Ricardo Lee
Writing
Born March 19, 1948 · Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines
Also known as Ricky Lee · Ricardo 'Ricky' Lee
Biography
Ricardo Arreola Lee (b. March 19, 1948), also known as Ricky Lee, is a profilic Filipino screenwriter, journalist, novelist, and playwright. Starting in 1973, he has written more than 180 film screenplays and collaborated with many of the Philippines' most notable filmmakers, including Lino Brocka, Marilou Diaz-Abaya, and Ishmael Bernal. Many of his films he written have been screened in international film festivals, including Cannes, Toronto, and Berlin, among others. In 2022, Lee was conferred as National Artist of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts.
Filmography41 titles
A Miracle
Once, I Loved You
Labs Kita...Okey Ka Lang?
If Only Love Has Chosen Me
New Moon
The Stepmother
Muling Umawit ang Puso
Dyesebel
Miracle
Ode to Nothing
Dubai
Kill Barbara With Panic
Haplos
Moral
Green Bones
The Trial
Nagsimula sa Puso
Cain and Abel
Wherever You Are
Of the Flesh
In My Own Hands
The Child
The Woman in the Septic Tank 3: The Real Untold Story of Josephine Bracken
Shake Rattle and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion
The '70s
Once Before
Eyes on Fire
Nerisa
I Will Only Love You Once
In My Life
Goodbye America
Metamorphosis
May-December-January
The Love Affair
Call Me Alma
They Are Mine
My Husband, My Lover
Sabel
I Will Survive
Palitan
Bekis on the Run