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Mario O'Hara's ‘Woman of Breakwater (Babae sa Breakwater)’, Philippines 2003 Australian Premiere at Adelaide Film Festival. "A community of fringe dwellers tries to eke out a living along the length of the Manila Bay sea wall, a place awash with the deitrus of the city. Two brothers arrive from the countryside and befriend a young girl forced into prostitution, who falls in love with one of them. Although these are the grimmest of lives, Mario O'Hara finds surreal beauty, compassion and strength in his cast of the homeless, the deranged, criminals, whores and children. This is O'Hara's 25th feature film."

About the Director Mario O'Hara — Mario O'Hara was born in 1946 in Zamboanga City, Philippines. He studied Chemical Engineering in Adamson University, but left school for a career in radio. He joined the Philippine Educational Theatre Association in 1969, where he met his long-time collaborator Lino Brocka. O'Hara wrote two of Brocka's works and acted in his melodrama Stardoom (1971). He was considered a major force in Filipino cinema in the 1970s when he released the historical epic Three Years Without God, often considered the best Filipino film ever made. Filmography Woman of Breakwater (2004) Hope of the Heart (aka Demons) (1999) Terror (1999) Sisa (1999) Woman on a Tin Roof (1998) Mama, dito sa aking puso (1998) The Fatima Buen Story (1994) The New King (1986) Prinsesang Gusgusin (1986) Monster in a Jar (1985) Flowers of the City Jail (1984) Condemned (1984) Bakit bughaw ang kulay ng langit? (1981) Kastilyong buhangin (1980) Three Mothers, One Child (1978) Captive Virgins (1977) Three Years Without God (1976).

Guest Book message from Jennifer O'Hara-Valencia on March 31, 2005 (Message 219) Hi! I'm Jenny O'Hara from Manila, Philippines. I'm an O'Hara too. It's nice to know that we have a website, I hope to trace my granpa's roots from the start. My granpa is a son of a Thomasite, an American Teacher who came to the Phils. to teach in the late 1800's. Hope you can help me in this quest.

Film Center of the University of the Philippines: Filmmaker Mario O'Hara O'Hara wrote and directed at least three major works during the 1970s. His first film, "Mortal" (1975), is about a man who goes insane and kills his wife. O'Hara tells the story backwards, starting from the man's time in a mental asylum - his head full of bizarre fantasies - to his eventual recovery and recollection of the murder. For his second project O'Hara was given a big-budgeted historical epic, starring popular actress Nora Aunor as a young girl struggling to survive during the Japanese Occupation. "Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos" (Three Years Without God, 1976) represented a quantum leap in scope and filmmaking skill for O'Hara, is regarded as his finest film, and possibly one of the finest Filipino films ever made. For his third project O'Hara wrote and directed most of "Mga Bilanggong Birhen" (The Captive Virgins, 1977), but left before shooting ended; the picture was finished without him. The film, about women surviving oppression in a patriarchal family, achieves moments of intense feeling and lyricism despite its unpolished state.

The Cinemanila Film Festival 2000: Mario O'Hara Ask anyone to recite the names of the great Filipino filmmakers of the'70s and the names Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal will come up ... O'Hara has been linked to Lino Brocka, particularly in the early years when they worked in collaboration; it's wrong, however, to call him Brocka's imitator ...

Mario O'Hara – Biograafia, Filmograafia – (s. 1946, Zamboanga City, Filipiinid) õppis Adamsoni Ülikoolis keemiainseneriks, kuid jättis stuudiumi pooleli ja alustas tööd raadios. 1969 astus ta Filipiini Haridusliku Teatri Liitu, kus tutvus oma hilisema koostööpartneri Lino Brockaga. O’Hara kirjutas kahele Brocka filmile stsenaariumi ja näitles tema melodraamas ”Stardom”. Ta tõusis Filipiini kino tugevaimaks tegijaks 1970. aastail, kui kirjutas muuhulgas stsenaariumi filmile: ”Three Years without God”, mida on sageli peetud Filipiini kõigi aegade parimaks filmiks – Mortal (1975), Tatlong taong walang diyos (Three Years Without God, 1976), Condemned (1984), Bulaklak ng City Jail (Flowers of the City Jail, 1984), Halimaw sa banga (Monster in a Jar, 1985), The Fatima Buen Story (1994), Babae sa bubungang lata (Woman On a Tin Roof, 1998), Sisa (1999), Sindak (Terror, 1999), Pangarap ng puso (Demons, 2000), Babae sa Breakwater (Woman of Breakwater, 2004)

Philippine director Mario O’Hara misses own Cannes showing O’Hara’s movie Woman of the Breakwater is being shown in the director’s fortnight at Cannes, but the acclaimed filmmaker will not be there for the honor because of claustrophobia. “I could not go, I have claustrophobia. I cannot ride a plane for a long time. I can take inter-island [plane] trips, but not outside the Philippines, I have panic attacks,” O’Hara told AFP in Manila. Manila Times, Philippines, May 24, 2004.

Cites Claustrophobia: Director Mario O'Hara won't go to Cannes showing of film O'Hara's movie "Babae sa Breakwater (Woman of the Breakwater )" is being shown in the director's fortnight at Cannes but the acclaimed film-maker will not be there for the honor because of claustrophobia ... While honored by the Cannes showing, O'Hara, 58, one of the most critically acclaimed directors in the Philippines, said he was never targeting the international filmfest circuit. Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 21, 2004.

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MSN Celebrity Information: Mario O'Hara Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Screen Story. Filmography,1974 - 1999.

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