Translations and Collaborative

Works of
National Artists
• While artists may create work
independently, artistic collaborations
help develop projects involving
elaborate production work, as in the
case film or theater.
 Genghis Khan
Collaborative works of Manuel
Conde and Carlos Francisco
Manuel Conde

- A filipino actor, director,

and producer and one of
the National Artist of the
Philippines (2009)
- One of his famous
works is the Genghis
Khan.

- He was honored in 2006

the Presidential Medal of
Merit (for Films) by
President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo for his
contribution to culture and
the arts
Carlos “Botong” Francisco

• most distinguish
practitioner of mural
paintings particularly
historical pieces.

• one of the first • He was rewarded as the

Filipino modernist National Artist for Painting and
painter. was considered as the greatest
muralist of the country
• he is also the
script writer of the • 1964 Republic of the
Genghis Khan film. Philippines Cultural
Heritage awardee.
• In 1950, the film maker Manuel Conde and the painter
Carlos Francisco worked together to create this classic
film ever.
• Genghis Khan is about telling the tale of the
conqueror’s rite of passage from warrior to overlord.
• Because of Francisco’s Imaginative production design
enriches Conde’s cinematic vision they were able to
produced a classic film.
• Genghis Khan was the first Filipino film to be acclaimed
at an international film festival in Venice in 1952.
• The film made it to the favorite list of international
critics for its innovative techniques and remarkable
narrative elements using the cinematic medium.

• Even though the film was created in a shoe-string

budget Conde made his efforts by resorting to creative
means in staging the light, procuring the costumes and
shooting the film together with Fransciso.

• the film was first screened at the 1952 Venice Film

festival and was awarded for its technical
achievement.

• also received a good review from its screening at

the 1952 Edinburg Film Festival.

• the film was also nominated for the Golden

Lion Award
Tales of the Manuvu

• a pop-rock opera, performed at the CCP in 1985.

• was benefitted by several National Artists.

• Scholar, poet, and teacher Bienvenido

Lumbera, National Artist for Literature
(awarded 2006) – he wrote the libretto.

• Founder of Ballet Philippines Alice

Reyes, National Artist for Dance
(awarded 2014) – she choreographed
the performance.
• Salvador Bernal, National Artist for
Theater (awarded 2003) – took for
the costumes and designs.
Narratives in existing literary works sometimes become
the basis of model and the performing arts.

- The combination of drawings an stories popularizes by the

prolific Francisco V. Coching ( awarded 2014) in comics
inspires filmmakers to create adaptations on big screen.

•Perdro Penduko – a young super hero first

appearded in Cochings’s work, The Liwayway
comics and animated into film on 1954 by
Gerardo de Leon, National Artist for Film
(awarded 1982)
In the same decade, the poet, novelist, and
playwright Nick Joaquin, National Artist
for Literature (awarded 1976), wrote

A Portrait of the Artist as Filipinos

-This was adapted for film in 1965 by

Lamberto Avellana, National Artist for Film
( awarded 1976) and wife and collaborator,
the actress, director, and writer Daisy
Hontiveros Avellana, National Artist for
Theather (awarded 1999) she played the
lead character (Candida Marasigan) in both
films and theater.