My Filipino Connection

Award-winning Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Ruben Nepales interviews Filipino Americans and Filipinos in America who have made it big in the Hollywood scene and beyond: actors Bernardo Bernardo, Alec Mapa, Vanessa Hudgens, Hailee Steinfeld, and Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, singers Charice Pempengco, Luisa Mendez-Marshall, and Charmaine Clamor, TV star Darren Criss, model-actress Bessie Badilla, film production insiders Maricel Pagulayan and Isabel Henderson, cinematographer Matthew Libatique, animators Gini Santos, John Butiu, Ronnie del Carmen, and Ricky Nierva, filmmaker Ramona Diaz, comic-book illustrator Tony DeZuniga, YouTube sensation Mikey Bustos, and White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford.