Marilou Diaz-Abaya

 

            Diaz-Abaya (March 30, 1955 – October 8, 2012) was a Filipina multi-award winning film director. 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 part of the Second Golden Age of Philippine Cinema. 
            
            She began the Philippine film business as a feminist filmmaker in 1980, yet she recalls growing up in a gender-free environment. Diaz-films Abaya's are notable for depicting marginalized people's problems, although she never imagined a career in filmmaking while growing up in privileged Catholic schools for the affluent.
Diaz is the 2001 Laureate of the Fukuoka Prize for Culture and the Arts in Japan. She has won numerous directing awards from award-giving bodies such as the Metro Manila Film Festival, the Urian Awards, the Film Academy of the Philippines, the Famas Awards, the Star Awards, the Catholic Mass Media Awards the British Film Institute Award, the International Federation of Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI), and the Network of Pan Asian Cinema Award (NETPAC)

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            She was the director of the 1998 film José Rizal, a biographical film on the Philippines' national hero. She was a director and producer, known for Muro-ami (1999), New Moon (2001) and In the Navel of the Sea (1998).

            She returned to the cinema in a flurry of activity with the release of "Redeem Her Honor" in 1995. She has constantly maintained an uncompromising attitude in her investigation of difficult societal problems in subsequent films such as "Madonna and Child," "In the Navel of the Sea," "Jose Rizal," and "Reef Hunters." Simultaneously, her work became more rich, infused with sympathy for the underclass, mothers, and children who struggle to survive in tough situations. Ms. Diaz-films Abaya's had an even greater generosity of spirit and personal warmth. 
"Jose Rizal," the filmmaker's masterwork, has been lauded as a wonderful work of art that presents a national hero from a completely new perspective as an artist and human being, with originality and exceptional expression. The film was a huge success in the Philippines, where films with a high level of entertainment content are extremely popular, and its popularity is predicted to herald in a new age in Philippine cinema.

            Ms. Diaz-collection Abaya's of work combines amusement, social concern, and ethnic knowledge in a seamless manner. It has received critical accolades both in the Philippines and internationally for its high degree of artistic achievement. It is an ideal expression of Asian creative culture, and thus most deserving of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes' Arts and Culture Prize.

            Her works include the principles and elements of contemporary arts: Performance. Both her subject or artist and her have to perform or exert body movements for them able to create such arts.


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