Marilou Diaz Abaya has succumbed to breast cancer on Monday, October 8, 2012. She was 57.
The veteran director died of cardio pulmonary arrest caused by cancer at exactly 6:45 PM surrounded by family and friends at the St. Luke's Hospital in Taguig City.
A product of private schools like St. Theresa’s College and Assumption College, she directed at least twenty-one full length feature films most of them dealing with the lives of the poor, women and children struggling to survive.
She admittedly uses her work as a tool to uphold, promote, and protect the state of democracy in the Philippines. –wiki
Most notable of her works were the Vilma Santos-starrer Baby Tsina (1984), Sa Pusod Ng Dagat (1997), Muro Ami (1999), and Jose Rizal (1998) among others. The last movie she directed was last year’s Ikaw Ang Pag-ibig.
She was survived by husband Manolo (cinematographer and educator) and sons Marc (Kapuso actor and frontman of Kjwan band) and David (filmmaker and film instructor).
Check out ABS-CBN’s flash report regarding the director’s death.
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