Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Selected Filmography:
1980: Chains
1980: Brutal
1982: Moral
1983: Of the Flesh
1995: Redeem Her Honor
1997: Milagros
1997: In the Navel of the Sea
1998: José Rizal
2003: Then and Now
2011: You are Love
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Marilou Diaz-Abaya was born in 1955 in Quezon City. She graduated from Assumption College with a degree in Bachelor of Arts, major in Communication Arts in 1976. She went to Los Angeles for further studies and graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a degree in Master of Arts in Film and Television in 1978. She directed her debut feature, Chains, in 1980. She later founded the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center. She directed 21 feature films.
She died in 2012.