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Film may be dead, but film culture is alive and well
By Joel David A little over a decade ago, Philippine cinema succumbed to the inevitable: the outpacing of celluloid production by digital technology, with filmographic and critical evaluators resisting the shift, insisting on recognizing “real” films as opposed to (paraphrasing a Hollywood filmmaker) “TV on the big screen.” As it turned out, the change would […]
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American comic book artist creates FilAm superheroine ‘Rocketgirl’
By Wendell Gaa A comic book series featuring a Filipina American character is something we surely don’t hear of every day, but that is precisely what readers will encounter upon opening the pages to a comic book series called “Rocketgirl.” This series is the birthchild of Manila-based American artist Fred Corder, a proud native of […]
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Sexting just for fun not to hurt victims: new study
Sexting, which is becoming a popular recreation among young adults, ironically led to the humiliating downfall of a 52-year-old New York politician, Anthony Weiner. Weiner was digitally transmitting intimate photos of himself to teen girls. The father of one of the girls spoke to the press. Other women came forward with their own selfie tales […]
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Filmmaker Vincent Veloso brings the ‘aswang’ to Amazon Prime
By Cristina DC Pastor It’s hard to pinpoint exactly where Vincent Veloso is now in his career path because he seemed to have accomplished a lot of things. This artist with labyrinthine talents in music, music education, martial arts, ballroom dancing, filmmaking, and writing said he is currently focused on producing his video series for […]
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How spoiled Malibu became a Sanctuary City
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. The beach city of Malibu — where Tom Hanks, Cher and other Hollywood luminaries have homes — recently became a Sanctuary City. Malibu City Hall voted on March 14 to adopt the Sanctuary City status as a gesture of solidarity with undocumented immigrants, many of them Hispanics working in construction […]
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Sharon Cuneta to headline July 8 concert in Queens
“Sometimes, the girl is away, and just doesn’t want to go back home anymore.” This tweet from singer, actress, and television personality Sharon Cuneta in May blew up the Philippine twitterverse. Is she hinting at marital troubles? Is she facing some mid-life, personal anxieties? On July 8, FilAms will get to watch Sharon – now […]
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A deportation reality in ‘Transit’: Filipinos would rather fight it than go home
By Cristina DC Pastor I watched “Transit” a day after I listened to Jose Antonio Vargas speak before a Know-your-rights forum on immigration. I didn’t plan it that way; that’s just how my schedule turned out. But the sequence of my schedule provided a striking perspective to the 2013 film. In “Transit,” Hannah Espia’s debut […]
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Mikhail Red’s ‘Birdshot’ in centerpiece gala and in competition at NYC Asian filmfest
Mikhail Red’s slow-burning thriller “Birdshot” will be the Centerpiece Gala of the 16th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), which will take place from June 30 to July 13 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and July 14 to 16 at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea. It will be the North American premiere of […]
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MoMA features Philippine cinema from June 1 to 25
MoMA presents a survey of Philippine film from around 2000 to the present, a period known as the Third Golden Age of Philippine cinema (following the first golden age, in the 1950s, and the second, from the 1970s to the early 1980s). The Philippines’ current wave of sustained creativity is unusual in its diversity of […]