Rustica Carpio

Rustica Carpio is a Filipino actress, scholar, playwright, philanthropist, and former public servant. Most notably an actress, she has performed on stage, film, and television. She has received acclaim for her role as Lola Puring in Grandmother (Filipino: Lola), a film by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza which was selected to compete in various international film festivals, including Venice and Dubai. For her acting work in the said film, she was critically well-received, earning nominations and awards, winning the Gawad Urian for Best Actress, the Crystal Simorgh for Best International Actress at the Fajr International Film Festival in Iran, and the Las Palmas International Film Festival Best Actress award in Spain.[1]

A scholar, she has written more than 200 academic and journalistic articles, books, scripts, and stories published locally and abroad. She has also served as Dean of two (2) schools of communication in Manila, and a graduate school.

Early Life and Education

Carpio was born on 9 August 1930 at the province of Bulacan in the Philippines. She recounted that she started to sing in an operetta at age 10. She was educated at the Philippine College of Commerce in Manila, now Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Main (PUP), where she finished an Associate degree in Commercial Science with honors. She then pursued a Bachelor of Arts, major in English at Manuel L. Quezon University (MLQU), where she graduated magna cum laude. After winning Fulbright and International House scholarships, she chose New York University (NYU) in the United States for her graduate work, earning a Master of Arts in Education, major in Speech Education in 1956 at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. At the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila, she obtained her PhD in Literature, meritissimus, in 1979.[2]

She was a UNESCO fellow in Dramatic Arts at the National School of Drama and Asian Theatre Institute in New Delhi, India.

Career

Her first film role was in Ishmael Bernal’s Nunal sa Tubig in 1975, and in the more recent roles in Captive, where she played a social worker. In Aparisyon, she was cast as a troubled nun, and in Ano ang Kulay ng Nakalimutang Pangarap, where she magnified the dilemma of an aging nanny. Aside from being an actress, she is also a Palanca Award-winning essayist, and a playwright and stage director in different plays under her name.

Outside the entertainment industry, she is also an educator. Dr. Carpio organized PUP’s Department of Mass Communication in 1987, and became its first chairperson and first dean of the College of Communication. She was also the founder of the Master in Mass Communication program in 1990 of the PUP Graduate School. She was proponent for the building of PUP’s Claro M. Recto Auditorium, and in 1998, she conceptualized the establishment of the Mass Communication Center in PUP. She also served as the inaugural dean of the College of Mass Communication at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM).

Carpio served as consultant in arts and culture to PUP and was Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Culture at Far Eastern University (FEU). Presently, she is a lecturer of mass communications, literature, and theatre arts at PUP, UST, PLM and FEU.

A former public servant, she was appointed to various government posts in the Philippines, such as the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), where she served as board member from 1996 to 1998, Videogram Regulatory Board (1998 to 2000), she was a member of the Movie Committee on Appeals.

Awards

Wins

References

  1. ↑ "Rustica Carpio". IMDB. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Rustica Carpio: Drama is a mirror of life". Philippine Star. Retrieved 27 March 2016.

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