Category: Blog
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Attending an independent filmmaking workshop – Making food for the soul
Here’s an account of how I made a film and gained experience from Michael Goorjian’s indie filmmaking workshop. I was chosen out of 80 applicants along with 20 other classmates and boy, was it an experience to remember.
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The labyrinth of life and death: Filipino tragedies and how I overcame insomnia during COVID
Just two Sundays ago, an overseas Filipino community in Vancouver, Canada was having a Filipino cultural festival and celebration (the Lapu-Lapu Festival named after our hero), when a speeding SUV rammed into the crowd at the foodstalls and killed 11 people, including a 5-year-old girl. On May 1, in Tarlac, Philippines, 10 people were killed…
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On watching movies in the theatre
At film school last semester, I became attuned to the importance of the debate whether movie theatres will still exist or not in the future, and how it’s important to still watch movies in the theatre. (I guess the first time I heard about this debate was in 2021, through my Intro to Filmmaking class,…
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The Past, Present, and Future of Blogging (from my point of view)
I wish I could be a teenager again and blog the way that I used to. I often wrote about this on the old version of this Wonderfilled Issa blog, but yeah. I had so much time as a homeschooler just to rave about football, my favourite shows and computer games, Lord of the Rings…
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Reflections on Celebrimbor as a fallen artist
Celebrimbor stuck out to me as a character I heavily empathised with during the second season of Rings of Power, which surprised me because I was annoyed by him and his hubris during the first season.
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Attempts of taking pictures like HONY
(a very old draft I unexpectedly found from my old blog on Feb. 20, 2015!) I took some photos on the way to a dinner with some Filipino-German friends the night before the World Cup Finals, and it is interesting to see a country distant from some historical event’s location the afternoon before it will…