LINO BROCKA
TOYM Visual
INTRODUCTION
Brocka was born in Pilar,
Sorsogon.[4] He grew up and
lived in San Jose, Nueva
Ecija[5][6] and graduated from
Nueva Ecija High School in
1956.[7] He directed his first
film, Wanted: Perfect Mother,
based on The Sound of Music
and a local comic serial, in 1970.
It won an award for best
screenplay at the 1970 Manila
Film Festival. Later that year he
also won the Citizen’s Council
for Mass Media's best-director
award for the film Santiago!
And
Performing Arts Awardee (Film)
Why should be nominated?
Brocka developed a strong interest in films during his youth, particularly
American films, and despite his poor upbringing he managed to flourish
academically and won a college scholarship in the country’s leading
academic institute, the University of The Philippines. Initially majoring in
pre-law, he dropped the course to study literature instead. While
studying at the University, he joined the Dramatic Club but was
criticized for his provincial accent and demeanour, a treatment that
disgusted him. Brocka took it upon himself to watch his beloved
American movies to practice his English further and improve his accent,
a move that eventually gained him acceptance in the club, but only as a
stage hand. After dropping out of college, he converted to Mormonism
and devoted himself to missionary work, travelling to a leper colony in
Hawaii. He then travelled to America and worked menial jobs in San
Francisco for a brief period of time before turning down a chance for
American citizenship, opting instead to return to the Philippines to
revive his interest in filmmaking.
He joined the Philippine Educational Theatre Association where he met
its founder Cecille Guidote, which led to the making of his first film,
1970’s Wanted: Perfect Mother, a box-office hit based on The Sound of
Music, the only film he has made that was not heavy on social injustice
and drama. From then on, Brocka’s films became more personal, his
filmography depicting the plights and suffering of the Filipino people.
Some of his best works are Insiang (1978), a revenge tale of a girl’s rape
by her mother’s lover, which became the first entry by a Filipino
filmmaker at the Cannes Festival, earning him the prestigious Palm
d’Or. Manila: In The Claws of Darkness (1976), Jaguar (1980), and Bayan
Ko (My Country, 1984) were also nominated for the award, further
cementing his reputation as one of the greatest directors to come out of
South East Asia.

INTRODUCTION
Lisa Teresita Pacheco Macuja-
Elizalde (born October 3, 1964)
is a Prima Ballerina. In 1984, she
became the first Filipina prima
ballerina, and first foreign
soloist to ever join the Kirov
Ballet. In the Philippines, she is
the Artistic Director of Ballet
Manila and Vice-Chairman of
the Philippine UNESCO National
Commission. She was also the
Commissioner of the National
Commission on the Role of
Filipino Women. Macuja-
Elizalde is also Directress and
faculty member of the Ballet
Manila School – a training
center for ballet professionals
who are steeped in the Russian
Vaganova method
LISA ELIZALDE
TOYM Visual
And
Performing Arts Awardee (Dance)
Why should be nominated?
An acclaimed and multi-awarded prima ballerina, Lisa
has been heralded across the globe for her spirited
dancing as well as her strong, precise yet graceful
movements.
With 25 years of ballet behind her, Lisa’s love for the
art continues to burn, though this time, her passion
goes beyond the rigorous 6-8 hours of daily training.
That ballet is only for the elite is a perception that Lisa
vows to change in the Philippines.
The beauty of dance is that it is universal – no child is
too young, no adult is too old to appreciate the art.
Thus the dream to bring ballet to the masses was
born. Together with a talented and equally passionate
team, Lisa traveled the Philippines to stage over 4,100
free ballet performances in 47 cities enthralling a
diverse audience from street children and orphans, to
NGOs, to priests and nuns, and more.
But it was by founding her own ballet company Ballet
Manila, did she fulfill her mission of bringing ballet to
the people by providing affordable and accessible
performances to the Filipinos. In doing so, Lisa began
her legacy. More than a decade later, Lisa, world
performer, national icon, and now teacher, has really
earned herself the title as the Ballerina of the People.

