NEW YORK -- ABC announced a deal Tuesday, May 9, to revive “American Idol,” only a year after the powerhouse music competition aired its 15th and last season on Fox.
Read more: ABC announces revival of ‘American Idol’ next season
Phil Giordano’s short film, “Supot,” won the grand jury prize at the 2016 New York Screenplay Contest, “a global [tilt] designed to launch careers and provide recognition and network opportunities to the world’s best new voices in writing for film and television.”
NEW YORK, NY -- Characterized by a prolific and dizzying array of genres and styles, the ongoing Third Golden Age of Philippine cinema is celebrated in MoMA’s extensive, unprecedented survey, A New Golden Age, on view June 1 through 25 in the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. The Third Golden Age of Philippine cinema spans from around 2000 to the present, following the first golden age, in the 1950s, and the second, from the 1970s to the early 1980s.
They told her she couldn’t make it in “Vietnam Idol,” a popular singing tilt. But 28-year-old Janice Buco was destined to prove them all wrong.
The lead stars of Eduardo Roy Jr.’s “Pamilya Ordinaryo” bagged the top acting prizes in a New York festival. Hasmine Killip won best actress and Ronwaldo Martin, best actor, at the 12th Harlem International Film Festival, held on Sunday, May 7, in the United States. This is Killip’s fifth international acting honor for the Cinemalaya winner, and Martin’s first award ever.
She may have amassed the lion’s share of special awards and snagged a convincing victory, but newly proclaimed 2016 Miss World Philippines Catriona Gray said the moment still caught her by surprise.
The Philippines’ bet John Raspado won the title of Mr. Gay World 2017 held in Spain on Thursday morning (May 11), the first victory for the country in the pageant’s history.
The Department of Tourism (DOT) yesterday said talk about the cancellation of the 2016 Miss Universe pageant in the Philippines was just rumor.
WASHINGTON, DC – With the recent trend of substantive and meaningful roles on television that explore nuanced perspectives of Asians in America, NBC’s announcement of a new show in production called “Mail Order Family” is a leap backward in the depiction of Asians and Asian Americans on television. As one of the few television shows either on air or in production to feature Asian Americans, it is an outrage that NBC has chosen to address the plight of mail-order brides and human trafficking as a family comedy.
Read more: Asian Americans Advancing Justice Affiliates Outraged By New NBC Show
Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s “Ma’ Rosa” has been chosen as the country’s entry in the best foreign language film category of the 89th Academy Awards, which will be held in Los Angeles on Feb. 26, 2017.
Read more: ‘Ma’ Rosa’ is PH entry in Oscar best foreign language category