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          Behn Cervantes was a theater pioneer, teacher and progressive thinker who devoted his life to the movement for social change and to the fight against.!

          Benjamín Roberto "Behn" Holcombe Cervantes (August 25, – August 13, ) was a Filipino artist and activist.

        1. Benjamín Roberto "Behn" Holcombe Cervantes (August 25, – August 13, ) was a Filipino artist and activist.
        2. During the relaunch of ABS-CBN in the late 80s, Ricky Lee opened doors for young writers to work with Behn Cervantes in a TV drama set in a sugar plantation.
        3. Behn Cervantes was a theater pioneer, teacher and progressive thinker who devoted his life to the movement for social change and to the fight against.
        4. Behn Cervantes was a leading light in the cultural sector's fight against the censorship and repression of the Marcos dictatorship.
        5. The life of Director Behn Cervantes has given us our most important lesson as concerned artists: stand in bravery in the face of persecution.
        6. Behn Cervantes

          Filipino artist and activist (1938–2013)

          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, 1938 – August 13, 2013) 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 (1976), 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 1981, 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 Com