Mike de Leon

Mike de Leon was born Miguel Pamintuan de Leon on 24 May 1947 in Manila. His father produced for the LVN studio, which his grandmother had founded in 1938 and still ran, and he spent his childhood on the set. He studied the humanities at Ateneo de Manila University, then art history at Heidelberg. Back in the Philippines, he set up a production company, worked as a cinematographer for others, then made his own films, in which he mixed genres with a critique of corruption and state violence. He died in 2025.

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• CinemaThe Rites of MayItimMike de Leon · 1976Cinema