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(Narcisa de Leon AKA Doña Sisang)
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Doña Sisang headed as president the family-owned L.V.N. pictures, the pillar of local filmmaking, producing big stars, and helping popularize Tagalog movies.
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Her father, Justo Buencamino,  was killed in an ambush in 1901 by Filipino guerrillas while on his way to be installed by the US occupation troops as San Miguel's town mayor.  When her mother married her late husband's brother, Narcisa managed the household.
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In around 1905, she married Don Jose de Leon ("Kapitan Pepe") and turned her talents and energy to building a great fortune in rice haciendas and urban investments.  In her rise as enterpreneur, Doña Sisang was assisted by the political influence of her Buencamino kin including her uncle Don <a href="https://kahimyang.com/articles/2931/felipe-buencamino-a-controversial-figure-in-philippine-history-was-born-on-august-23-1848" class="news_link">Felipe Buencamino</a>, one of the founders of the Federalista Party and a prominent figure in colonial politics during the early years of the American occupation and member of the <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1028/today-in-philippine-history-march-22-1869-emilio-aguinaldo-was-born-in-kawit-cavite" class="news_link">Emilio Aguinaldo</a> cabinet.  Her cousin Felipe Buencaminno Jr.,  was a nationally powerful congressman for Nueva Ecija for many years.  Among her husband's kin and in-laws were provincial governors, congressmen, Senator Ceferino de Leon, and her daughter Doña Trinidad de Leon was the wife of <a href="https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1370/today-in-philippine-history-january-1-1892-manuel-roxas-was-born-in-capiz" class="news_link">Manuel Roxas</a>, Speaker of the House in the 1930s and first President of the independent Philippines.
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In 1938, Doña Sisang founded LVN Pictures, Inc., which under her management produced up to 26 Tagalog feature films per year from that time until the early 1960s.   It was in this field that her prominence spread throughout the country.  The name <i>"Doña Sisang"</i> became a household word, revered as the marker of the screen gods and goddesses idolized by the masses. She was the first to introduce color cinematography in the Philippines. The film <i>Ibong Adarna</i> was the first Filipino film with color sequences.
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October 29, 1877, Narcisa de Leon was born in San Miguel, Bulacan