Rustica Cruz Carpio was a Filipino actress, scholar, playwright, philanthropist, and public servant.
13 Facts About Rustica Carpio
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Rustica Carpio received acclaim for her role as Lola Puring in Grandmother, a film by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza which was selected to compete in various international film festivals, including Venice and Dubai.
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Rustica Carpio served as dean of two schools of communication in Manila, and a graduate school.
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Rustica Carpio recounted that she started to sing in an operetta at age 10.
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Rustica Carpio was educated at the Philippine College of Commerce in Manila, now Polytechnic University of the Philippines, where she finished an associate degree in commercial science with honors.
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Rustica Carpio was a UNESCO fellow in Dramatic Arts at the National School of Drama and Asian Theatre Institute in New Delhi, India.
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Dr Rustica Carpio organized PUP's Department of Mass Communication in 1987, and became its first chairperson and first dean of the College of Communication.
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Rustica Carpio was the founder of the Master in Mass Communication program in 1990 of the PUP Graduate School.
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Rustica Carpio 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.
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Rustica 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.
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Rustica Carpio was a lecturer of mass communications, literature, and theatre arts at PUP, UST, PLM and FEU.
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Rustica Carpio served as public servant and was appointed to various government posts in the Philippines, such as the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board, where she served as board member from 1996 to 1998, Videogram Regulatory Board, she was a member of the Movie Committee on Appeals.
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Rustica Carpio died in Imus, Cavite, on 1 February 2022, at the age of 91.