Award-winning documentary Give Up Tomorrow finally comes to the Bay Area via the SF International Asian American Film Fest. A film about Filipino-Spanish prisoner Paco Larrañaga, Give Up Tomorrow reveals the extraordinary judicial violations that resulted in Paco’s death sentence. A story that is intensely personal yet has far-reaching global reverberations, Paco’s case was championed by the United Nations and [...]
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Controversial Philippine documentary screens in SF International Asian American Film Festival 2012
March 8th, 2012 by Fil-Am Ako
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Prison Dancer: The Interactive Web Musical
February 21st, 2012 by Fil-Am Ako
Here’s a preview of the upcoming web-series Prison Dancer brought to you by Romeo Candido & Carmen De Jesus set to be released this March. Prison Dancer is an original interactive musical web series inspired by the viral Youtube phenomenon, the “Dancing Inmates of Cebu.” Featuring a cast of Youtube stars and some of the most [...]
Catch Episodes of The DAMNED
February 20th, 2012 by Fil-Am Ako
Anyone like scary movies or shows dealing with the supernatural? I know I do, especially when it features a Fil-Am Ako interviewee Cori Dioquino. The web-series is called The Damned with a backstory dealing with the battle in Heaven between God and Lucifer. So for those who know the story, you can tell what the [...]
Meet Patrick Epino – Writer, Director, and Co-Founder of the National Film Society
February 20th, 2012 by Fil-Am Ako
A while back, I interviewed Patrick Epino who is writer, director, and co-founder of the National Film Society along with Stephen Dypiangco. With this interview, I decided to go with a new format through a Skype video interview. In this interview, Patrick shares his journey in becoming a filmmaker and his views of being Filipino-American. An [...]
Filipino Filmmakers Stephen Dypiangco & Patrick Epino on Film School or No Film School
September 17th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
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, [...]
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 [...]