- Mauro Gia Samonte is known for Burlesk Queen (1977), Machete: Istatwang buhay (1990) and Iiyak ka rin (1983).
- A screenplay writer, film director, and journalist.
- He dropped out of a civil engineering course at the Mapua Institute of Technology in the 60s and pursued a career in literature.
- His first fiction, Forests of the Heart, published by the Weekly Graphic in 1965, was used for the film Tag-ulan sa tag-araw (1975).
- In the 1970s, he established his name as a movie journalist, and became the entertainment editor of the Weekly Nation and editor of Movie Confidential.
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