1961: The first missionaries [to the Philippines], Elders Ray Goodson, Harry Murray, Kent Lowe and Nestor Ledesma, arrived in Manila on June 5, 1961.  The first two to be baptized by the missionaries were Jose Gutierez Sr. and Lino Brocka.
(Source: Church History in the Philipines, Church Almanac, 1997)

1970: He made his first film Wanted: Perfect Mother.  It combined the current hit The Sound of Music with a Filipino comic serial (a governess struggles with her brood of orphans), and achieved box office success.
(Source: Missions Impossible Filmmaking in the Philippines by Roger Garcia)

1978: He first attracted international attention at the Cannes Festival, with Insiang, his most internationally famous film.  It was the first Filipino film to show at the Cannes Film Festival.  It is set in the slums of Manila, and it tells the story of a beautiful girl who is raped by her mother's lover and then learns how to exact revenge.
(Source: IMDb)

1980: He made two controversial films.  Bona used well-known movie stars to make a film that attacked the star system.  Kontrobersyal condemned pornography but was itself deemed pornographic by many critics.
(Source: Missions Impossible Filmmaking in the Philippines by Roger Garcia)

1984: His entry for The Philippines in the Cannes Film Festival was disowned by the Filipino government.
(Source: Missions Impossible Filmmaking in the Philippines by Roger Garcia)

1987: Christian Blackwood made a 90-minute documentary film in the Philippines about Lino Brocka.  The film was titled Signed: Lino Brocka, and it won the 1988 Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.  The film portrays the great Filipino filmmaker as a patriot and a socialist. 
(Source: LDS Film.com)

1991: He was only 52 years old when he was killed in a car accident in Quezon City.
(Source: Filipino Filmmakers)

Trivia
He served briefly as a missionary in a leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai
(Source: LDS Film.com)

Although he was censored and imprisoned, he continued to fight censorship and agitate against the Marcos regime in both his life and his films.
(Source: Missions Impossible Filmmaking in the Philippines by Roger Garcia)

He never married.
(Source: Lino Brocka biography by Reena Famy Digo)

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The biography of Lino Brocka, published by the Cultural Center of the Philippines attempts to present a comprehensive view of the artist's life, with interviews and reviews of his most important films.  The volume includes a complete filmography of his works.  It also features essays written by highly qualified authors on the subject's contribution to contemporary Philippine culture and history. (Source: LDS Film.com)

(Source: Kabayan Central)