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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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, [...]
Filipina Teachers in U.S. Inner Cities
September 16th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
I’ve met a number of Filipino teachers in the D.C. area due to helping out with my family’s immigration law practice. I saw this update on a documentary featuring Filipinas who struggle with being educators in the U.S., especially in one of Maryland’s tough neighborhoods. This also gives people more insight into the struggles that [...]
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 [...]
Left By The Ship: Documentary about Filipino Amerasians
June 16th, 2011 by Fil-Am Ako
The documentary about Amerasians in the Philippines Winner of the Jason Mak award for Best Social justice film at the Disorient Asian American Film festival Robert, Jr, Charlene and Margarita are Amerasians: the sons and daughters of Filipina women (often impoverished prostitutes) and American Sailors stationed at the Subic Bay US Naval Base, once the largest [...]
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, [...]