Lamberto V. Avellana

Famous Filipino Artist: Lamberto Vera Avellana was born on February 12, 1915 and died April 25, 1991. Lamberto V. Avellana was a prominent Filipino film and stage director. Despite considerable budgetary limitations that hampered the post-war Filipino film industry, Lamberto V. Avellana's films such as Anak Dalita and Badjao attained international acclaim. In 1976, Lamberto V. Avellana was named by President Ferdinand Marcos as the very first National Artist of the Philippines for Film. While Lamberto V. 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.

Lamberto V. Avellana made his film debut with Sakay in 1939, a biopic on the early 20th century Filipino revolutionary Macario Sakay. The film was an immediate sensation, particularly distinguished for its realism atypical of Filipino cinema. The treatment of the subject remains a source of some controversy today. Avellana's Sakay toed the line with the American-fostered perception of Sakay as a mere bandit, different from the current-day appreciation of Sakay as a fighter for Filipino independence. Raymond Red's 1993 film, Sakay hews closer to this modern view of Sakay. Interestingly, Leopoldo Salcedo, who played Sakay in the 1939 Lamberto V. Avellana version, portrayed Sakay's father in the 1993 version in his final film role.

Romeo Tanghal

Famous Filipino Artist: Romeo Tanghal is a famous Filipino comic book artist who has worked primarily as an inker. He became well-known in the industry in the 1980s for his work on DC Comics' The New Teen Titans. The Teen Titans, also known as The New Teen Titans, New Titans, or The Titans, is a DC Comics superhero team. Teen Titans animated television series ran on Cartoon Network from July 2003 to January 2006. Based on the 1980s version of the team but diverging from that continuity in some ways, the series spawned two related comic book titles, Teen Titans Go! and Tiny Titans.

Juan Paolo Aquino

Famous Filipino Photographer: Juan Paolo "Jaypee" Aquino is a famous Filipino film director and photographer. He is considered one of the most prolific directors in Filipino media today, having directed television shows and short films for almost a decade. His trademark, visually arresting images, has re-invented the pace and the look of the different lifestyle magazine shows that he has directed throughout the years in the Philippines.

In 2006, Juan Paolo Aquino started his own personal project and tried his knack for photography. He spent more than five months travelling around Southeast Asia and mainland China to document the wealth of cultures from the different countries in the region. Emotional Core was the name of the project, and is now presently exhibited in Uncut Creative's Web Gallery. Some of his works have also been selected to be a part of the Dazed And Confused European Exhibit Project.

A graduate of the London Film School, Juan Paolo Aquino lived in London for almost four years and worked in a number of international film productions before going back to Manila. Some of his films were exhibited in a number of major short film festivals all through Europe.

Famous Filipino Artist Fernando Zobel

Fernando Zobel y Montojo who was born on August 27, 1924 and died on June 2, 1984, also known as Fernando Zobel de Ayala y Montojo, Fernando M. Zobel, and Fernando M. Zóbel de Ayala, was a famous Filipino businessman, a famous Filipino modernist painter, and patron of the arts. Fernando Zobel, the son of Enrique Zobel de Ayala (1877-1943) and Fermina Montojo y Torrontegui, he was born in Ermita, Manila, and a member of the prominent Zobel de Ayala family. He graduated from Harvard University in 1949.

Fernando Zobel was one of the greatest Hispano-Filipino artists of his time, but ask laymen and experts alike and it would be evident that little is known of him apart from cursory information on his landmark paintings—or apart from whatever conceptions the lineage of his prominent surname brings.

Upon entering Harvard in 1946, although he decided to read history and literature, the first thing he did was to buy a box of oil paints. Without any academic training, he decided to paint. Painting was partly the reason why he later stayed on as a bibliographical researcher at the university. Around this time, he met the Boston artists Reed Champion and Jim Pfeufer who helped him launch his career as an artist.

Danny Sillada

Famous Filipino Artists: Danny C. Sillada (born in 1963 -, Cateel, Davao Oriental, Philippines) is a Filipino surrealist painter, poet, musician, philosopher, performance artist, and literary, art & cultural critic from Mindanao. He was a recipient of 2003 "Pasidungog Centennial Awards" for literary and visual arts, a centennial event that was attended by the president of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in his hometown province in Davao Oriental.

As a multi-talented artist, Danny Sillada also writes and publishes poetry and philosophical essays both on print and on-line, composes and performs ethnic songs, hip-hop and ethno-techno music at the local Metro Manila alternative venues. He was described in a research paper submitted to the University of Asia and the Pacific as “the embodiment of a Filipino who defies the existing trend. His multi-faceted attribute in the humanities, as a Renaissance man, is identical with those of well-rounded historical figures during the Renaissance period in Europe. Sillada is a visual artist recognized in the Philippine art scene for his paintings and installation artworks, a literary writer who is into prose and poetry, a philosopher, whose writings are akin with existentialism, a first-rate performance artist, and also an art-critic."