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Jul 15, 2022 · Marilou Diaz-Abaya was to privilege born. It is the greatest irony of art and artist that, when she made her first film, it was about the class we assume she was not most familiar with. It was in ...
Despite the dismal fate of Milagros in the box office, the big producers were still ready to take a risk on Abaya. And her next film came in the form of a script, Mga Bangka sa Tag-Araw/Boats in Summer, that she came upon while serving as a member of the jury panel for the Palanca Awards, the Philippines’ equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.
S: Marilou Diaz-Abaya. Silsilah Peace Institute. Maging Akin Muli – Be Mine Again (TV movie), 2005. S: Marilou Diaz-Abaya. Jesuit Communications Foundation. Ikaw ang Pag-Ibig – You Are Love, 2011. S: Marilou Diaz Abaya. Archdiocese of Nueva Caceres, Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute.
Jul 21, 2022 · In 2001, Marilou Diaz-Abaya was declared the Film Laureate of the Fukuoka International Film Festival. The Fukuoka Prize cites Diaz-Abaya as being “the vanguard of contemporary Philippine ...
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.
Oct 9, 2012 · During the last few years of her life, acclaimed film director Marilou Diaz-Abaya devoted herself to loving the people around her, and to sharing her passion for movies with the new generation of filmmakers. This was revealed in an interview that Diaz-Abaya had in January 2012 with GMA anchor Jessica Soho for the program "Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho."
The film became the first of Abaya’s works to attract foreign attention when it received the 1984 British Film Institute’s Outstanding Film of the Year award, from the very city where Marilou, Manolo, and their soundman Amang Sanchez, all once trained while dreaming of becoming known filmmakers.
