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They make an interesting study, the families of Old Binan, Laguna. In most places, “old family” connotes an attenuated, if not completely dissipated, fortune. True, the Old Binan families have had their economic vicissitudes like all the other old Filipino families, but as a whole, they are amazing because their old agricultural fortunes luckily, gradually, and smoothly transformed to urban real estate fortunes and other consistently lucrative holdings. In other words, they are “still up there”… One actually wonders if the “feng shui” of Binan, for hundreds of years traditionally a Chinese enclave, has anything to do with it.
From the Spanish era all the way to the present, Binan, Laguna has always been the center of economic activity south of Manila. It has only been in recent years that neighboring Santa Rosa, with all its fortuitous new developments, has come to challenge Binan’s long-held economic preeminence.
Old Binan, Laguna [ pronounced “Been-yang” by its natives ] resonated with the surnames of rich hacendero and merchant families like the Gana, Carillo-Trinidad, Alberto, Ocampo, Mercado, Yatco, Yaptinchay, Guico, Yapchulay, Lim-Aco, Lopez de Leon, Yap, Lim
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Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States, and the recent boom in streaming services has made it easier than ever for audiences looking for Spanish-language movies to find them. Earlier this year, Alfonso Cuarón’s landmark film Roma earned an impressive 10 Oscar nominations, and the director took home three statuettess for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Foreign Language Film. He followed the wins of his fellow Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro (Best Director and Best Picture for The Shape of Water) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Best Picture for Birdman, Best Director for Birdman and The Revenant). Their accomplishments have brought the resurgence of Mexican cinema to Hollywood’s doorstep.
However, the picture is not so rosy for other Latin American movies and filmmakers trying to break into an industry that has been ignoring smaller independent films in favor of franchises, and the U.S. Latino and Hispanic filmmakers still fighting for their one shot at working in the movie business. In the United States, Latino and Hispanic moviegoers are almost