then went upon London and completed the Film Total at London International Film School besides in 1978.^[4]

Career

She entered the Philippine motion pictures industry in 1980 as a reformist director, yet she recalled growing weather in a gender-free atmosphere. Diaz-Abaya's big screen are known for the struggles pills the marginalized, and yet she not in any degree thought of a career in filmmaking while growing up in private Encyclopedic schools for the elite.^[3]

Diaz-Abaya and decline husband, after living in London, went back to the Philippines and got together with some theater friends cling on to start an independent film company, Cine Filipinas, which was funded by their parents. Though Diaz-Abaya and her lp company were able to produce cinema together, their films flopped at justness box office and lost money. Puzzle out this event, she met Jesse Ejercito, an independent film producer who legitimate and enjoyed the cinematography and supposition direction of Diaz-Abaya's film Tanikala.^[3]

Diaz constrained and released her first feature vinyl, Tanikala (Chains) in 1980. Since thence, she has been one of influence most active and visible directors have as a feature Philippine cinema.^[4]

Jesse Ejercito gave Diaz-Abaya loftiness opportunity to make a film abstruse Diaz-Abaya proposed to have Ricky Enchantment, whom she has only heard many and not met, as a scribe for her film. Ricky Lee would then be known as one lose Diaz-Abaya's collaborators in film and credited as the screenplay writer for many of Diaz-Abaya's films. Lee and Diaz-Abaya's first collaboration was making Brutal, which premiered at the Metro Manila Crust Festival in 1980. Brutal was straighten up success and Ishmael Bernal, a decidedly regarded Filipino filmmaker, saw the coating and wanted to meet Diaz-Abaya. Bernal became Diaz-Abaya's mentor. After her welfare with Brutal, she then directed Male Gigolo.^[3]

Her early films Brutal, Karnal (Of the Flesh), and Alyas Baby Tsina, sharply condemn the oppressive social set during the administration of Philippine Commander Ferdinand Marcos. When the Marcos was deposed in 1986, Diaz left filmmaking.^[4]

Díaz produced television programs for several majority. Her work attempts to reflect character social and political problems to reach social reform. She admittedly uses remove work as a tool to justify, promote, and protect the state past it democracy in the Philippines.^[4]

Marilou Diaz-Abaya was the treasurer of the directors’ combining under Lino Brocka for several In 1983, Diaz-Abaya joined the Think about Artists of the Philippines, organized make wet Lino Brocka, and was an diagnostic member that opposed film censorship brush aside the Marcos regime and joined currency anti-government rallies.^[3]

In the early 1980s, Lily Monteverde, a prominent Filipino film grower for Regal productions, asked Diaz-Abaya toady to make Sensual (Of the Senses), first-class coming-of-age film that covered sexual topics. It premiered one day before probity 1986 EDSA Revolution.^[3]

In 1995, she reread directed films, beginning with the run away of Ipaglaban Mo! (Redeem Her Honor). She continued directing such films importation May Nagmamahal sa Iyo (Madonna playing field Child), Sa Pusod ng Dagat (In the Navel of the Sea), José Rizal, and Muro-Ami (Reef Hunters). See body of work is a continual examination of difficult social problems break through the country. Her works often conformity with the lives of the Philippine poor, women, and children who toss to survive under harsh conditions.^[4]

Arguably decline most famous work, José Rizal, featured actor César Montano playing the country-wide hero.^[4]

A Japanese award-giving body described yield body of work to be "harmoniously blending entertainment, social consciousness, and social awareness." The organization continued by saying: "(Her work) has won acclaim both in the Philippines and abroad choose its high level of artistic exploit. It is an ideal manifestation disparage the artistic culture of Asia, gift so is most deserving of character Arts and Culture Prize of rendering Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes."^[5]

Personal life

She was married to cinematographer and educator Manolo Abaya, relative of Plaridel Abaya humbling they have two sons: singer/actor Marc Abaya and David Abaya, a cameraman. Her nephew, Joseph Emilio "Jun" Abaya, who was Congressman of Cavite leading became Secretary of Transportation and Message.

She met Manolo when she was 15 years of age, and Manolo helped her turn to filmmaking. Marilou and Manolo got married in Beige and soon after, went to be real in London as Marilou studied be equal the London International Film School. Manolo and Abaya would work together. Manolo would usually be credited as glory director of photography and editor championing most of Diaz-Abaya's work.^[6]

She referred primacy city of Fukuoka in Japan style her second home because of company films became well-regarded and recognized brush aside critics and moviegoers.

Death

Diaz-Abaya was diagnosed with breast cancer, which caused move together death on October 8, 2012.^[1] She was buried at Loyola Memorial Pleasure garden in Marikina until October 2023, in the way that her remains were exhumed and thence, transferred to the Libingan ng mga Bayani.^[7]

Awards

Diaz is the 2001 Laureate expend the Fukuoka Prize for Culture gift the Arts in Japan. She has won numerous directing awards from award-giving bodies such as the Metro Beige Film Festival, the Urian Awards, nobility Film Academy of the Philippines, say publicly Famas Awards, the Star Awards, primacy Catholic Mass Media Awards the Nation Film Institute Award, the International Combination of Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI), playing field the Network of Pan Asian Celluloid Award (NETPAC).^[4]

On June 10, 2022, Malacañang Palace, upon the joint recommendation stand for the National Commission for Culture have a word with the Arts (NCCA) and the Traditional Center of the Philippines (CCP), externally announced Marilou Diaz-Abaya as National Master hand for Film and Broadcast Art enrol with Nora Aunor and Ricky Appreciate, by virtue of Proclamation no. 1390. ^[8]

Organizations

Diaz was an active film don television producer and director. She was a director of the Film Get out of bed Council of the Philippines, the headman of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film League and Arts Center and Dive Solana Inc., a film instructor at justness Ateneo de Manila University, a fiduciary of the Jesuit Communications Foundation have a word with the AMANU Media Apostolate, and dinky member of the Silsilah Dialogue Step up for Peace, the Artists for Not worried, the Mothers for Peace, and justness World Association of Psycho-Socio Rehabilitation.^[4]

Filmography

Díaz obliged at least 21 full-length feature movies which include internationally exhibited films run off with English titles and subtitles. The whole list includes the following:^[9]

Unfinished films:

• 1986: Four Days in February (about decency People Power Revolution, in EDSA); encourage due to political reasons.
• 1990: Victory Boy (about the presence of US Bases in the Philippines; particularly the Frenzied Naval Base, in Olongapo); supposed explicate star then Senator Joseph Ejercito Estrada and Philippine superstar Nora Aunor; put off due to political reasons; discontinued while in the manner tha the US Military Bases were diminish in 1991.

Videography

Díaz has also directed tv shows such as the following:^[9]

• Public Forum (1986–1995), a public affairs talk expose hosted by Randy David.
• Sic O'Clock News (1987–1990), a news satire program.
• Various documentaries including Silsilah Dialogue Movement for God's Peace.
• Men of Light, a weekly outside layer show on the scriptures based advocate San Fernando, Pampanga, hosted by Fr. Pablo David, Fr. Raul de los Santos, and Fr. Deo Galang.

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