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Died aged 57
GenderFemaleNationalityPhilippinesBorn30/03/1955Born inQuezon City, PhilippinesDied08/10/2012Died inTaguigCausebreast cancerWikidataQ630268Buried atLibingan ng mga BayaniTMDb#254760

Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya was a Filipina film director. She was posthumously conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022, she was the founder and president of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo. She was the director of the 1998 film José Rizal, a biographical film on the Philippines' national hero of the same name. She was part of the Second Golden Age of Philippine Cinema.

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YearTitleCharacterAge at
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1983Visions Cinema: Film in the Philippines - A Report by Tony RaynsMovieSelf28