Vancouver artist Jorelle Almeda integrates Philippine history into performances and screenplays
December 16, 2023 — William Howard Taft is best known as the 27th president and 10th chief justice of the United States. Prior to this, Taft was his country’s first civilian governor of the Philippines from 1901 to 1903. But when Filipino Canadian screenwriter Jorelle Almeda came up with an amusing TV pilot on this topic, his peers were befuddled.