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NEW YORK
ARKIPELAGO is all set for Sa Pinilakang Tabing `97 (On the Silver Screen `97): The Fourth Annual Filipino and Filipino American Film and Video Festival on November 21 & 22 at 202 Altschul in Barnard College.
This year's festival celebrates 100 years of Philippine cinema and the continued growth of filmmaking from the Philippines and from the diaspora. Once a colonizing tool, cinema has now grown to be one of the country's greatest cultural assets. However, Filipino cinema has had little exposure due to the lack of funding and government initiative. ARKIPELAGO remains one of the few institutions that provide opportunities to...