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In the beginning of his career, de Leon directed two short films, Sa Bisperas in 1972 and Monologo in 1975. [3] In 1975, he established the production house Cinema Artists Philippines. Its initial film production was Lino Brocka 's Manila in the Claws of Light, on which de Leon also served as cinematographer. [2] Itim (1976)
Miguel Pamintuan De Leon, also known as Mike De Leon, is a noted Filipino film director, cinematographer, scriptwriter and film producer. He was born in Manila on May 24, 1947 to Manuel De Leon and Imelda Pamintuan.
Mar 20, 2023 · Mike De Leon is a giant in Filipino film, the enfant terrible of the New Cinema that emerged in the 1970s and made defining films into the ‘80s.
Nov 21, 2022 · De Leon’s own eclectic films fall somewhere in between: they neither alienate the public with art-house pretension nor patronize them with formulaic narratives. His debut feature, 1976’s Itim ( The Rites of May ), a gothic horror about spiritual possession, eludes easy payoffs and climactic scares. 1980’s Kakabakaba ka ba?
Nov 1, 2022 · Film series. Nov 1–30, 2022. Mike De Leon, the producer and cinematographer of Lino Brocka’s haunting masterpiece Manila in the Claws of Light (1975), is one of Filipino cinema’s most fiercely political and dramatic storytellers in his own right.
Miguel Pamintuan de Leon, also known as Mike de Leon is a Filipino film director, cinematographer, scriptwriter and film producer. De Leon's films are a full reflection of the Filipino psyche that sought answer for questions on social class belonging, political absurdities, and fragmentations in various forms.
Nov 2, 2022 · According to the museum’s press notes, “De Leon’s films are presented alongside some of the few surviving classic melodramas, musicals, costume dramas, and noir films of the 1930s-1960s to...
