Boy Yñiguez

Roberto "Boy" Yñiguez is a Filipino cinematographer and photographer.[1] He won the Gawad Urian Award for Best Cinematography in 2007 for the film The Bet Collector, as well as the Luna Award for Best Cinematography in 2018 for Ang Larawan.[2][3]

Education

Yñiguez graduated from the Development Academy of the Philippines.[4]

Career

In 1978, Yñiguez and writer Alfred A. Yuson designed the "Handumanan" yearbook of the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod at the invitation of future filmmaker Peque Gallaga.[5]

By the early 1980s, Yñiguez served as a creative collaborator of filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik for documentary projects commissioned by West German television, among which was the 1981 short film Olympic Gold (later re-edited by Tahimik into the feature-length film Turumba in 1983).[6]

As an artist, Yñiguez is based in Baguio.[6][7]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Director Note(s) Ref(s).
1972 Growth of a Village Boy Yñiguez Animated student short film [8]
1981 Olympic Gold Kidlat Tahimik 45-minute installment of Vater Unser
I Am Blushing Vilgot Sjöman as first assistant cameraman [6]
1982 Shaman Wars Alfred "Kip" Yuson
Boy Yñiguez
Reuben Domingo 		Short film [8]
1983 Turumba Kidlat Tahimik Re-edited from Olympic Gold
1991 Takedera Mon Amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection as "additional kamera"
1993 Gaano Kita Kamahal Butch Perez
1994 Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? Kidlat Tahimik as "additional camera"
Original title: Bakit Dilaw ang Gitna ng Bahaghari?
2001 The Last Parian Peter Chua Short film [9]
Tuhog Jeffrey Jeturian with Shayne Clemente and Sherman So [10]
2003 1st Time Lyle Nemenzo Sacris with Neil Daza and Robert Quebral [11]
2006 The Bet Collector Jeffrey Jeturian Original title: Kubrador [12]
2010 Ang Balikbayan: Memories of Overdevelopment 1980–2010 Kidlat Tahimik Short film
Shot from 1978 to 2010
I Do Veronica B. Velasco
2011 Bisperas Jeffrey Jeturian [13]
2013 Puti Miguel "Mike" Alcazaren [14]
2015 Tragic Theater Tikoy Aguiluz
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment, Redux III Kidlat Tahimik Shot from 1978 to 2015 [15]
Invisible Lawrence Fajardo Original title: Imbisibol
2017 I'm Drunk, I Love You JP Habac
Kita Kita Sigrid Andrea Bernardo
Last Night Joyce Bernal
Ang Larawan Loy Arcenas
2018 Mr. & Mrs. Cruz Sigrid Andrea Bernardo
2019 Maledicto Mark Meily [16]
UnTrue Sigrid Andrea Bernardo
2020 Kintsugi Lawrence Fajardo
2021 My Amanda Alessandra De Rossi
2023 BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment, Redux VII Kidlat Tahimik Shot from 1978 to 2023 [17]
2024 Under Parallel Skies Sigrid Andrea Bernardo
The Hearing Lawrence Fajardo
2025 I'mPerfect Sigrid Andrea Bernardo

Commercials

Year Title Client Creative director Director Note(s) Ref(s).
1988 "Pu-Yi" Knorr Chinese Soup Joy Cortez Boldy Tapales [18]
1989 "Boom" San Miguel Beer Erwin Castillo [19]
1999 "Parachute" Johnson's Floor Wax Irwin Castillo Jun Reyes [18]
2004 "Reinforcement" Sony Television [20]
2016 "Finding Pia" BDO Joel Eudela Carlo Directo [21]

References

  1. ^ Teodoro, Luis V. (5 October 2002). "Forgetting, or Not Knowing: Media and Martial Law". Luis Teodoro. Retrieved 23 January 2026. Photo by Boy Yñiguez from 'People Power: The Philippine Revolution of 1986: An Eyewitness History.'
  2. ^ Reyes, William R. (20 April 2011). "Gawad Urian picks the Ten Best Films of the Decade (2000-2009)". PEP.ph. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  3. ^ "Larawan, Changing Partners, 7 Sundays are the top nominees in Saturday's Luna Awards". BusinessWorld Online. 28 September 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  4. ^ Yuson, Alfred A., ed. (2003). Espiritu Santi: The Strange Life and Even Stranger Legacy of Santiago Bose. Makati City: Water Dragon. ISBN 978-971-93112-0-1. Retrieved 23 January 2026. He [Boy Yñiguez] started out at Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) together with Santi [Bose...]
  5. ^ Yuson, Alfred A. (18 May 2020). "Farewell to Peque". Philstar.com. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  6. ^ a b c Yonzon III, Hugo (July 1984). "Short Filmmakers Provide Alternative Choices in Foreign Places". SineManila. Vol. 1, no. 1. pp. 10, 14. For the past years, [Eric] de Guia, teaming up with another filmmaker from Baguio City named Boy Yñiguez, has been doing documentaries for German television.
  7. ^ Caluza, Desiree (3 December 2003). "Artist Santi Bose's home in Sagada's morning mist". Philippine Daily Inquirer. p. A20. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  8. ^ a b Deocampo, Nick (1985). Yuson, Alfred A. (ed.). Short Film: Emergence of a New Philippine Cinema. Old Santa Mesa, Manila: Communication Foundation for Asia. pp. 25, 64.
  9. ^ Salterio, Leah (23 February 2001). "Joe D'Mango says goodbye". Philippine Daily Inquirer. p. A29. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  10. ^ Francisco, Butch (18 November 2000). "Tuhog strings 2 movies in one". Philstar.com. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  11. ^ "UP Film Institute Filmography of Films 2003" (PDF). Plaridel. 1 (1): 131. February 2004. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  12. ^ Calderon, Ricky L. (3 March 2006). "Mark Bautista, Boy Next Door No More". Philstar.com. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  13. ^ Lapuz, Ferdinand (31 October 2011). "Bisperas wins in Tokyo". Philstar.com. Manila, Philippines. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  14. ^ Alcazaren, Paulo (11 October 2014). "'Puti' at Brussels: The bizarre and the beautiful". Philstar.com. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  15. ^ Small, Christopher (16 April 2019). ""That's Thirty Years of Footage I've Accumulated": Kidlat Tahimik on BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment and His Pioneering Career in the Philippines". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  16. ^ Bonifacio, Julie E. (9 May 2019). "Inah de Belen: "I'm always in the shadow of my mom, shadow of my dad."". PEP.ph (in Filipino and English). Retrieved 23 January 2026. '[...]and our DOP [Director of Photgraphy], Direk Boy Yniguez.'
  17. ^ Bracamonte, Earl D.C. (10 April 2023). "National Artist Kidlat Tahimik finally finishes film after 45 years". Philstar.com. Philstar Global Corp. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  18. ^ a b "Philippines' 25 best ads over the past 50 years". Philippine Daily Inquirer. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc. 6 September 2002. p. B6. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  19. ^ "Fiestas in SMC TV ads". Manila Standard. 15 March 1989. p. 14. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  20. ^ Guerrero, Angel V. (17 June 2005). "Best ads for 2004 win gold". Philippine Daily Inquirer. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc. p. B2-2. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
  21. ^ Franco-Diyco, Nanette (16 September 2016). "BDO finds ways". BusinessWorld Online. Retrieved 23 January 2026.
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