The New York Filipino Film Festival is a week-long event that features an array of
Filipino-oriented and Filipino-made movies in New York City's
ImaginAsian
ImaginAsian Entertainment, Inc was a multimedia company founded by Michael Hong and Augustine Hong and a group of investors that recognized the emerging importance of "all-things Asian." Based in New York City, its main attraction was a televis ...
Theatre. This event correlates with the celebration of
Philippine Independence in June.
It shows newly released Filipino films and old classics from the Philippines, as well as
documentaries
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in term ...
, shorts, and original works by young
Filipino American
Filipino Americans ( fil, Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipinos and other Asian ethnicities in North America were first documented in the 16th century as slaves and prisoners on ships sailing to and from New ...
filmmakers. The festival was conceived to coincide with the
Philippine Independence Day Parade
The Philippine Independence Day Parade, in New York City, the world's largest outside the Philippines, takes place annually in the United States along Madison Avenue in the Manhattan borough. The parade is held on the first Sunday in June.
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celebration in June.
The film festival is also celebrated in October to correspond to the
Filipino American History Month. This event is a combined effort of the
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Found ...
, the
Cultural Center of the Philippines
The Cultural Center of the Philippines ( fil, Sentrong Pangkultura ng Pilipinas, or CCP) is a government-owned and controlled corporation established to preserve, develop and promote arts and culture in the Philippines.Presidential Decree No. ...
, and the
Consulate General of the Philippines in New York.
See also
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Filipino American
Filipino Americans ( fil, Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipinos and other Asian ethnicities in North America were first documented in the 16th century as slaves and prisoners on ships sailing to and from New ...
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Philippine Independence Day Parade
The Philippine Independence Day Parade, in New York City, the world's largest outside the Philippines, takes place annually in the United States along Madison Avenue in the Manhattan borough. The parade is held on the first Sunday in June.
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Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area
External links
New York Filipino Film and Arts Festival 2006
Asian-American culture in New York City
Filipino-American culture in New York City
Film festivals in New York City
Asian-American film festivals
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