Scorpio Nights

Gallaga spent his elementary and high school years at De La Salle University in Manila, then finished commerce and liberal arts at the school’s Bacolod campus. He taught theater and film at the University of St. La Salle. Upon moving back to Manila, he got involved in television musicals and eventually co-directed the film Binhi with Butch Perez.He also directed the movies Scorpio Nights, Unfaithful Wife, some episodes of Shake, Rattle and Roll, Baby Love and Magic Temple.In the animated movie Dayo, Gallaga voiced the character of “Lolo Nano,” the resident sage of Elementalia.Gallaga and Laida Lim-Pérez won Best Production Design for Eddie Romero’s Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon? in the first 1976 of Gawad Urian awards. In 1980, he won the same award for Ishmael Bernal’s City after Dark. He also served as member of the Film Academy Classification Board (FACB) during the 1980s.Gallaga lives with his wife Madie in Bacolod City, where he is also the Artist in Residence at the University of St. La Salle. He is also a father to an HIV-positive son, Wanggo. —Wikipedia