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Behn Cervantes
Filipino artist and activist (–)
In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Holcombe and the surname or paternal family name is Cervantes.
Benjamín Roberto "Behn" Holcombe Cervantes (August 25, – August 13, ) was a Filipino artist and activist.
He was highly regarded as a theater pioneer, teacher, and progressive thinker who was detained multiple times during martial law in the Philippines.[1]
He directed the film Sakada (), about the struggle of Negrense peasants at a sugarcane plantation.
Copies of the film were seized by the military under the Marcos dictatorship.[2] Musical scorer Lutgardo Labad described the film as "a major cinematic coup that unearthed the inhuman conditions of our people then."[3] In , the film won a Dekada Award for Best Film of the Decade.[4]
At the University of the Philippines (UP), he founded the theater group UP Repertory Company[5] in "to