Marilou Diaz-Abaya

Marilou Diaz-Abaya was born in 1955 in Quezon City. She studied film in London, returned to the Philippines and moved from screenwriting to directing in the late seventies. Her work remained tied to that of the screenwriter Ricky Lee, with whom she made three films about women's lives, and to that of her husband, Manolo Abaya, who operated the camera on her shoots. She later founded a film school and taught there. She died of cancer in Manila in 2012.

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• CinemaMoralMarilou Diaz-Abaya · 1982Cinema