Virgilio Almario and the NCCA’s push to find Filipino culture
By Alma Anonas-Carpio
Photos by Roy Domingo
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts...
The unplanned success of ‘Fat You’
Story by Carla Mortel-Baricaua
Photos courtesy of Thirdy Rivera III
One restless school break, Thirdy and...
Fulfilling dreams and sharing realities at Dreamanila
By Seymour B. Sanchez | Contributor
Films on social realities emerged triumphant in a dream
project. This summarizes the first...
Colour me
By S. Shamala
I wanted to be here, rubbing my face on that clean piece of
white paper. I was...
Bulacan student entry tops MMFF short film tilt
By Seymour B. Sanchez | Contributor
A short film about a janitor who raises his mute daughter
inside a restroom...
After Vicente Manansala’s Jeepneys
consider this chrome post-industrial mobile disco
consider this chrome post-industrial mobile disco
beast of burden shoulder to armpit where we jostle
beast of burden shoulder to armpit...
“Yield” documentary wins big as Maginhawa Film Festival honors best of the...
A film which follows the lives of nine children across five years, growing up in dire rural poor conditions, bagged Best Picture, Best Direction...
Three good books
Good books, time in which to read them, and a comfortable place in which to indulge one’s inner bookworm are among the three best...
The crying walls of San Lorenzo
SLEEPING butterflies perched on dancing frangipani leaves in the moonlight are a bizarre sight on my way to begin my altar server job. Last...
NJLA Asia-Pacific winners announced
The first set of winners for the maiden Asia-Pacific Nick Joaquin Literary Awards are all women. The editors and staff of BusinessMirror’s Tony &...
Too much, too soon, but he’s good at it
At 19, he was supposed to be learning the basic fundamentals in school, but fate had a different plan altogether and threw him a...
Lessons from the Mind Museum
Science is empirical. Six years since it first opened its doors to the public in 2012, the Bonifacio Art Foundation, Inc.’s Mind Museum continues...
Q&A with Ma. Isabel Garcia
Why is it called the “Mind Museum”? Who conceptualized it? How did the name come about?
We had studies. Like I said, I was proud...
Philippines is Country of Focus at Singapore Media Festival 2018
After its successful Philippine participation in Busan International Film Festival at Busan, South Korea, the Film Development Council of the Philippines leads the country...
Benilde films compete at 6th Salamindanaw Asian Film Fest
Two award-winning capstone projects from the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts will vie in the Philippine shorts competition...
Fusion
SO you’re married to an Australian? Yes, I’m a mail-order bride. You know one of those “little brown f___ing machines,” ha ha ha, from...
Give Us This Day
Larry fell heavily. His left knee twisted badly, and he thought he felt something tear. His rather slim body hurt. He was not expecting...
‘Wanlu and his puppets’ at the CCP
JOURNEY into the world of magic and puppetry with Wanlu and His Puppets’ on December 7, 2018, Friday, 8 pm, at the Tanghalang Huseng...
New art at Big Sky Mind
The artist collective ADHD (Analog Digital Hyper Dense) will be mounting an exhibit from December 12, 2018 to January 27, 2019, titled in Utero,...
Mohammad from Iran Sees Malaysia for the First Time
The leaves widen
Like eyes wondering
At these forests filled
With inks of green
(No more line of sand
Merging with the sky)
The ferns like fingers
Splay in the sun
And...
