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Pacquiao’s relationships with Jinkee, Mommy Dionesia crucial to his struggle (Part 2)
By Cristina DC Pastor The FilAm (TF): Is “Manny” your first film? Ryan Moore (RM): “Manny” is my first feature film. I started making short films when I was a kid. I got a hold of my dad’s camera when I was a young boy and we created stop motion animation videos using my Voltron […]
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Director Ryan Moore: Navigating Pacquiao’s layers of entourage felt like a ‘covert operation’ (Part 1)
By Cristina DC Pastor Manny Pacquiao’s life is now in a documentary feature film, but as Filipino American director Ryan Moore would find out after five years of filming: the boxing legend’s erratic schedule and multiple layers of entourage presented the biggest hurdle. “Tracking down Manny and staying on top of his schedule is like […]
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In ‘The Interview,’ Korean leader is portrayed as a likeable character!
By Andre C. Ochoa The film “The Interview” streamed online this past Christmas with hopes that its controversial plot would do well in the theaters. The aim and marketing for the film may have met high standards, but the film falls short. It is a comedy about two U.S. journalists (played by Seth Rogan and […]
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In our relentless pursuit to be ‘beautiful,’ have we gone too far?
By Tiara Camille Teruel Walking past the milk and dairy aisle, and just next to the eggs, I stopped and felt a sly smile slowly paint across my face. In my pajamas, my unruly hair and my fogged-up glasses, I felt free. For once, and maybe it’s just because it’s the holidays and possibly the […]
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A collection of memorable personal essays for 2014
By Cristina DC Pastor As a reader and editor, I’ve always liked the personal essay. It is storytelling at its most honest. It is the authors’ unstructured, rambling thoughts, and because it is your life, the decision to make public a conflicted or deeply personal episode is always a brave one. The FilAm has published […]
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Has ‘crab mentality’ crept into the ranks of second generation FilAms? (Part 3)
By Kristina Rodulfo During a meeting at NYU, I met with Ronald Rapatalo, the 1995-1996 president of the NYU’s International Filipino Association, where I was president. IFA started in 1985 originally as an intramural campus basketball team and evolved into a full-fledged organization with educational, cultural and social programming. Rapatalo told me of his involvement […]
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Leadership burnout: Why youth lose interest in community organizing after graduation (Part 2)
By Kristina Rodulfo That last point on collaboration hangs in limbo most, according to former FIND leaders. One time National Director Steven Raga recalled proposing to expand FIND to Southern California in 2007. His idea was rejected because of restrictions supposedly related to FIND’s 501c3 nonprofit status. No such status existed; FIND only recently achieved […]
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PROJECT: Campus organizations no longer breeding ground for future leaders: The story of FIND, Inc. (Part 1)
By Kristina Rodulfo The sounds of cheers, chants and chaos you hear at any opening ceremony of a FIND Inc. conference draw striking resemblance to a sports game. The bi-annual gatherings for Filipino American college students on the East Coast feel like pep rallies, with each of FIND’s seven districts excitedly reciting prepared, coordinated anthems. […]
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Cuba and the Philippines are sister countries by heritage
By Roz Zacarias Li The restoration of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba will give Filipino Americans the opportunity to get to know Cuba first-hand, this country which I consider to be a sister country of the Philippines. Cuba and the Philippines have shared heritage – both former colonies of Spain for centuries […]