FACFF highlights emerging filmmakers

Inquirer | November 13, 2023

LOS ANGELES – More than a decade in the making, the FilAm Creative Film Festival (FACFF) has finally become a reality, fulfilling the founders’ dream to give Filipino-Americans a platform to share their voices, experiences and stories.

The festival kicked off on Nov. 3 with an opening ceremony and screenings that showcased Filipino-American cinema at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, California. It was met with an enormous amount of support from the crowd that packed the 800-seat college auditorium.

“For our Filipino creative community in America, these recent years have been a turning point,” said FACFF Inaugural Jury President Yong Chavez on her social media. “We have found this hard-earned confidence to take space and show the world what we can do.”

The featured screenings included: “Ang Huling Adobo,” “Bubble Tea,” “Bare-Knuckle,” “Connection,” “Glimmer,” “Homeland,” “Jake, the Failure,” “Joyrider,” “Kilig,“Love, Lola,” “Malaya,” “Packing Day,” “Paco,” “Palibut-Libot,” “Poison,” “Reality Dad,” “Sayo Na,” and “Sweet Tooth.” Meanwhile, “Every Day After,” “Mahal,” “Kinatay” and “When You Left Me on That Boulevard” were the festival’s special programs.