This Filipino American Life Documentary Recommendations! THE CLEANERS and CALL HER GANDA are two films in the documentary competition for Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Under the International Documentary Feature Competition there is THE CLEANERS highlights who’s job is it to Olivia Pope/fix your online profiles. CALL HER GANDA makes it’s west coast premiere…
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This Filipino American Life Features Recommendations! The Fever and The Fret and Neomanila are two films that are in the features competition for Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The Fever and The Fret is in the Narrative Feature Competition, while Neomanila is in the International Feature Competition. Neomanila also happens to be by Mikhail…
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This Filipino American Life is thrilled to be a community sponsor for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival premier of PRISON FOOD, a docu-series directed by Aditya Thayi and hosted by The Park’s Finest owner Chef Johneric Concordia. Throughout the docu-series Chef Johneric learns how inmates prepare meals for each other under the circumstances…
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Why volunteer at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival? For perks like free movies! You also will get this awesome free shirt! Volunteer Benefits Also Include: Meeting film industry professionals and artists, Asian Pacific American community members, and fellow film enthusiasts An official festival volunteer shirt Vouchers for Festival screenings (1 voucher every shift)…
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If you grew up in a Filipino household, it’s possible that you’ve had experiences with natural medicines or remedies — from your parents use of the aloe vera plant on a burn to the use of tawas as underarm deodorant. For TFAL co-host Ryan, he would have never known the healing effects of ginger root had…
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The 34th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival kicks off with the Sundance NEXT Audience Award winner SEARCHING from director Aneesh Chaganty and starring John Cho. The film is a suspenseful and hyper-modern thriller about a desperate father searching for his missing teenage daughter told through a screen that we all are too familiar…
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Naks naman, pre! Everyday, we hear a new term or phrase or acronym that we totes have to google. With the ever evolving ways of communicating, we can expect some of our words and phrases to be shortened and even more so, turn into widely-used slang. Slang has multiple uses. It can be used for…
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What happens when you are in high school physics class and a classmate says “Do you play an instrument” and your answer is yes? Well for Merilou Salazar and Jesse Meehan, our guests on this episode of TFAL, they formed a three power chord knowing garage band called The Midol Poppers. After several iterations and…
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A recently article circulated social media after the release of the movie, Black Panther, detailing the connection between some of the costumes worn by the “Dora Milaje” — the all-female personal guard of the ruler of the fictional African country of Wakanda. Anthony Francisco, a Pinoy member of the film’s design team, apparently based the…
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Tens of thousands of Filipinos work as caregivers in the United States, and more are recruited to Western nations to feed, bathe, and serve the elderly. It is a thankless, yet vital job that many Filipinos hold. Yet, in this line of work, many caregivers are abused, with some working 24 hours around the…
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