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Carnal fireworks in ‘Erotica Manila’
By Joel David Pinas fanboy film culture must have worn itself out, or else we’d be hearing lamentations about how our filmmakers have started regressing. After making increasingly longer modernist works, we now find several contemporary talents focused on short-length material, sometimes even geared for TV or streaming. But thank goodness for the dissipation of […]
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Maria Ressa to teach at Columbia in 2024
Maria Ressa, the Nobel laureate and Filipino-American journalist known for her pioneering efforts to protect media freedom in the Philippines, will join the Columbia SIPA faculty in July 2024 as a professor of professional practice. In the interim she will serve as a distinguished fellow this fall at the School’s forthcoming Institute of Global Politics […]
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Rizal descendant Anton Azurin: A sense of pride and responsibility (Part 2)
By Cristina DC Pastor The FilAm (TF): How exactly are you related to Jose Rizal? Anton Azurin (AA): I am a sixth generation Rizal, although I am not directly related to Jose Rizal, as he died without any children. Instead, I am descended from his lone brother Paciano, who served as a general in the […]
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The special brotherly bond between Jose Rizal and Paciano (Part 1)
By Cristina DC Pastor To interview Jose Rizal’s descendants, I went through Paciano Rizal’s branch of the family because the unmarried Jose had no children of his own. Paciano and Jose are the two boys of 11 children of Francisco and Teodora of Calamba and Biñan, Laguna. I met Paciano’s great great grandson Paolo Antonio […]
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Nanding Mendez: The improbable journey (From Caloocan egg farm and Makati ad agency to New York holdings)
By Len Manansala Not many native-born Americans who dared to dream big have actually made it in New York, the United States’ financial, media and cultural capital. If the odds for success in the Big Apple are low for immigrants, the chances for immigrants-of-color to succeed in the fiercely competitive city are close to zero. […]
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Shannon C.F. Rogers debuts fiction about FilAm teen with a burning anger toward her mother
Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. Clothes, church, boys, no matter the topic, Marisol always felt like there was an unbridgeable gap between them that they were perpetually shouting across, one […]
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Chef Nokee Bucayu proud of her southern-style Silog
Imagine a popular Filipino egg dish given a unique Kentucky spin. The result is Toc Bilog, a kind of breakfast sandwich created by Chef Nokee Bucayu — her full name is Emanor Krizelli Ancayan Bucayu — a Filipina who moved to the Bluegrass State when she was 10. Bucayu is always looking for ways to […]
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On Global Filipinos: A historic time for Filipino Canadians, the founding of FCNC
By Loida Nicolas Lewis Last May, in Vancouver Canada, I was hosted by Filipino Canadians Treenee Lopez, and Lenore and Jose Lim, for my book tour of “Why Should Guys Have All The Fun?” Treenee asked me to attend an organization of Filipinos in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada to be held on June 1st. She is a […]
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Segment on Filipino films part of AAIFF46 program
Asian CineVision will present its 46th annual Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF46) from July 26 – August 6. AAIFF, known as the “First Home of Asian American Cinema,” will feature a segment that tells Filipino storieswhich “reflect AAIFF and Asian CineVision’s hopes of supporting the creative endeavors of community activists and storytellers.” This year’s […]