This morning, the Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Hollywood (FACCHO) was officially recognized by the Mayor’s Office, Eric Garcetti and the City of Los Angeles.
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One of our newest members, Mylena Christina is a realtor, and she is active on a couple of West Hollywood boards and chambers. She joined the Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Hollywood during our inaugural event and membership drive at Barkada Hollywood at our Entertainer Tier Membership.
As a re-invented fitness entrepreneur since 2003 and now a successful real estate professional, Mylena Christina has used her nearly twenty years of sales and sales management background with blue chip technology films as solid foundation from adapting to evolving business opportunities. Her experiences cultivating profitable business relationships with Fortune 500 companies in Los Angeles and Chicago has honed her innate skills to personally connect with an array of clients and community contacts to grow her prodigious business and personal network. Mylena was awarded multiple top national sales honors in a technical, competitive and quickly-evolving industry and seamlessly parlays that intrinsic ability in real estate. Mylena actively engages with the City of West Hollywood where she is also a long-time resident. Mylena is proud to serve on the West Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Board. She also chairs their Member Relations Committee. She also serves on the board of the City’s destination marketing organization, Visit West Hollywood, making her a true and established WeHo market expert. Also certified as a personal trainer, Mylena inspires those around her with her effervescent attitude and energetic positivity. She derives gratification from knowing that her genuine sincerity and care helps people realize their home ownership dreams. It is this personalized, warm, detail-oriented and communicative approach that resulted in many delighted clients throughout the years. For over a decade, Mylena was also the proud owner and general manager of LIFT West Hollywood located on the corner of La Cienega and Melrose. Her previous corporate employers were AT&T, Cisco Systems and Omnicom. She is thrilled to be part of the Sotheby’s International Realty-Sunset Strip brokerage team. Offline, Mylena derives pleasures from solving the New York Times crossword puzzles and taking her two Shih Tzus for walks around WeHo. She is an ardent tennis player and is an active member of the United States Tennis Association. She is also a member of the Beverly Hills/Greater Los Angeles Associations of Realtors, California Association of Realtors and National Associations of Realtors. ##### Members are the life of our organization. By becoming a member, you gain access to people and businesses that can have a huge impact to your business needs. You also gain exclusive discounts to our events, and your membership supports FACCHO in its efforts to enhance our FilAm Community’s presence in the local industry. http://www.facchollywood.org/joinus.html The Filipino American business community in Southern California, through the Coalition of Filipino American Chambers of Commerce (COFACC), is assembling for the first time in its history a MEGA PICNIC and NETWORKING event among families and friends and members coming from five of the most active FACC Chambers in the country!
Come and enjoy the summer weather with games and raffle prizes at the Frank G. Bonelli Park in San Dimas, California on Saturday, July 14th from 9 am to 5 pm. Please check above flyer and connect with your local chapters for details of this event. See you there! https://www.facebook.com/events/1887460004886219/ The FilAm Chamber Commerce of Hollywood is hosting its inaugural event and membership drive. Come network, eat and be entertained.
Come celebrate with the FilAm Chamber of Commerce of Hollywood as we launch our association uniting businesses, artists and industry professionals in the entertainment industry on Thursday, July 12. Our journey begins with a celebration of FilAm food and FilAm art and performance…including eleven-year-old ventriloquist, Shane Selloria, comedian Erik Esteban, and visual art by Lyn Pacificar! Guests of honor include FilAm actor Reggie Lee (NBC’s "Grimm") and two-time Emmy Award-Winning television producer Marc Anthony Nichols (CBS’ "The Talk"). The inspiring evening will be hosted by two-time Emmy Award-Winning television host and content creator, Jackie Fernandez. Purchase your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/showtime-its-time-to-bridge-the-gap-tickets-47441314248 We cannot wait to see you there! Dress code: Hollywood Chic. Valet parking and street parking available. Attend our official “after party” of our event at Wolf & Crane located at 366 East 2nd Street, Los Angeles, California 90012! NO COVER. We are proud to announce that the Filipino American Chamber of Commerce Hollywood is a Community Partner with the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, May 3 – May 12, 2018.
And, we are co-presenting three films this year: THE CLEANERS, THE FEVER AND THE FRET and NEOMANILA. FACCHO Co-Presenters: Paul Mirador and Edwin A. Santos THE CLEANERS – Premiere Screening at Regal L.A. Live Theater #13 on May 7th at 6:30pm The documentary is about censorship on social media and internet technology in this day and age. Content cleaning is an outsourced job to the Philippines and this documentary shows their point of view. Filmmakers and cast in attendance. TICKETS: http://festival.vconline.org/2018/films/cleaners/ FACCHO Co-Presenters: Craig Obligacion-Wilson and Edwin A. Santos THE FEVER AND THE FRET – Premiere Screening at Regal L.A. Live Theater #14 on May 9th at 7:00pm An experimental film, shot in black and white, about a Filipina artist in New York, escaping trauma of being bullied through fantasies. Filmmakers and cast in attendance. TICKETS: http://festival.vconline.org/2018/films/fever-and-the-fret/ FACCHO Co-Presenters: Craig Obligacion-Wilson and Edwin A. Santos NEOMANILA – Premiere Screening at Regal L.A. Live Theater #14 on May 9th at 9:15pm Since President Duterte’s election, the Philippines has been in the grip of the “war on drugs,” where police use bounty hunters to kill gangsters. Toto, a street orphan, is caught in the crossfire when he’s recruited by a notorious death squad in this noir-infused explosive thriller by one of the most exciting young voices in Filipino cinema. Filmmaker in attendance. TICKETS: http://festival.vconline.org/2018/films/neomanila/ *** Sign up for our newsletter and we will send you our discount code before you purchase your tickets for this film at:facchollywood@gmail.com *** After the screening, meet NEOMANILA filmmaker Mikhail Red at our casual meet and greet in Downtown Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 9th, 11pm at Angel City Brewery presented by the Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Hollywood: Business and Entertainment. http://bit.ly/MikhailRedMeetnGreet Change of Filipino Filmmakers mindset, strategy & collaborative efforts saw the beginnings of partnerships. With a budding Entrepreneurship movement, the FilAm Film Movement is bound to explode tying Businesses & Filmmakers. A cultural shift will happen here in SoCal.
A business meeting that will change the Filipino Filmmakers mindset, strategy, and collaborative efforts. It saw the beginnings of a partnership between the Honorable Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles Adelio Cruz, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Voice of Business, Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Los Angeles Inc, Filipino American Chamber of Commerce – SouthBay Los Angeles Area, Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Orange County, FACC Tri-County, Filipino-American Chamber of Commerce of San Diego and us. With a growing food movement, a psychology movement, and a budding Entrepreneurship movement, the FilAm Film movement is bound to explode marrying FilAm Businesses and FilAm Filmmakers. A cultural shift amongst Filipino Filmmakers in America is about to happen, it started here in SoCal. And it took a large step further last night. Our new logo for the Filipino American Chamber of Commerce, Hollywood was created on December 19, 2017.
The Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Los Angeles’ Gerry Palon welcomes Craig Obligacion Wilson as President of the Filipino American Chamber of Commerce of Hollywood. Congratulations!
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