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The cover of the newly released "Closer to Home" DVD
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Jersey City, NEW JERSEY, December 1, 2004 --- Joseph Nobile’s critically acclaimed film, “Closer to Home,” featured in over 26 international film festivals, is now available on DVD, the Elibon films announced.
The film weaves a universal, haunting tale of two people inexorably drawn together for vastly different reasons. It is about Dalisay , a Filipina who struggles to journey from the Philippine countryside to New York City to marry Dean, a disillusioned ex-merchant American marine. She’s hoping to buy a cure for her dying sister and, ultimately, a future for her debt-ridden family, while he hopes to escape his disintegrating American family through love and a family of his own.
A powerful, controversial film that quietly builds to a shattering collision of aspirations and cultures.
The critics agree that “Closer to Home” is a must-see film.
“A fine debut. Another Green Card Romance, but this time, the broader canvas —in both the Philippines and the US — gives the story a wider emotional range and a near epic feel,” said Michael Wilmington of The Chicago Tribune.
Nestor U. Torre of Philippine Daily Inquirer said: “...A creative and rewarding juxtaposition of two cultures, two families and two interesting individuals...a new look at the Filipino-American relationship ...”
To buy DVD, read reviews, photos and news about Nobile’s upcoming project “The Rootcutter,” visit the official website, www.elibonfilms.com, or log on to www.Amazon.com.
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NEW YORK, December 1, 2004 --- When the Philippine government declared a national policy on nutrition 30 years ago, it sought an assessment of the country’s nutrition plans and programs.
With the release of Cecilia A. Florencio’s book, “Nutrition in the Philippines: The Past for its Template, Red for its Color,” it is such a fitting time to give a concentration on issues related to what Filipinos should know to live a healthy life.
The book describes and analyzes the advances and shortfalls in the country’s thinking and efforts to address the long-standing, widespread, and layered problem of malnutrition in infants, children, adolescents, pregnant and lactating women, adults, and the elderly.
Florencio recommends reflection and action, on both specific and broad fronts, and, while recognizing the reality of an increasingly borderless world. And, she calls for the country to address its nutritional situation with the national interest and priorities first.
In the sypnosis of he book, it tells about the country’s nutritionscape “where the history, governance, culture, economics, education, science, health, technology, agriculture, industry, and international relations meets and interface.”
The book is likewise as much as about many other countries in both the East and West as it is about the Philippines. In the global community, it is estimated that 800 million peope are food insecure, and 170 million young children suffer from undernourishment. If the nutrition problems will not be alleviated, many Filipinos await a bleak future.
Nutrition has already progressed from myth to science and technology. However, it is only when the government recognizes the human right to food and health that the past will become a worthy template for the future, only then will red change to green.
Florencio was a former member of the Governing Board of the National Nutrition Council (the Philippines’ highest policy making bdy in nutrition) and advisor in nutrition to several member agencies of the Council and international organizations.
Since the 1970s, she had been undertaking studies on nutrition policies and conducting research on food and nutrition plans and programs at local, national, and international levels.
She is a fellow of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences and a member of the advisory board of several nutrition journals in Asia and the United States.
Presently, Florencio is a professor at the University of the Philippines. She is the president of the Philippine section of Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN), an international nongovernmental organization promoting the fundamental human right to food and the realization of the right to feed oneself.
To order copies of the book, visit the Web site www.uppress.org, or e-mail: press@up.edu.ph or uppress@uppress.org.
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NEW JERSEY, December 1, 2004 --- World Class Filipino achievers, eight of them Filipino-Americans, were named as 2004 Filipinas Globalpinoy.com achievers. In partnership with Manila Times, the Philippines’ oldest newspaper, Globalpinoy.com is a five-year-old on-line resource, dedicated to overseas Filipinos, providing current information about the Philippines, its people, news, businesses and events.
It is also a convergence center which feature world class and bright achievers who embody the true lives of successful global Filipinos.
The 2004 Globalpinoy achievers are:- Veronica Pedrosa, CNN news anchor/correspondent based in Hongkong. Her family fled to London during the Martial Law under the dictatorial regime of President Ferdinand Marcos after her mother had written an unauthorized autobiography of Imelda Marcos;
- Monique Lhuillier, born in Cebu to a wealthy jeweler manufacturer and a former diplomat father. Her clients include Sarah Jessica Parker, Paris Hilton Christina Aguillera, Mariah Carey and Britney Spears;
- Toni Leviste, an Olympic equestrian and step daughter of former Senator and vice presidential candidate, Loren Legarda and former Board of Investments Governor Antonio Leviste. Her paternal grandparents, Alice (of Sorsogon) and Lauro Leviste were baptismal and confirmation godparents of Caroll Arevalo, managing partner of Georgetown, and Cara’s mom, one of the Global Pinoy achievers. Their families were among the early settlers of Makati during the early 50’s.
- Jackie Pangilinan, of Montclair, NJ. A 2004 Greek Olympics’ RP representative. Her Filipino father is married to a Syrian national.
- Cheryl Diaz-Meyer, 2004 Pulitzer Awardee for Breaking News Photography. Meyer was among the photo journalists who risked her life, during the early stage of the Iraq war.
- Haydee Yorac, a Ramon Magsaysay awardee, the former Human Rights Commissioner was head of the anti-corruption campaign and recovered $683 million from Marcos Swiss bank. She earned a Master’s degree in law from Yale University.
- Jasmine Trias and Camille Velasco, Talented American Idol finalists idolized in the Philippines and in the U.S.
- Cara Maria Margarita Salas-Arevalo. She is the CEO of upscale clothes and accessories shop, Georgetown Co., based in Washington, DC. and Cherry Hill, NJ. Since 13 years old, Cara, born in the Philippines, has become a regular exhibitor staff member at the prestigious Miss America Trade Show. Through her hardwork and dedication, Georgetown Co. has grown into profitable and a topnotch wholesaler and retailer of women’s apparel and accessories in Northeast, USA.
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