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 ...

Filipino women, specifically those engaged in the arts, have been an unstoppable force since time immemorial. From female National Artists who made significant contributions to nation building and ...

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 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 ...