Danilo L "Danny" Zialcita was a Filipino film director, writer and producer.
10 Facts About Danny Zialcita
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Danny Zialcita made his directorial debut with Lady Killer, starring the suave Romano Castellvi in the title role.
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Where in the hand of a lesser auteur the portrayal of gay people, transvestites, bisexuals and the like would be stereotyped caricatures, Danny Zialcita directed such fare with class and panache.
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Timely with today's proliferation of video scandals, Danny Zialcita directed, seemingly with foresight about society's voyeuristic tendencies, The Betamax Story, starring Vilma Santos, with Pinky de Leon, Cherie Gil, Alma Moreno, Jean Saburit, Chichay, Elizabeth Oropesa, George Estregan and Beth Bautista.
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Danny Zialcita would go on to direct Cuneta for the second and last time in To Love Again, the title based on a song written by Odette Quesada, which marked the film debut of Miguel Rodriguez.
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Danny Zialcita worked a second time with Concepcion in what would turn out to be his swan song, Bakit iisa ang pag-ibig, which starred Snooky Serna.
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Historians, film critics and the stars themselves attested that Danny Zialcita liked his movie characters well-dressed, and the term "glossy melodrama" was famously coined for him in the 1980s.
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Danny Zialcita was cited by the Metro Manila Film Festival for Best Story, for Langis at tubig.
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Danny Zialcita was nominated by URIAN twice for screenplay and direction, for Hindi sa iyo ang mundo, Baby Porcuna and Ikaw at ang gabi.
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Danny Zialcita died on March 10,2013, after suffering a stroke.