Personal Info
Birthday
October 3, 1942
Place of Birth
Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
Known For
Directing
Kidlat Tahimik
Biography
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".
Directed Movies (20)
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Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
Movie2020
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Journey
Movie2019
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BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
Movie2017
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Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
Movie2015
No Backdrop
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Roofs of the World! Unite!
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
Movie2006
No Backdrop
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Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
Movie2005
No Backdrop
6.0
Some More Rice
Movie2005
No Backdrop
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Holy Wood
Movie2003
No Backdrop
8.0
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
Movie1996
No Backdrop
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Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
Movie1995
No Backdrop
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Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
Movie1995
No Backdrop
6.3
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
Movie1994
No Backdrop
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Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
Movie1992
No Backdrop
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Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
Movie1991
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Memories of Overdevelopment
Movie1984
6.2
Turumba
Movie1981
No Backdrop
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Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
Movie1980
7.3
Perfumed Nightmare
Movie1979
7.5
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
Movie1979
Acting Filmography (19)
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First Light
Movie2026
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Cinemartyrs
Movie2025
No Backdrop
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Bulakna
Movie2025
No Backdrop
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Lucid
Movie2023
No Backdrop
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A Man Who Became Cinema
Movie2018
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BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
Movie2017
No Backdrop
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Ode to Dreamers
Movie2015
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Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
Movie2015
No Backdrop
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Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
Movie2011
No Backdrop
4.8
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Movie2010
9.0
José Rizal
Movie1998
No Backdrop
8.0
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
Movie1996
No Backdrop
6.0
A Movie Capital
Movie1991
No Backdrop
0.0
Shaman Wars
Movie1982
No Backdrop
9.0
I am Blushing
Movie1981
7.3
Perfumed Nightmare
Movie1979
7.5
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
Movie1979
7.3
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Movie1974
No Backdrop
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Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva
MovieN/A