Ishmael Bernal

Ishmael Bernal September 30 1938 June 2 1996 was a Filipino film stage and television director actor and screenwriter Noted for melodramas with feminist and moral themes he directed many landmark Filipino films such as Pagdating sa Dulo 1971 Nunal sa Tubig 1976 Manila by Night 1980 Himala 1982 and Working Girls 1984 Bernal was declared a National Artist of the Philippines in 2001