Out of the hundreds who submitted entries from all around the globe, 15 films had the privilege to be screened in the recent Manhattan International Film Festival from February 22 to 24, 2013. The final five were chosen and it's a blessing that two of them are Filipinos! Manila Kid sits with one of...

Jill Adona is one of the few people who is living Steve Job's famous words "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." After graduating from college with a degree i...

Lance Katigbak, an undergraduate student from the University of the Philippines, proved to the world that dignity still thrives even in the most remote places through his short film, Fine Dining, which was awarded the People's Choice in the recent Manhattan International Film Festival in New York....

Theater disarms you, making you vulnerable for genuine feelings to surface. So isn't it weird that we consider theater as an escape? What does it say about the "reality" in which we live in? During the 1980s, a group of renaissance men (and woman) dreamed of using theater to spread sociopolitic...

Supporters of the RH Bill, including myself, have a tendency to think that the bill is moving so slowly in Congress due to issues of morality, due to religious bodies that people are afraid of opposing. But concentrating on this takes focus away from a much more silent but perhaps even more damaging...