Kidlat Tahimik
Kidlat Tahimik is famous for his criticisms of the state and the culture that colonialism creates, much like the Third Cinema filmmakers from Cuba, South America, France, USA, India, and Senegal. The Philippine film-industry produces over a 150 entertainment films a year, which Tahimik sees as a mandate from the status quo to have 80 or 90 percent of its production policy sexual and violent content. Tahimik is outside of this production context; and preoccupied with what happens to how young Filipinos watch, think and act after witnessing these establishment films, Tahamik develops narratives that are very critical of Western society. The Philippine director has always worked towards the enlightenment of the masses, as other revolutionary filmmakers in the world, and his admiration for Third Cinema has even led him to plan a film to be called Memories of Overdevelopment, inspired by Gutierrez Alea´s film.