Kidlat Tahimik
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday3 October 1942 (83 years old)
Place of birthBaguio City, Benguet, Philippines
Known credits34
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".
First Light
2026 · Diwa
Cinemartyrs
2025 · Tatay Kidlat
Bulakna
2025
Lucid
2023 · Himself
Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
2020 · Director
Journey
2019 · Director
Journey
2019 · Screenplay
A Man Who Became Cinema
2018
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017 · Director
Ode to Dreamers
2015 · Panaginip Pictures CEO
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015 · Director
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010 · Himself
Roofs of the World! Unite!
2006 · Writer
Roofs of the World! Unite!
2006 · Director
Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
2006 · Director
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
2005 · Director
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
2005 · Writer
Some More Rice
2005 · Director
Some More Rice
2005 · Writer
Holy Wood
2003 · Director
Holy Wood
2003 · Writer
José Rizal
1998 · La Liga Filipina Guest
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996 · Himself
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996 · Director
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996 · Writer
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996 · Director of Photography
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
1995 · Director
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
1995 · Writer
Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
1995 · Director
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994 · Director of Photography
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994 · Writer
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994 · Director
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994 · Editor
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
1992 · Director
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
1992 · Writer
A Movie Capital
1991 · Self
Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
1991 · Writer
Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
1991 · Director
Memories of Overdevelopment
1984 · Director
Memories of Overdevelopment
1984 · Writer
Shaman Wars
1982 · Shaman
I am Blushing
1981 · Kidlat, the driver
Turumba
1981 · Director
Turumba
1981 · Writer
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
1980 · Writer
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