We have a confession to make. Whenever a teleserye is announced to start airing, we practically skip the first few episodes because we know these will ultimately consist of the backstory to the main ...

MANILA, Philippines - TV5’s Kidlat ends its first season with an epic superhero crossover. In the final two weeks of the series, Kidlat (played by Derek Ramsay) finds an ally in the newest superhero ...

Installation view of Kidlat Tahimik: Magellan, Marilyn, Mickey & Fr. Dámaso: 500 Years of Conquistador RockStars at the Palacio de Cristal, Madrid (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) MADRID — ...

Pinoys do not have to look far to discover a treasure-trove of superheroes. The Filipino Komiks era may have long gone but the Pinoy superhero lives on, this time in several movies and TV shows that ...

National Artist for Film Kidlat Tahimik’s favorite story of Jose Rizal was when the Spanish government allowed the exhibition of about 40 ethnic Filipinos including Igorots in the Exposición de las ...

Kidlat is a 2013 weekly Philippine television drama that broadcast on TV5. It stars Derek Ramsay. On December 17, 2012, TV5 unveils its Kidlat billboard on EDSA, but it caused heavy traffic at EDSA, ...

Like his film’s hero Enrique of Malacca, first man to circumnavigate the world, Filipino filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik has come full circle. Kidlat won the Caligari Prize in the Forum section of the ...

“Don’t be intimidated by that national artist title. I’m still your National Tatay.” This was what filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik told a group of young Baguio-based artists, who came to Manila with him to ...

Selected works by Philippine National Artist Kidlat Tahimik will be screened online and free to help introduce Philippine artists and their works overseas Source: AAP Image/EPA/Javier Lizon Films will ...

Kidlat Tahimik won the Caligari Prize at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival for his film Balikbayan #1. The Filipino director is joined in this photo by his wife Katrin de Guia (left frame).