Award-winning Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s nine-hour film about the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month. The festival ...

a 16th-century tribal chieftain in the Philippines known to have slain the famed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Who is Lapu-Lapu, and why is he being celebrated by Filipino migrants in ...

The festival, celebrated especially in the central Philippines, honours Datu Lapu-Lapu, the Filipino chieftain who famously defeated Spanish forces led by Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of ...

ON April 26, the Filipino immigrant community in Vancouver, Canada, held a festival honoring Lapu-Lapu, the Mactan chieftain who vanquished Ferdinand Magellan and his men in battle in April 1521. What ...

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.

The incident happened as the Filipino community in Vancouver celebrated Lapu Lapu in remembrance of indigenous chief Lapulapu who led the defeat of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in a battle ...

Not only did it depict the clash between Lapulapu and Ferdinand Magellan, but it also brought audiences into the deeper stories of the local heroes who earned their place in history. The ...

TORONTO, April 30, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Magellan Aerospace Corporation ("Magellan") announced today the signing of important agreements (LTAs) with Pratt & Whitney Canada. Pratt & Whitney is an ...

The incident occured during a gathering of Filipinos in Vancouver to celebrate Lapu-Lapu, the indigenous chief who led the defeat of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.

VANCOUVER, B.C., April 27, 2025 - BC Premier David Eby speaks at the scene where at least twelve people were killed by a ...