The Academy awarded its top prize to the documentary “for its painful examination of current realities, and a sober reminder that cinema is a powerful social mirror.” The film was also the most ...

Alyx Ayn Arumpac's debut documentary feature 'Aswang' examines the impact of the Filipino government's "war on drugs." By Neil Young A quietly nightmarish vision of dystopian social breakdown, Alyx ...

A still from FAMAS Awards 2020 nominee 'Aswang'. Credit: 'Aswang' official movie website Filipino documentary Aswang won Best Picture at the 2020 Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards ...

Aswang is a horror movie in the sense that it draws us, wide-eyed, through a landscape of horrors, led either by a roving activist pastor or a young, tresilient Virgil by the name of Jomari, who ...

Aswang (2019) Film Review from the 74th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Alyx Ayn Arumpac, featuring Ciraco Santiago III, Orly Fernandez, Vincent Go, and Ezra Acayan.

Filipinos are familiar with the aswang, a shape-shifting creature of Philippine folklore that preys on animals and humans at night. But while Filipinos' belief in other superstitions has waned over ...

Los Angeles—Just in time for the Halloween season, many aswang—Filipino folklore’s bloodsucking monsters—are invading Los Angeles’ Playwrights Arena. Fil-Am Jon Lawrence Rivera directs Boni B. Alvarez ...