National

Artist
In
Film
Catalino Ortiz Brocka

(April 3, 1939 – May 22, 1991)

Was a Filipino film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and
significant Filipino filmmakers in the history of Philippine cinema. In 1983, he founded the
organization Concerned Artists of the Philippines (CAP), dedicated to helping artists
address issues confronting the country.

Brocka was openly gay and often incorporated LGBT themes into his films. He directed
landmark films including Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang (1974), Maynila sa mga Kuko ng
Liwanag (1975), Insiang (1976), Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim (1984), and Orapronobis
(1989). In 1997, he was posthumously given the National Artist of the Philippines for Film
award for "having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts."
Gerardo de León

(September 12, 1913 – July 25, 1981

Was a Filipino actor-turned-film director. He made his acting debut in the 1934 film Ang
Dangal.

De Leó n, who was born Gerardo Ilagan, was a member of the Ilagan clan of Philippine
motion pictures, which includes Robert Arevalo, Conrado Conde, Angel Esmeralda, Eddie
Ilagan, Ronaldo Valdez, musical scorer Tito Arévalo, and his daughter Liberty Ilagan. De
Leó n was a medical doctor by profession, but his ultimate love for film has won him over.
He made eight more films as an actor before he became a director. He made his directorial
debut with Bahay-Kubo (1939), starring Fely Vallejo, who later became his wife. One of his
unfinished projects was Juan de la Cruz (1972) with Fernando Poe, Jr..
Lamberto Vera Avellana

(February 12, 1915 – April 25, 1991)

Was a prominent Filipino film and stage director. Despite considerable budgetary
limitations that hampered the post-war Filipino film industry, Avellana's films such as Anak
Dalita and Badjao attained international acclaim. In 1976, Avellana was named by
President Ferdinand Marcos as the very first National Artist of the Philippines for Film.
While Avellana remains an important figure in Filipino cinema, his reputation as a film
director has since been eclipsed by the next wave of Filipino film directors who emerged in
the 1970s, such as Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal.

Born in Bontoc, Mountain Province, Avellana was educated at the Ateneo de Manila AB '37,
where he developed what turned out to be a lifelong interest in the theater. He taught at the
Ateneo after graduation and married his teen-age sweetheart Daisy Hontiveros, an actress
who eventually also became a National Artist in 1999.
Ishmael Bernal

(30 September 1938 – 2 June 1996)

Was a Filipino film, stage and television director, actor and screenwriter. Noted for his
melodramas, particularly with feminist and moral issues, he directed many landmark
Filipino films such as Nunal sa Tubig (1975), City After Dark (1980), Relasyon (1982),
Himala (1982), and Hinugot sa Langit (1985). He was declared a National Artist of the
Philippines in 2001.

Born in Manila on 30 September 1938, Bernal was the son of Elena Bernal and Pacifico
Ledesma. He studied at Burgos Elementary School, Mapa High School and at the University
of the Philippines where he finished his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1959. After
graduation he worked with Lamberto Avellana's documentary outfit before proceeding to
France where he earned his Licentiate in French Literature and Philosophy at the
University of Aix-en-Provence. He received his Diploma in Film Directing in 1970 at the
Film Insititue of India in Poona under the Colombo plan scholarship.
Daisy Avellana

(January 26, 1917 – May 12, 2013)

Was a Filipino stage actress and theater director. Avellana was honored as a National Artist
of the Philippines for Theater and Film in 1999.

Avellana was born Daisy Hontiveros on January 26, 1917, in Capiz, Capiz, (now Roxas City).
Her husband was Lamberto Avellana, a film and stage director who was also named a
National Artist in 1976.[1] Daisy and Lamberto Avellana co-founded the Barangay Theater
Guild (BTG), together with forty-eight colleagues, in 1939.

Avellana died on May 12, 2013, at the age of 96.

 National
Artist
In
Architecture
Leandro Valencia Locsin

(August 15, 1928 – November 15, 1994)

Was a Filipino architect, artist, and interior designer known for his use of concrete, floating
volume and simplistic design in his various projects. An avid collector, he was fond of
modern painting and Chinese ceramics. He was proclaimed a National Artist of the
Philippines for Architecture in 1990 by the late President Corazon C. Aquino.

He was born Leandro Valencia Locsin on August 15, 1928, in Silay, Negros Occidental, a
grandson of the first governor of the province. He later studied at the De La Salle Brothers
in 1935 before returning to Negros due to the Second World War.
Pablo Sebero Antonio

(January 25, 1901 – June 14, 1975)

Was a Filipino architect. A pioneer of modern Philippine architecture, he was recognized in
some quarters as the foremost Filipino modernist architect of his time. He was conferred
the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos in
1976.

Antonio was born in Binondo, Manila in 1901. He was orphaned by the age of 12, and had
to work in the daytime in order to finish his high school education at night. He studied
architecture at the Mapua Institute of Technology but dropped out of school.
Ildefonso Paez Santos Jr.

(September 5, 1929 – January 29, 2014)

Popularly known simply as "IP Santos", was a Filipino architect who was known for being
the "Father of Philippine Landscape Architecture." He was recognized as a National Artist
of the Philippines in the field of Architecture in 2006.

He was the son of Filipino poet Ildefonso Santos and Asuncion Paez.

Santos graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in 1954 with a degree in the field of
architecture. He then pursued a second degree in Architecture, as well as a Master of
Architecture degree at the University of Southern California School of Architecture.
José María V. Zaragoza

(December 6, 1912-1994)
Zaragoza took up BS Architecture at the University of Santo Tomas where he graduated in
1936. He placed 7th in the licensure exams in the 1938.

He also had a diploma in liturgical art and architecture from the Rome-based International
Institute of Liturgical Art. At the Hilversun Technical Research Center in the Netherlands,
he obtained a diploma in comprehensive planning.

And he was a Filipino architect.

Juan F. Nakpil

(May 26, 1899 – May 7, 1986)

Was a Filipino architect, teacher and a community leader. In 1973, he was named one of the
National Artists for architecture. He also served as the Dean of Filipino Architects.

He was one of eight children of the Philippine Revolution veterans Julio Nakpil and
Gregoria de Jesú s (who married the former after the death of her first husband Andrés
Bonifacio). He died in Manila in 1986.