INTRODUCTION
He grew up in Bacolod City,
Philippines. Even in elementary
school, he began modifying his
school uniform and going to
tailors to have new clothes
made for himself and his friends
and family. Most Filipino
fashionistas remember Rafé for
Schizo, a clothing and
accessories business under Sari-
sari store. He was only 18 then
and with no formal training in
fashion. To expand his horizons
and gain experience in the
fashion industry, he went to
New York where he enrolled in
FIT (Fashion Institute of
Technology) evening school in
fashion while supporting
himself as a design assistant.
RAFE TOTENGCO
TOYM Visual
And
Performing Arts Awardee (Fashion Design)
Why should be nominated?
In 1997, Rafe Totengco launched his namesake
accessory brand, Rafe New York. Rooted in fashion
and inspired by travel, art and architecture, Totengco
designs for the woman who chooses the road less
traveled. Skilled in balancing fashion and function, he
creates products that loyal fans say never go out of
style.
Born in the Philippines and living in New York,
Totengco is recognized in the industry to be one of
the most acclaimed of a new generation of American-
Asian fashion designers. Throughout his two-decade
career, he has received several honors. Totengco was
a finalist for the Perry Ellis Accessory Design Award at
the 1999 CFDA Fashion Awards, and won the Best
Accessories Designer Award at the 2001 Accessories
Council ACE Awards.
Other honors include the 2002 Ten Outstanding
Young Men (TOYM) award from the Philippine
Jaycees, awarded personally by the President of the
Philippines; the 2007 Asian Entrepreneur of the Year
(AEY) award by Asian Enterprise Magazine; the 2010
Pamana ng Filipino Presidential Award for Filipino
Individuals Overseas. He was named the 2013
Independent Handbag Designer Awards Iconoclast
Recipient for Lifetime Achievement in Handbag
Design. Rafe Totengco has been a CFDA Member since
1998.
 GILOPEZ KABAYAO
TOYM Visual
And
Performing Arts Awardee (Music)

Why should be nominated?

INTRODUCTION
Tutored in music by his parents, violinist Doroteo
GILOPEZ KABAYAO was born on
December 23, 1929 at Fara-on, Kabayao and pianist Marcela Lopez. At nine, he played
the sugar plantation of his Violin Concerto with the local symphony in Fabrica,
family near Fabrica, Negros
Negros Occidental, where he was born in 1929. He
Occidental, the Philippines. His
maternal grandfather was Gil studied at Silliman and music schoolds in New York
Lopez, well-known Philippine and Vienna.
musician and composer who
taught his five daughters to sing At 19, Gilopez made his international debut at the
and play the violin, viola and Carnegie Hall in New York, accompanied on the piano
piano. His daughter Marcela, a
piano prodigy at nine and later
by his sister Marcelita, his partner when they toured
a teacher of that instrument, the southern provinces.
married Doroteo Kabayao, a
violinist as well as a surgeon Gilopez and his family brought classical music to the
and farmer. Doroteo had remotest parts of the country, earning him the
worked his way through Rush
Magsaysay Award for Public Service.
Medical College of the
University of Chicago in the His family is equally gifted. Wife Corazon Pineda is a
United States, playing his violin.
Born into such a musical family
music graduate of the University of Santo Thomas,
GILOPEZ and his three sisters— magna cum laude. She and Gilopez have performed in
Punay, Nita and Marcelita— Europe, the United States and Asia. She has authored
were early introduced to fine
music. All were to become
two art books and coauthored with her husband
distinguished performers, in Listening Program for the Filipino Youth. She has
particular GILOPEZ—named for produced numerous recordings on classical Filipino
his grandfather whose two
names were combined into
and praise music, instructional DVD on music.
one—and his youngest sister,
Marcelita.

INTRODUCTION
Jose Tanig Joya was born on
June 3, 1931, the son of Jose
Joya Sr. and Asuncion Tanig. He
began sketching at the age of
eleven. At a young age, he
became interested in studying
architecture, but found that he
did not have the aptitude for
the math and science that
architecture would require.
While attending the University
of the Philippines he was
introduced to the paintings of
Fernando Amorsolo, and began
his study of painting. He was
initially schooled in the
traditional tradition — in which
the standards had been set by
Amorsolo and Tolentino — but
gradually was influenced by
American abstraction and by
the emerging trends in
Philippine modernism. He was
mentored by Guillermo
Tolentino, Ireneo Miranda,
Domindaor Castaneda and
Virginia Agbayani.
JOSE T. JOYA
TOYM Visual
And
Performing Arts Awardee (Visual Arts)
Why should be nominated?
National artist Jose Joya was a pioneer modern and
abstract artist who was active as a painter,
printmaker, mixed-media artist and ceramicist. It has
been said that it was Joya who “spearheaded the
birth, growth and flowering of abstract
expressionism” in the Philippines. His mature abstract
works have been said to be “characterized by
calligraphic gestures and linear forces, and a sense of
color vibrancy emanating from an Oriental
sensibility.” Joya’s sense of color has been said to
have come from the hues of the Philippine landscape,
and his use of rice paper in collages demonstrated an
interest in transparency.
Joya graduated from the University of the Philippines
(UP) in 1953 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art,
earning the distinction of being the university’s first
Magna cum Laude. In 1954 the Instituto de Cultura
Hispanica of the Spanish government awarded him a
one year grant to study painting in Madrid.
Travel/study scholarships to Madrid — which came
about through the influence of PAG member
Fernando Zobel de Ayala — were also given to other
PAG artists including Arturo Luz, Nena Saguil and Larry
Tronco. After returning from Spain, Joya finished his
Master’s Degree in Painting in 1956 at the Cranbrook
School of Art in Michigan, with the assistance of a
Fulbright Smith-Mundt grant.