Miguel "Mike" Pamintuan de Leon was a Filipino film director. He is regarded as one of the most significant filmmakers in the history of Philippine cinema. His films, which include Itim, Kung Mangarap
Kisapmata is a 1981 Filipino psychological horror drama film directed by Mike de Leon from a screenplay he co-wrote with Clodualdo del Mundo Jr. and Raquel Villavicencio. It stars Vic Silayan, Charo S
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Charo Santos in 2014, president and CEO of ABS-CBN at the time. She was a line producer on Kisapamata, which she also starred in.
The film has been viewed by film academics as an allegory of President Ferdinand Marcos's (pictured above) regime. It was released on the year that martial law was officially lifted.