- He fathered the modern KKK. He changed his name to Kidlat. With his wife's name starting with K (Katrin), he named all his children starting with K -- Kidlat. Kawayn and Kabuyan. In the Philippines, KKK symbolizes patriotism (from Kataastaasang, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan or KKK which Andres Bonifacio and friends formed to revolt against the Spanish regime in the Philippines).
- A shaman.
- Named his eldest son, Kidlat, after his screen name.
- Owns gallery La Azotea building in the heart of Session Road in Baguio. He always stays in his gallery if he has no prior engagement.
- Convenor of LIBHRTY (Limit Idiot Box Hours Thank You), a national awareness movement to guard against TV overdoes.
- An artist sector representative to the John Hay Advisory Council, which helped make an orderly turnover of Camp John Hay in Baguio City, Philippines to private contractors for its reestablishment as a tourism center.
- A contributor to the Sunday Weekend Magazine, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and the defunct Weekend Chronicle.
- A guest lecturer at numerous film forums, universities, art happenings in Japan, US, Germany (1978 to the present).
- A president of a non-government organization dedicated to documenting indigenous wisdom.
- Artist-in-residence, East West Center in Hawaii (1984).
- A professor in independent film production in San Francsico State University (1990).
- Chair or the International Student's Association, University of Pensylvannia (1966).
- Founder of AISEC Philippines (1968) which convened a board of advisers chaired by Sixto Roxas.
- An economist, he pursued an artist's life.
- At age 11 in 1954, he won an essay contest for "The Evils of Communism".
- A member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi.
- Mother is Virginia de Guia, a former post-war mayor of Baguio City and a crusader today for issues that are not always popular.
- Eric studied grade school at the Maryknoll Convent School between 1947 and 1954, graduated later from the St. Louis University Boy's High School (1954-1958).
- He finished speech drama at the University of the Philippines in Diliman (1958-1963). He was the president of the University of the Philippines Student Council from 1962 to 1963, then known as the University Student Union.
- He studied at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and worked as a researcher for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris from 1968 to 1972.
- Tahimik's 4-story home in Benguet, Philippines burned down in February of 2004. The family was able to escape safely, but the director's film stock and collection of art and artifacts were destroyed.
- His name, Kidlat Tahimik, means "quiet lightning" in English.
- A movie director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated through their critiques of neocolonialism with the Third Cinema movement.
- He, his wife Katrin de Guia, and three children are all into arts -- wife is a writer; son Kidlat de Guia is a television and film director; son Kawayan de Guia is a painter, and youngest Kabunyan de Guia is also into painting.
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