Lav Diaz

Lav Diaz or Lavrente Indico Diaz (born December 30, 1958 in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao ) is a Filipino film director.

Life

Diaz, whose parents were both teachers at the local school, studied at the Mowelfund Film Institute. He worked for a music magazine and experimented with photography and writing before getting into film production.

In the 1990s he lived temporarily in New Jersey and New York, where his film Batang West Side was made. His films, which mostly deal with the recent history of his home country, are present at international festivals and have been awarded numerous prizes. He is known among other things for the extraordinary running times of his films. Evolution of Filipino Family , a family drama about the time of the Marcos dictatorship, which was written over a period of ten years, has a length of 660 minutes. Diaz achieved his greatest success to date with the five and a half hour historical drama Mula sa kung ano ang noon , for which he received the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2014 . Again he dealt in the film with the effects of the Marcos dictatorship.

Lav Diaz at the Berlinale in February 2016

In 2016, Diaz received an invitation to compete at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival for his feature film Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis (A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery) . He describes the eight-hour black and white film about Andrés Bonifacio as “a marriage between history, literature and mythology.” In the same year, Diaz competed with the almost four-hour work Ang Babaeng Humayo in the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and won the main prize with the Golden Lion of the festival. The drama centers on a Filipino wife and mother (played by Charo Santos-Concio ) who is released from the labor camp after thirty years in prison on a false murder charge. She decides to take revenge on her ex-lover - the author of the intrigue that brought her to prison.

In 2017 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography

• Serafin Geronimo: Kriminal ng Barrio Concepcion - Criminal of Barrio Concepcion, 1998
• Burger Boys , 1999
• Hubad sa Ilalim ng Buwan - Naked Under the Moon, 1999
• Batang West Side - West Side Kid, 2002
• Hesus Rebolusyunaryo - Jesus, Revolutionary, 2002
• Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino - Evolution of a Filipino Family, 2004
• Heremias (Unang Aklat: Ang Alamat ng Prinsesang Bayawak) - Heremias (Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess), 2006
• Kagadanan Sa Banwaan Ning Mga Engkanto - Death in the Land of Encantos, 2007
• Melancholia , 2008
• Walang alaala ang mga paru-paro - Butterflies Have No Memory, 2009
• Babae ng Hangin - Woman of The Wind, 2011
• Century of Birthing , 2011
• Florentina Hubaldo, CTE , 2012
• Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan - Norte, the End of History, 2013.
• Mula sa kung ano ang noon - From What Is Before, 2014
• Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis - A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, 2016
• Ang Babaeng Humayo - The Woman Who Left, 2016
• Ang panahon ng halimaw - Season Of The Devil, 2018
• Ang Hupa - The Halt, 2019

Prices

• Golden Lion for the film Ang Babaeng Humayo (The Woman Who Left), Venice International Film Festival 2016
• Golden Leopard for the film Mula sa kung ano ang noon (From what was), Locarno International Film Festival 2014
• NETPAC Prize (Best Asian Film) for the film Florentina Hubaldo, CTE , Jeonju International Film Festival 2012
• On Screen Award (Best Film, International Competition) for the film, Florentina Hubaldo, CTE , The Images Festival 2012, Toronto
• Grand Jury Prize for the film, Century of Birthing , Cinemanila International Film Festival 2011
• Guggenheim Fellowship 2010
• Grand Prize-Orizzonti (2008, Melancholia , Venice International Film Festival )
• NETPAC Prize, Best Asian Feature (2008, Death in the Land of Encantos , Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival)
• Silver Hanoman (2008, Death in the Land of Encantos , Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival)
• Young Critics Circle Awardee (2008, Death in the Land of Encantos ; Best Achievement in Cinematography and Visual Design)
• Venice Horizons Special Mention Awardee (2007, Death in the Land of Encantos ; Venice International Film Festival)
• Special Jury Prize Awardee (2006, Heremias , Freiburg International Film Festival )
• Grand Prix Nominee (2006, Heremias , Freiburg International Film Festival)
• Gawad Urian Award Nominee (2007, Imahenasyon , Best Short Film)
• Gawad Urian Awardee (2005, Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino , Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Production Design)
• Netpac Awardee [2001 Cinemanila International Film Festival, Batang West Side ; Best Acting Ensemble (Joel Torre, Yul Servo, Art Acuna, Ruben Tizon)]
• Gawad Urian Awardee [2002, Batang West Side ; Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Actor (Joel Torre), Best Supporting Actor (Raul Arellano), Best Supporting Actress (Gloria Diaz), Best Production Design, Best Music, Best Sound]
• Silver Screen Awardee (2002, Batang West Side ; Best Asian Feature Film, Singapore International Film Festival)
• Brussels Film du Independent Awardee [2002, "Batang West Side"; Best Picture, Best Actors (Joel Torre and Yul Servo)]
• Star Awards [2002, Batang West Side ; Best Supporting Actress (Gloria Diaz), Best Cinematography]
• Silver Screen Award Nominee (2000, Hubad sa Ilalim ng Buwan , Best Asian Feature Film)
• Urian Awardee [1998, criminal ng Baryo Concepcion ; Best Actor (Raymond Bagatsing)]
• Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (1996, "West Side Avenue, JC", screenplay)
• Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (1992, "Ang Pinagdaanang Buhay ...", short story)
• Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (1990, "Pula, Puti at saka Blu at marami Pang Korol", short story)
• Film Development Council Screenwriting Award (1997, "Ang Kriminal ng Baryo Concepcion", screenplay)
• SANDUGO Awards (1986, "Ang Anino ni Macliing Dulag", essay)

literature

• Axel Estein: Play of light and shadow in the intra- tropical  convergence zone.  In: Lukas Foerster, Nikolaus Perneczky, Fabian Tietke, Cecilia Valenti (eds.): Traces of a Third Cinema. On the aesthetics, politics and economy of world cinema. Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 168–202.

Web links

• Lav Diaz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• [3] New Filipino Cinema, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• [4] Corporal Histories: Lav Diaz's Epic Philippine Cinema (Exit Art of New York Retrospective)
• Video interview Cargo Magazine
• The Films of Lav Diaz
• A Conversation with Lav Diaz by Alexis Tioseco Criticine.com
• A Conversation with Lav Diaz La furia umana, n.9, Summer 2011 [lafuriaumana.it]
• [5] 11 Hours in a Life's Cause by Lim Li Min (New York Times)
• Texts about Lav Diaz's films on critic.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ New York Times
2. ↑ Catálogo BAFICI 2008 , Ministerio de Cultura, Gob Ciudad de Buenos Aires publishing house
3. ↑ The Decade of Living Dangerously Interview with Brandon Wee, FilmsAsia
4. ↑ [1]
5. ↑ [2]
6. ↑ Lav Diaz Film is Official Entry to this Year's Berlinale Main Competition at philippine-embassy.de, January 21, 2016 (accessed on January 29, 2016).
7. ^ "La Biennale di Venezia - Official Awards of the 73rd Venice Film Festival". Accessed September 10, 2016. Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
8. ↑ “One violin is enough”. Film Festival, September 9, 2016. http://blogs.faz.net/filmfestival/2016/09/09/eine-geige-genuegt-779/ .
9. ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
10. ↑ A murder for which the wrong person is atone in FAZ of December 24, 2014, page 24