Marilou Díaz-Abaya (30 March 1955 – 8 October 2012) was a Filipina multi-award winning film director. She was the founder and president of the Marilou Díaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center ...

The first of Diaz-Abaya's trilogy of films about women with screenwriter and fellow National Artist Ricky Lee, "Brutal" was the first Filipino movie to address gender-based violence as a feminist ...

"Brutal" (1980). Directed by National Artist Marilou Diaz-Abaya; screenplay by National Artist Ricky Lee. Monica Real is accused of murdering her husband, Tato, and two others. In jail, she ...

The 1998 film classic, helmed by the late director Marilou Diaz-Abaya and written by Ricky Lee, Jun Lana and Peter Ong Lim, is a three-hour epic that explores the life and struggles of the ...