Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc were film critics who were murdered on 1 September 2009 in Quezon City, Philippines.
[4] Tioseco credited the Lav Diaz film Batang West Side as having awakened his interest in Philippine cinema.
[1][6] He helped organize established filmmakers in a failed attempt to seek reforms to the Metro Manila Film Festival.
[5] On the night of 1 September 2009, Tioseco was killed at his Quezon City home in an apparent burglary staged by three armed men who fled the scene.
Police were investigating the participation in the crime of a stay-in housemaid recently hired by Tioseco, who had fled together with the suspects.