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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 ...
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.”
Oct 8, 2012 · MANILA, Philippines—Multi-awarded filmmaker Marilou Diaz-Abaya passed away at 6:30 p.m. on Monday at the St. Luke’s Hospital in Taguig City, after a five-year battle with cancer, her son Marc said. She was 57.
Oct 8, 2012 · MANILA, Philippines – Multi-awarded film and TV director Marilou Diaz-Abaya, 57, passed away Monday night, October 8, at 6:45 pm, after a long battle with breast cancer.
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.
Abaya had long been typed as a director of female, if not feminist, films, and the new project centered on the experiences and memories of a young male growing up in a fishing community in the 1950s. The mode of the story is also a departure, recalling the magic realism of Latin American novelists.
