Lamberto V. Avellana

Lamberto V. Avellana was born in 1915 in Bontoc, in Mountain Province, in northern Luzon. Coming from the theatre, which he practised at the Ateneo de Manila, he married the actress Daisy Hontiveros and moved into cinema in 1939. He was one of the first in the country to make the camera a character's point of view, instead of placing it at eye level, which earned him the nickname “Boy Wonder”. In 1976 he was named the first National Artist of the Philippines for film. He died in 1991.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaA Portrait of the Artist as FilipinoLamberto V. Avellana · 1965Cinema