Stony Brook University‘s Artificial Intelligence Innovation Institute (AI3) has named Lav Varshney, a researcher in AI and its applications, as inaugural director, effective Aug. 1. AI3 ...

By Jordan Mintzer If “Gael Garcia Bernal as Magellan” sounds to you like a pretty cool Netflix series, you have never seen a film by Filipino auteur and slow-cinema master Lav Diaz.

By presenting Ferdinand Magellan as a dogmatic, slave-owning colonialist who brooks no dissent from his quixotic mission, Filipino auteur Lav Diaz and his Mexican lead actor Gael García Bernal ...

Cannes: With his immersive latest, the Filipino director deconstructs the record of Portuguese explorer and colonizer Ferdinand Magellan. Should the nine-hour version eventually emerge for public ...

The first official image has been unveiled of acclaimed Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz in “The Sacrifice,” a psychological horror film currently in production in the Philippines. The award ...

The Cannes Premiere title is a departure for Diaz in several respects: by his usually super-spare standards, Magellan is handsomely mounted; it is one of his rare colour films; and it is his first ...

At least 51,000 of the 57,000 or over 90% of voters registered for the Local Absentee Voting (LAV) were able to cast their vote for the 2025 Philippine elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) ...

MANILA, Philippines — Votes from local absentee voting (LAV) are crucial and may spell victory for a senatorial candidate lagging behind the 12th slot, according to the Commission on Elections.

That’s the bold claim made by multiawarded independent filmmaker Lav Diaz in his latest work, “Magellan”—a film set to premiere at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival this May.

QUEZON CITY, (PIA) — Local absentee voting (LAV) has started today, April 28, allowing government employees and other qualified individuals to cast their votes ahead of the upcoming May 12, 2025 ...

One auteur who remains humble and low-key is Lav Diaz. But the greatness of the man goes beyond his choice of his simple daily get-up—black bucket hat, black long-sleeved shirt, and denims. He riddles ...

Sales agency Luxbox has come on board Lav Diaz’s historical drama “Magellan,” which stars Gael García Bernal. The film will have its world premiere in Cannes Film Festival’s Premiere section.