By Boy Villasanta Led by Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chair Don Artes, the Selection Committee of the agency has chosen the last five official entries to the 2024 Metro Manila Film Festival held at the Podium Hall of The Podium Tuesday afternoon in Ortigas, Pasig City. Artes said that there were seventy submissions to the selection of the remaining …
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By Boy Villasanta The Philippine Stagers Foundation (PSF) or Philstagers was caught flat-footed when members of the Department of Education (DepEd) came to the Skydome at the SM North EDSA Sunday afternoon where “Juan Luna Isang Sarsuela” was showing and tried to prohibit its playing. “DepEd came to stop our production,” exclaimed Vince Tanada, the producer, director, actor and writer …
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It’s final. We will never see Piolo Pascual in the Philstagers’ stage production of “Himala, The Musical.” It’s not Piolo’s fault nor Philstagers’ but circumstances brought the musical to a nil as far as the Vince Tañada’s multimedia company is concerned. According to a very reliable source, another production is doing the play. Even award-winning musician Pipo Cifra was surprised …
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By Audie See We were among those who benefitted from the ayuda given by the Philippine government in a project dubbed as Serbisyo Caravan at the PhilSports Arena for three days-in-row from Saturday to Monday on October 12 to 14. I belong to a group of largely showbiz reporters whose inclusion in the project was facilitated by the Movie Workers …
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It’s the beauty queen Pinoy-Kiwis that we’ve been hearing about, such as Victoria Vincent Velasquez who will represent New Zealand in the Miss Universe 2024 pageant. She has been competing in beauty pageants here in the Philippines for years now. Victoria is actually the 2024 Miss Philippines-Universe Charity. “Kiwi” is how the people of New Zealand are internationally called. Kiwis …
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I was a movie fan when I enrolled at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Santo Tomas in the early 1970s. It was the height of the Nora-Tirso, Vilma-Edgar popularity and I was an avid follower of these teenyboppers at the time. It was a hot rivalry between the two love teams, and individually, of Nora …
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By Boy Villasanta Filipino film artists are indeed world-class. This was proven again by director Kyla Romero who was recognized at the closing of the 2024 Spanish Film Festival at the Red Carpet Cinema in Shangri-La Plaza in Mandaluyong City recently. Kyla presented her short film “Transients” during the duration of the 23rd Spanish film fest that ended last October …
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By Boy Villasanta From October 15 to 26, 2024, the Filipinos are treated with an avalanche of performance arts in every nook and cranny of Philippine society. “In Situ, Performance and Exhibition” the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) with the collaboration of Belarmino & Partners provide the nation with practical and realistic art forms that can liberate the hearts …
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By Boy Villasanta Among the universities and colleges in the Philippines, the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Faculty of Arts and Letters has remained one of the most prolific institutions to have produced and graduated outstanding multimedia practitioners in the country since its inception in 1965. To name only a few, there were National Artists for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera and …
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What makes it more colorful and glitzier is the special participation of show people with hardcore politicians and other wannabes. The 2025 midterm elections are showstoppers set on May 12 whose filing of the Certificates of Candidacy (CoC) has ended on Tuesday, October 8, 2024. Look ma! Here is the list of celebrities—movie, film, theater, music and multimedia who are …
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