Ishmael Bernal

Ishmael Bernal

personal-info

known-for

Directing

gender

Male

birthday

1938-09-30

place-of-birth

Manila, Philippines

also-known-as

اسماعیل برنال

biography

Ishmael Bernal was a Filipino film, stage and television director, actor and screenwriter. Noted for melodramas with feminist and moral themes, he directed many landmark Filipino films such as Pagdating sa Dulo (1971), Nunal sa Tubig (1976), Manila by Night (1980), Himala (1982), and Working Girls (1984). Bernal was declared a National Artist of the Philippines in 2001.