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Hiddenbrooke, CA • March 2026. The Memory Heist: How DreamWorks' 'Forgotten Island' Turns Filipino Mythology Into a Diaspora Reckoning. forgotten island dreamworks, filipino mythology animation, H.E.R. liza soberano, lea salonga manananggal, nakali island, filipino american diaspora, pinoy pride, fil-am identity, filipino folklore, dreamworks animation 2026, joel crawford januel mercado, filipino culture film. FILM & IDENTITY • MARCH 2026 The Memory Heist: How DreamWorks' 'Forgotten Island' Turns Filipino Mythology Into a Diaspora Reckoning The first major animated film rooted in Philippine folklore asks the question every immigrant carries: What do you lose when you leave? A PinoyBuilt analysis of the most important Filipino cultural moment in animation history. DreamWorks Animation's Forgotten Island features a voice cast led by H.E.R., Liza Soberano, and Lea Salonga in a story root...

Fil-Am comedian Jo Koy on hosting Golden Globes for first time and his family's reaction. Popular stand-up comedian, actor and author Jo Koy talks to "Entertainment Tonight" co-host Nischelle Turner about hosting this year's Golden Globe Awards. So excited to announce that I will be hosting the 2024 @goldenglobes Make sure to tune-in on Sunday, January 7 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT - airing live on @CBS and streaming on @paramountplus #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/7cxEVPGPX2 — Jo Koy (@Jokoy) December 23, 2023 The nominees were announced on December 11, 2023. Barbie and Succession both tied for the most nominations with nine each, followed by Oppenheimer with eight. Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT.com

The basketball champ is fighting with his most terrible enemy, with himself. MVP Animation is a short movie about overcoming our weaknesses and fighting against the barriers we usually face ourselves. We decide to use 28 number because it's just an inspiration. For us, everyone can be a black mamba. It's not just a name or number, it's how you choose to live, and how you became your best version of yourself. DIRECTOR - Artur Marcol ANIMATION - Artur Marcol  PRODUCER - Piotr Furmankiewicz, Mateusz Michalak  FUMI STUDIO

THE FLIP SIDE is a comedy about family, sibling rivalry and identity. Written and directed by Rod Pulido, THE FLIP SIDE was the first film by a Filipino American director to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Follow on Twitter @RodAPulido Once upon a time I wrote, produced, and directed THE FLIP SIDE, a comedy about a #FilipinoAmerican family. It became the first Fil Am feature film at the Sundance Film Festival. #FilipinoRepresentation #AsianRepresentation #SundanceFilmFestival https://t.co/IuFWAWfI6S — RAP (@RodAPulido) September 4, 2018 [post_ads]

Every family has its crazy. C razy Rich Asians is a 2018 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jon M. Chu from a screenplay by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Kevin Kwan. The film stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Awkwafina, Nico Santos, Lisa Lu, Ken Jeong, and Michelle Yeoh, and follows a young Asian-American woman who travels to meet her boyfriend's family and is surprised when she discovers they are among the richest in Singapore. The novel begins with a quote from the 14th century Moroccan scholar Ibn Battuta : nowhere in the world are there to be found people richer than the Chinese.

Ma' Rosa, The Woman Who Left, and Imago to be screened at TIFF Toronto, Canada: Three Filipino films will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival to be held September 8-18, 2016 . Ma' Rosa Filipino firebrand Brillante Mendoza (Slingshot, Kinatay) incisively explores the street-level corruption of the Duterte-era Philippines with this tragicomic tale about a low-level drug dealer (Jaclyn Jose, Best Actress winner at Cannes) on a desperate search for cash to pay a bribe to the local cops. The Woman Who Left (Ang Babaeng Humayo) Director Lav Diaz's drama examines economic disparity in modern Filipino society through the eyes of a woman released from prison 30 years after being framed and wrongly convicted. Imago A 54-year-old single mother in Manila heads out for another night at a job that, though rife with risk and desperation, is business as usual for her. Tonight, however, before her task is through, she‘ll have to contend with more th...