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                    [Title] => Leni Robredo campaign docu, Dolly de Leon films to premiere at Sundance 2024
                    [Summary] => Two movies starring Dolly de Leon and a documentary about the 2022 presidential campaign of former vice president Leni Robredo are going to premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in January.
                    [DatePublished] => 2023-12-08 16:20:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Kristofer Purnell
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                    [Title] => Dolly de Leon, Billy Crawford, Joaquin Domagoso among 15th Ani ng Dangal awardees
                    [Summary] => Several actors and films were recognized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts as recipients at the 15th Ani ng Dangal Awards.
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                    [Title] => Imelda on GMA
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Few contemporary political figures of this century have been as controversial and outspoken — or as misunderstood — as Imelda Marcos, former First Lady and widow of the late Ferdinand Marcos, who was the President of the Philippines for 18 years.

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Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, the critically-acclaimed Ramona Diaz documentary on the legendary band Journey and the phenomenal rise from obscurity of its Filipino front man Arnel Pineda, is finally on its theatrical release across the United States starting last Friday, March 8, in New York and California and 13 other key markets/cities.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134227 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259122 [Title] => On the wings of Icarus [Summary] => Imelda Romualdez Marcos is a Philippine cultural icon. No news there. Imelda has thousands of shoes. No news there, either. Imelda is obsessed about beauty. We know.

So what new things do we expect to learn from Imelda, the controversial, award-winning documentary by Ramona Diaz?

For one thing, sitting through the movie might convince us that a lot of our deep-seated misgivings and hatred toward the former First Lady can still be tempered by a measure of understanding, if not forgiveness. [DatePublished] => 2004-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1435777 [AuthorName] => Kap Maceda Aguila [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 258617 [Title] => A timely reminder from history [Summary] => You either hate her or are charmed by her. But you can’t deny the fact that there was no other former Malacañang resident as colorful as Imelda Romualdez Marcos.

Among the Philippine First Ladies, she is the most beautiful and the most statuesque.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135739 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1186451 [AuthorName] => Butch Francisco [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 258117 [Title] => A RAMONA DIAZ & IMELDA MOVIE larger than life [Summary] => It’s a happy ending after all. Sort of. The public will finally get to see the much talked about Imelda, the documentary that is making news the world over, that has aroused curious interest among a public currently caught in the web of Spiderman and a hostage crisis in Iraq. Like it or not, Imelda Romual-dez Marcos is the best thing to happen to Filipino-American filmmaker Ramona Diaz, her film and its distributor Unitel Productions. [DatePublished] => 2004-07-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1267617 [AuthorName] => Dina Sta. Maria [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 257474 [Title] => Imelda loses legal battle to block screening of film [Summary] => The controversial film Imelda will finally be shown on Cinemanila after a Makati City Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge junked yesterday the petition of former First Lady Imelda Marcos for a permanent ban on the showing of her film biography and her earlier withdrawal of her case albeit with one condition.

"We’re going to show it before the (film) festival closes on July 20," film festival executive director, Amable "Tikoy" Aguiluz VI, said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1620721 [AuthorName] => Nikko Dizon [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 257353 [Title] => Imelda backs down on showing of ‘documentary’ [Summary] => Former First Lady Imelda Marcos offered yesterday to stop seeking to ban a film she said made of joke of her life, but only if the distributors drop the word "documentary" from the title.

The charismatic widow of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos said she would give up the case in recognition of the Filipino people’s right of freedom.
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