Ricky Lee

Ricardo Ricky Arreola Lee b March 19 1948 is a profilic Filipino screenwriter journalist novelist and playwright Starting in 1973 he has written more than 180 film screenplays and collaborated with many of the Philippines most notable filmmakers including Lino Brocka Marilou DiazAbaya and Ishmael Bernal Many of his films he written have been screened in international film festivals including Cannes Toronto and Berlin among others In 2022 Lee was conferred as National Artist of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts