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Kidlat Tahimik
Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in Baguio City, Philippines), better known as Kidlat Tahimik (a Tagalog translation of "silent lightning"), is a film director, writer and actor…
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Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in Baguio City, Philippines), better known as Kidlat Tahimik (a Tagalog translation of "silent lightning"), is a film director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated with the Third Cinemamovement through their critiques of neocolonialism. One of the most prominent names in the Filipino film industry, he has garnered various accolades locally and internationally, including a Plaridel honorarium for Independent Cinema. He is dubbed by fellow filmmakers and critics as the "Father of Philippine Independent Cinema".
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
First Light
Movie Diwa
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2025
Cinemartyrs
Movie Tatay Kidlat
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2025
Bulakna
Movie
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2023
Lucid
Movie Himself
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2020
Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
Movie Director
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2019
Journey
Movie Director
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2018
A Man Who Became Cinema
Movie
- 2017
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2015
Ode to Dreamers
Movie Panaginip Pictures CEO
- 2015
- 2011
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2010
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Movie Himself
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2006
Roofs of the World! Unite!
Movie Director
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2006
Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
Movie Director
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2005
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
Movie Director
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2005
Some More Rice
Movie Director
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2003
Holy Wood
Movie Director
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1998
José Rizal
Movie La Liga Filipina Guest
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1996
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
Movie Himself
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1995
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
Movie Director
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1995
Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
Movie Director
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1994
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
Movie Writer
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1992
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
Movie Director
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1991
A Movie Capital
Movie Self
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1991
Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
Movie Director
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1984
Memories of Overdevelopment
Movie Director
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1982
Shaman Wars
Movie Shaman
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1981
I am Blushing
Movie Kidlat, the driver
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1981
Turumba
Movie Director
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1980
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
Movie Director
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1979
Perfumed Nightmare
Movie Kidlat
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1979
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
Movie Kidlat
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1974
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Movie Hombrecito, the Indian
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