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*Just booked a principle role on Comedy Central's "Nick Swardson's Pretend Time" as Zargon, the alien.

* Currently featured with the Actor's Circle in the article "When Failing is the Best Option" written by Mark Dundas for
BackStage, the actor's resource.

Please click www.backstage.com

*Starring in "Busong Palawan Fate", World Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival 2011 as Aris, a young man in search of himself.

Busong is the indigenous Palawan concept of Fate. Mystical Punay was born with wounds on her feet so that she cannot step on the earth. Different people help to find a cure- a woman looking for her husband, a fisherman who lost his boat and a young man who is searching for himself- and each one meets their fate. The first Palawanon indigenous film.

Please click www.busongpalawanfate.com

* Starring in " The Institute Films", as Bambi, the lovable foreign exchange student in search of the American dream.

Set in the 70's, the school for students looking to break into the exciting new world of Porn. Watch and learn about the origin of the world's first porn school.

Please click www.theinstitutefilms.com

* Featured on the  AMDA's website for attending the wolrd premiere of his film Busong at the 2011 Cannes Film festival. The movie is the centerpiece of the Directors Fortnight program at the Cannes Film Festival. Clifford stars as Aris.

Please click www.amda.edu/blog

* Featured on the LA Times website for his roles in "Brüno" & "Altar Boyz," the cheeky musical satire that is playing at the Celebration. