Legacy
Synopsis
Lamberto Vera Avellana was born in Bontoc, Mountain Province was a prominent Filipino film and stage director. Despite considerable budgetary limitations that hampered the post-war Filipino film industry, Avellana’s films such as Anak Dalita and Badjao a.ained international acclaim. In 1976, Avellana was named as the first National Artist of the Philippines for Film.
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.
Genre
Biographies
Length
16
Pages
Size
10x8
Inches
Weight
250
Grams
Type
Soft Cover
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This series aims to present role models for young people to emulate. Each story in the series contains a central theme that exemplifies a moral value or characteristic or an exemplary incident in the life of each principal character.
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