British filmmaker Sean Ellis’ “Metro Manila” wins the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at the Sundance film fest which ends in Utah Saturday (Sunday Manila time), according to Filipino actor John Arcilla who attended the event.
Jericho Rosales stirs and scares in his exceptional portrayal of a single father who embarks on a search to find his missing son (Bugoy Cariño) in Ian Loreños’ harrowing human-trafficking drama, “Alagwa,” a guest entry in this year’s Cinema One Originals Film Festival.
“It was completely fair. Phil deserved to win.” With those words, “American Idol” runner-up Jessica Sanchez brushed aside a protest by a Filipino-American community group. Migrant Heritage Commission, which is based here in D.C., is asking Fox TV to disclose “in the interest of transparency” how the voting was counted and how much of the 132 million votes went to the young singer.
In a new fan craze called “Fanchez”, Jessica Sanchez supporters worldwide have described her journey through Season 11 of American Idol as iconic. Filipino Americans have described the pride and solidarity Filipinos have thrown behind her as “parang si Manny Pacquiao.”
Arnel Pineda’s story is one for the history books. Having lived a mostly hand-to-mouth existence after his mother died when he was only 13 years old, Arnel’s life made a dramatic turn about five years ago when he was plucked from obscurity to become the lead singer of the quintessential American rock band Journey. Thanks [...]
Filipinos around the globe are up in arms: Jessica Sanchez was nearly ousted from “American Idol.”
The stage glittered with sequins, neon garb, and bell-bottomed disco pants in the 1970s-themed Myx Music Awards held recently at the Music Museum. In their funky ensembles, the night’s performers brought to the audience the enduring music of the decade considered by many as one of the best, if not the best era of Filipino music.
Another Filipina is gunning for the “American Idol” title. Jessica Sanchez’s powerful vocals had Filipino Americans and the judges gushing and raving about the resurrection of Whitney Houston.
The new season of reality TV series Top Chef brought the famous cooking show to Texas for the first time. And since, as they say, ‘Everything is bigger in Texas’, the show brought in the largest number of competing chefs. The show premiered last November and gathered 29 chefs from around the country to search for the ninth Top Chef winner.
Ruben Sanico, accountant, shares: “Fil-Am actors who aren’t fluent in Filipino should find time to learn our national language, so they won’t be limited to doing the same balikbayan roles again and again. The same problem exists with actors who grew up in Mindanao and the Visayas.
Allow me a few moments to catch my breath… Tonight’s concert at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall was nothing short of thrilling. More than 60 Filipino performers participated in the show that benefited the Philippine Development Foundation and paid tribute to one of musical theater’s most influential and prolific creative forces, namely Stephen Sondheim. Rehearsals [...]
The cast of the award-winning indie film “Niño” had to follow director Loy Arcenas’ strict orders: Rehearse 10 to 20 times before the cameras started rolling. Lead actors Fides Cuyugan-Asencio, Raquel Villavicencio and Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino made this revelation during an open forum after the film’s screening at the Inquirer offices in Makati on Tuesday. They [...]
