Our friend Stephen Dypiangco recently told me about his new project called the National Film Society. The project is a collaboration between Stephen and fellow Filipino filmmaker Patrick Epino. Over the past couple of months, Patrick and Stephen have been developing a new YouTube channel, the National Film Society, which they just launched. In their first video, [...]
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Filipino Filmmakers Stephen Dypiangco & Patrick Epino on Film School or No Film School
September 17th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
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2011 Call for Submissions: The Chicago Filipino American Film Festival
August 16th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
This update is for all you filmmakers out there who want to share stories and themes of Filipino culture to the a wider audience. The Chicago Filipino American Film Festival is currently accepting submissions for 2011. The Chicago Filipino American Film Festival welcomes feature-length and short narrative and documentary films. Qualifying films will include, but [...]
“Final Destination 5″ Features Effects by Filipino-American FX Master
August 12th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
So this Friday, the latest installment of the Final Destination series arrives in the theaters. For me, Final Destination was the first horror film I took seriously, especially since it was recommended to me by an ex-girlfriend in high school. What came as a pleasant surprise for me was receiving this press release that Final Destination 5 features [...]
How To Live Forever Opening at the Siskel Film Center in Chicago
June 16th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
I just got some great news from my friend Stephen Dypiangco, Oscar-winning producer of God of Love and director of Home Unknown. How To Live Forever (www.liveforevermovie.com), a film that Stephen is producing, will be opening at the Siskel Film Center in Chicago tomorrow and playing for one week. About How To Live Forever: Director [...]
The Suns and Stars Comedy Tour
May 16th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
Ready to laugh and enjoy a night of fun and laughter? Then head on out to the launching of Sun and Stars Comedy Tour on May 26th at Laughs Unlimited in Sacramento, CA and support our Filipino comedians! Featuring some of the best and accomplished Filipino comedians, the show will be headlined by Joey Guila, [...]
IBU’s Broken Record Official Music Video
April 12th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
It’s great to actually see real talent on the web again and not some amateur singing about Fridays. Chicago’s IBU is back and the trio got together to release a music video for their track “Broken Record” off the “Inspired By U” album. Tommy Chanthasene (aka Tommy C), Mike Musni and Jonathan Shauf show what [...]
Critically Ashamed, A Reason To Stop By and Catch A Second City Production
March 9th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
Anyone want to go see a sketch comedy show? Critically Ashamed combines tales of social ineptitude with satirical commentary on modern life (not to mention the occasional ninja, diehard Sox fan, and alien invasion) and you have this clever sketch comedy show. The sketch comedy show stars Lisa Burton, Gilbert Galon, Taylor Harris, Miguel Lepe Jr., [...]
Mae Flores Debuts in Atlantis Down
February 18th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
I recently read over at The Filipino-American that February 20, 2011 is a big day for Filipino-American actress Mae Flores as it will be the premier night for her movie, Atlantis Down at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival in Hollywood. According to her interview with the Fil-Am website, “I am especially excited to see my [...]
Inspirational Filipinas: Mariel Martin Working on KPop Group 2NE1′s Choreography
February 15th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
I recently found out in a post from our friends at 8asians that Filipina-American dance choreographer Mariel Martin is the face behind K-pop group 2NE1′s latest music single. I know how popular Korean pop is with the younger generation more so than it was when I was a teenager. What’s special about Korean pop group [...]
Meet Cori Dioquino, Filipina-American Actress
February 5th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
I’ve had a lot of great interviews in the two year’s that I’ve been blogging and I’ve been able to connect with a lot of interesting Filipinos who are working hard to better represent the community. For 2011, I made a promise that I would feature more Filipinas, who I felt would be great role [...]
Camille Cresencia-Mills on MTV’s Skins
January 31st, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
I recently found out about the US remake of Skins after a night at the gym, where it was shown on all the tv screens. When I learned more about the show, I wasn’t surprised to read that the show received backlash from adults and concerned parents. It’s aired on a network that runs Jersey Shore, [...]
Matthew Libatique Nominated for his Achievement in Cinematography for Black Swan
January 25th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
This year’s Oscar nominations are looking great, especially with news of another Filipino-American up for a nomination. It was announced that Matthew Libatique got a nomination for his work on the critically acclaimed film Black Swan. I’ll definitely be tuning in for the Oscars this year. For those who aren’t familiar with Matthew Libatique, he is an American cinematographer [...]
Hailee Steinfield Nominated for Best Actress
January 25th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
The nominations for the 2011 Oscars was announced today and apparently Philippines’ entry for ‘Noy’ did not make it into the best foreign language category, but the good news is that rising Fil-Am Hollywood star Hailee Steinfield got nominated for best actress. I recently found out that Steinfield had some Filipino blood from her mother’s side [...]
Badass Trailer for Ron Santiano’s Young EVE: Demon Hunter
January 20th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
I saw a preview of Ron Santiano’s Young EVE: Demon Hunter earlier this week and I just had to post it here. This trailer got my attention because I’m a sucker for supernatural story plots and it features an Asian girl killing demons! Now that’s badass. Young EVE looks like she can give Knives Chau [...]
BACOLLYWOOD 3: Visayan Film Festival
January 18th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
I recently heard from my friend Lorely Trinidad about an upcoming Visayan Film Festival called Bacollywood 3. Lorely is taking care of PR/Marketing for this exciting film festival in the Philippines. She’s also US Liaison, scouting for films made by Fil-Am directors with Visayan DNA. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Filipino films, [...]