Multi-awarded film director Marilou-Diaz-Abaya passed away Monday evening after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 57.
Direk Marilou died at St. Luke’s Hospital, Global City, Taguig City. She was 27. She is known to do 21 feature-length movies in over three decades. Some of those movies are the critically-acclaimed films – Brutal (1980), Moral (1982), Karnal (1983), Baby Tsina (1984), Kung Ako’y Iiwan Mo (1992), Ipaglaban Mo The Movie (1995), Milagros (1997), Sa Pusod Ng Dagat (1997), Jose Rizal (1998), Muro Ami (1999), and Bagong Buwan (2001). Her last movie is “Ikaw Ang Pag-ibig” shown in theaters last year 2011.
Here’s the breaking news from ABS-CBN News:
VIDEO: Veteran director Marilou Diaz Abaya succumbed to breast cancer Monday night
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