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Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya (March 30, 1955 – October 8, 2012) 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, [2] she was the founder and president of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo ...
Marilou Diaz-Abaya was born on 30 March 1955 in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. She was a director and producer, known for Muro-ami (1999), New Moon (2001) and José Rizal (1998). She was married to Manolo Abaya.
Jun 16, 2022 · Marilou Diaz-Abaya was a film and television director and screenwriter. She began her career in the 1980s and was part of the generation that defined what is today remembered as the “Second Golden Age of Philippine Cinema.”
Marilou DIAZ-ABAYA. Film Director. Born March 30, 1955 （aged46）. Ms. Marilou Diaz-Abaya is in the vanguard of contemporary Philippine filmmakers. She conveys the Asian spirit to the world through works that depict the joy and sadness of common people with great vitality.
Her death in late 2012 at the age of 57 was widely mourned in her country and those parts of the world where her works had captured the imagination of filmgoers and signposted the burgeoning vitality of Asian cinema with a Philippine complexion.
