Ruben Maria Soriquez

As a director, Soriquez, after making his debut with the documentary Montovolo: History, Nature and Legend [2] in 2011, directed Sexocracy: The Man of Bunga Bunga ,[3] a documentary feature film based on a long interview with Lele Mora[4] on the Italian entertainment system and its relationship with Silvio Berlusconi. Sexocracy was released in theaters in May 2012 and received a nomination for Best Documentary at the 2012 New York City International Film Festival.[5][6]

In 2013, Soriquez wrote, directed, and did the photography of The Broken Crown,[7] a coproduction of Italy, Germany, and the Philippines. Among the actors were Andrea Roncato , Tony Sperandeo , Horst Janson (a monument Cinema Teutonic), Massimo Bonetti , Manuela Morabito, and Ron Williams. Soriquez also continued directing documentaries about nature for the WWF of Italy, as well as about history and art.

Ruben moved to the Philippines in late 2013, where he founded See Thru Pictures, Inc.,[8] a film production and distribution company. With See Thru Pictures, Soriquez produced and acted in 2015 the movie Of Sinners and Saints,[9] where Raymond Bagatsing, Polo Ravales, Richard Quan, and Althea Vega were also cast.[10] For his lead role in Of Sinners and Saints, Soriquez won Best Actor in the 2015 World Premieres Film Festival[11][12] He got his first television drama role in Dolce Amore in 2016, playing Roberto Marchesa,[13] the adoptive father of Liza Soberano's character, Serena. In 2017 he appeared in two Star Cinema films: Can't help falling in love starring Daniel Padilla and Kathrine Bernardo and Unexpectedly Yours starring Robin Padilla and Sharon Cuneta. in 2019 Ruben Maria Soriquez is back on the small screen with the action TV series The General's Daughter, playing the role of weapons smuggler David Pascal .

Since 2007 Ruben has produced several titles among which feature films[14] ( like Of Sinners and Saints) and TV movies , (among the TV movies the horror films: Arachnicide and Dead Gamers[15] both directed by Italian director Paolo Bertola). Ruben is one of the few contemporary filmmakers to produce and direct silent films (A Perfect Family and The Silent Killer the latter scored by Italian composer Franco Eco [16]) to be premiered at the International Silent Film Festival Manila.[16]

In 2018 Ruben enters the cast of the TV series General Commander starring Steven Seagal with the role of the mafioso Santino Amato. In the following year 3 films in which he stars (Of Sinners and Saints, The Spiders' Man , The Lease and Entrapped) are released in the US.[17]

Ruben Maria Soriquez is at present (2015-2018) a Board Member of the ICCPI Italian Chamber of Commerce in The Philippines Inc., promoting the Culture of Italy in South East Asia especially in The Philippines.[18] In 2017 with the ICCPI, the Dante Alighieri Society of Manila and the Embassy of Italy in Manila, he founded The Venice Film Festival in Manila, an Italian Film Festival that screened in Manila a selection of Italian Films of the Venice Film Festival 2016.[19] The festival changed its name to "Italian Cinema: from Venice to Manila" for the 2018 edition where Italian films from the Venice Film Festival 2017 were screened.[20] In 2016 his film Of Sinners and Saints represented Italy together with the film My Friends (film) of Mario Monicelli at the 19th Cine Europa in Manila.[21] In 2017 his contemporary Silent film A Perfect Family represented Italy[22] at the 11th International Silent Film Festival Manila [23] and his 2020 silent film The Silent Killer was one of the two Italian entries to the 14th International Silent Film Festival Manila (the other film was Malombra).

Ruben Maria Soriquez founded the European Philippine International Film Festival EPIFF in 2017[24][25][26] with Maurizio Baldini e Lorenzo Galanti. The first two editions of EPIFF took place in Florence, Italy on March 7, 8 2018 and May 2019, while the 2020 edition has been online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.