Ramon Marcelino Diaz Abaya, known professionally as Marc Abaya, is a Filipino actor, singer, TV host, and VJ. He appeared in the 2009 Philippine release of Tinker Bell.
Sa Pusod ng Dagat is a 1998 Filipino film produced and directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya. It stars Jomari Yllana with Chin Chin Gutierrez and Elizabeth Oropesa. The film was critically acclaimed in local and international film festivals.
José Rizal is a 1998 Philippine historical drama film directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya and starring Cesar Montano as José Rizal. The film was based on the true story of Filipino patriot José Rizal, who was imprisoned under the Spanish colonization and tells Rizal's story until the final day of his execution.
Bagong Buwan is a 2001 Filipino drama film co-produced and directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya and written by Diaz-Abaya, Ricky Lee, and Jun Lana. It is about the Muslim rebellion in Mindanao, Philippines and its effect on civilians. It has become one of Marilou Diaz-Abaya's cinematic masterpieces due to making awareness and highlights of a socio-political issue to the cinematic audience.
Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya was a Filipina multi-award winning film director. She was 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, Philippines. 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.
Ricardo Arreola Lee is a Filipino screenwriter, journalist, novelist, and playwright. He was conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022.
Rodolfo R. Lana Jr., known professionally as Jun Robles Lana, is a Filipino filmmaker. The winner of 11 Palanca Awards for Literature, he became the youngest member of the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2006. In 2015, he directed the actual one-shot film, Shadow Behind The Moon, which won the Best Director, NETPAC and FIPRESCI awards at the 13th Pacific Meridian Film Festival. At the 20th International Film Festival of Kerala, he won the Best Director award for the same film.
Mona Lisa Yuchengco is a Filipino-American community activist, publisher and filmmaker. She was born in Manila, Philippines and moved to San Francisco in 1982 with her two sons. Yuchengco graduated from Assumption College with degrees in Liberal Arts and Education and earned a master's degree in Business Administration from Ateneo University.
The FAMAS Award for Best Director is one of the major FAMAS Awards, given to the film director who has shown great artistic instincts, choices and excellence in assembling his or her motion picture. The FAMAS Best Director is chosen from the Filipino films shown in the previous calendar year that were screened by the FAMAS. As of the 55th FAMAS Awards, four women have picked up the award, namely Fely Crisostomo, Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Laurice Guillen and Lupita Aquino (Kashiwahara); and twenty-six men.
The 25th Metro Manila Film Festival was held in Manila, Philippines starting December 25.
The 6th Metro Manila Film Festival was held in 1980.
Noon at Ngayon: Pagsasamang Kay Ganda is a 2003 Filipino drama film directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya and written by Ricky Lee. Noon At Ngayon tells the story of four friends who reunite after many years of separation. The film examines how dreams are shattered and changed through the years because of life's troubles and how these people reconciled with their pasts to lead better lives in the present. The film is a sequel to Diaz-Abaya's 1982 film, Moral and was released on August 13, 2003, under Star Cinema.
Ikaw ang Pag-ibig is a 2011 religious family-drama film written and directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya and released by Star Cinema with the Archdiocese of Caceres and Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center. It commemorates the tercentenary of the devotion to Our Lady of Peñafrancia, the patroness of the Bicol Region in the Philippines. It is the last film directed by Diaz-Abaya before she died in 2012. The film was released on September 14, 2011.
Abaya is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The 32nd Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1984 in the Philippines. This is for the Outstanding Achievements of the different films for the year 1983.
Of the Flesh is a 1983 Philippine drama film directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya. It was adapted and written by Ricky Lee from the legal story "To Take a Life" by Teresa Añover Rodriguez and produced by Benjamin G. Yalung. It sets in the 1930s during the American colonial era and it tells the story of a newly-wed couple Narcing and Puring arrived from Manila in the town of Mulawin, a place where it was filled with violent and tragic pasts and it has been similarized to Hell by the Storyteller, played by Charito Solis. As they arrive, they will witness all of the misfortunes and violent actions as it tackles rape, incest, parricide, and tyranny that has been tainted in the town's heart by the cruel man Gusting.
Muro-Ami is a 1999 Filipino adventure drama film directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya. It stars Cesar Montano as Fredo, a ruthless captain of 150 muro-ami divers, who employ illegal fishing practices, such as pounding and crushing corals to scare fish, driving them towards the nets. It depicts one of the worst forms of child labor in the illegal fishing system.
Dan Villegas is a Filipino cinematographer and director. He won the 2014 Metro Manila Film Festival Best Director award for his film English Only, Please. He graduated from Ateneo de Manila University. He also took up film courses at the Marilou Diaz Abaya Film Institute and Berlinale Talents in Europe.
Milagros is a 1997 Philippine drama film directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya. The film stars Sharmaine Arnaiz as the title role. The film won 10 out of 15 awards in the 21st Gawad Urian Awards, including Best Film. It was selected as the Philippine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Moral is a 1982 Filipino coming-of-age drama film directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya and written by Ricky Lee. It is the second in a loose trilogy of feminist films by Diaz-Abaya and Lee which discusses women's issues, along with Brutal (1980) and Karnal (1983). Set in contemporary times in the Philippines, the film stars Lorna Tolentino, Gina Alajar, Sandy Andolong and Anna Marin as a group of friends and follows the course of their lives over the course of several years after they graduate from college. A "loosely structured, observational drama", the film discusses several topics that Diaz-Abaya and Lee saw as taboo at the time, such as abortion, rape, and gender inequality in the context of the changing morals of the time. This is Seven Star Productions' last feature film.
