Filipino father and Italian mother, Ruben Maria Soriquez (who has both citizenships and who is second of fourteen children of an enlarged family) started as a musician and ended up devoting himself to filmmaking and acting only at 34 years of age, after experiencing many different professions. Ruben studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy and acting with Actors' Studio of New York's teacher Danny Lemmo (acting for films) and Emanuele Montagna of the Colli School of Theatre of Bologna. As an actor he has won several awards in minor film festivals for portraying a missionary in his film "Of Sinners and Saints" which depicts poverty and violence on women and children in the Philippines. Recently he has appeared in 80 episodes on prime time of a popular Philippine soap opera and in the international film General Commander starring Steven Seagal. As a filmmaker Ruben loves to craft almost all the aspect of his films: from writing to directing, editing and grading sometimes also scoring a few scenes. His last works is "The Spiders' Man" (2018) a dark comedy/thriller and "A Perfect Family" (2017) an experimental silent film. Being at home in both countries, Ruben is engaged in promoting Philippine Cinema in Europe and Italian Cinema in the Philippines.