This Filipino American Life appreciates a good deal. And what better deal is there like a free program! Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival has two shorts program that are free to the public. You simply have to reserve your tickets! Itsy Bitsy Shorts makes its return to the festival. This shorts program takes place…
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Happy Birthday TFAL! We made it to one year! Join us & help us celebrate a year of air horns, half baked ideas, and stories that have made us and you giggle. There will be bbq. There will be beers. There will be (possibly) karaoke. Saturday, May 13th 8pm-Midnight Many thanks to the homies at…
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FilAm Creative, a Filipino American network of artists in Film and TV, highlight storytelling by Filipino Americans at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival this year. This program features two short films with a TFAL connection! Producer Mike grew up with filmmaker Rommel Andaya. Rommel has two films featured in the FilAm Creations program “What…
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Form follows Function continues it’s collaboration with Visual Communications with Bronzeville Little Tokyo. This project highlights history that has been overlooked; the time Japanese and Japanese Americans were put in internment camps and African Americans moved into Little Tokyo. This program consists of projection mapping, a new animated VR piece, and live music. Events are…
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As Filipino Americans, we all know or know of someone in our lives who is undocumented. That one uncle who left his family in the Philippines. That one auntie who’s always “fixing her papers.” That one friend who doesn’t leave the house very often. According to various statistical computations, Filipinos who are undocumented in the…
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As a former features programmer I always thought the shorts programmers did so much more work. We would screen 250-300 films. Shorts programmers would screen 550-600 films! And then they would create thematic programs based on what they’d seen. These four short programs run the gamut of 90s nostalgia, highlight the process of memory, use…
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On this mini episode we talk TV! What were your favorite TV shows growing up? As 80s babies we rehash our love of Saturday morning cartoons, Saved By The Bell, and A-Team. Do you remember Ernie Reyes Jr on Sidekicks? Or are you a fan of TJ Perkins on WWE? What would a Filipino American…
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Are you a nurse? Do you know someone or are you related to someone in the nursing field? (Hahaha…of course you do!). Ever wonder why there are so many Filipino nurses in the United States? The statistics are astonishing. According to Aaron Terrazas and Jeanne Batalova from the Migrant Policy Institute, nearly one of every…
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Is there a use for Filipino American holiday? Is there a way to accommodate bigger and bigger family parties? Is there a better way to transport stuff to loved ones in the Philippines? Why, yes, of course!!! The TFAL crew answers all these questions and more in their second installment of Hilaw Pa where we…
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On this episode of This Filipino American Life, the TFAL crew talks about their experiences with blogging. Blogspot, Xanga, Livejournal and countless other internet sites were the home to our early 00s thoughts and terrible spoken word poetry. In this new era of blogging, Facebook has become the home of writing down these thoughts. One…
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