Tikoy Aguiluz

Who is Tikoy Aguiluz?

Amable "Tikoy" Aguiluz is an award winning Filipino film director, film producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.

Aguiluz founded the Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila in 1999.

Tikoy Aguiluz is one of the leading figures in the alternative cinema movement in the Philippines. Educated at the University of the Philippines, he is acknowledged as the co-founder in 1976 of UP Film Center where he served until 1990 as its Assistant Director and also spearheaded the association called Chamber Film Group. He was a recipient of a John D. Rockefeller III Grant to study filmmaking at the New York University and film archiving at the Library of Congress Film Archives in Washington, DC, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A British Council Grant led to further film studies and training in film archiving at the British Film Institute.

He had worked in various capacities in film projects with other important Filipino directors his senior, including National Artist Lino Brocka. He first made his mark with the 15-minute documentary, Mt. Banahaw, Holy Mountain. The film won Silver Trophy at the prestigious Young Filmmakers of Asia Festival in Iran.