{"id":63723,"date":"2015-10-28T00:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T05:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=63723"},"modified":"2015-10-28T00:34:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T05:34:35","slug":"aiko-melendez-epy-quizon-win-international-acting-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/28\/aiko-melendez-epy-quizon-win-international-acting-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Aiko Melendez, Epy quizon win international acting awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63724\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12112052_870972976342936_4908504898227051685_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63724\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12112052_870972976342936_4908504898227051685_n.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo from Facebook)\" width=\"350\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12112052_870972976342936_4908504898227051685_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12112052_870972976342936_4908504898227051685_n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/epy.quizon?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aiko Melendez, bagged Best Actress Awards, while Epy Quizon won Best Actor at The International Film Festival Manhattan (IFFM) in New York City, a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Aiko Melendez who starred in the indie film, Asintado, directed by Louie Ignacio, ecstatically shared the news on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made it! Thank you, Lord Jesus! God is really good. He knows the perfect timing for everything,\u201d the award-winning actress wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Melendez thanked Ignacio, who also won Best Director; the film\u2019s producers, Dennis Evangelista and Ferdinand Lapuz; her co-actors, Gabby Eigenman, Jhake Vargas, Miggs Cuaderno, Rochelle Pangilinan and Rita Daniela. She also expressed gratitude towards her friends and the press.<\/p>\n<p>Aiko has earlier won Best Actress award for her role in Asintado at the 7th London International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Epy Quizon, on the other hand, used Facebook to extend thanks to the cast and crew of Unlucky Plaza, the film that won him Best Actor award. He thanked director Ken Kwek and co-actors Pang, Judee Tan, Guo Liang.<\/p>\n<p>Epy acknowledged his siblings Eric and Ronnie as his \u201cmentors in this field and in life\u201d and his sister Madonna, as well as his kids Leandro and Misha \u201cfor continuously inspiring me to do better all the time\u201d and his wife Rosanna who has been his \u201crock\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my mom, Alice,I hope to continuously make you proud&#8230; But most especially I share this award with my dad who I believe is smiling down on me from heaven&#8230; Dad please do me a favor and whisper to God for me. Please tell him that all the glory and honor is his,\u201d the actor wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aiko Melendez, bagged Best Actress Awards, while Epy Quizon won Best Actor at The International Film Festival Manhattan (IFFM) in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":63724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-63723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-katherine-padilla","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}