Lamberto V. Avellana

Lamberto Vera Avellana NA February 12 1915 April 25 1991 was a prominent Filipino film and stage director Despite considerable budgetary limitations that hampered the postwar Filipino film industry Avellanas films such as Anak Dalita and Badjao attained international acclaim In 1976 Avellana was named by President Ferdinand Marcos as the 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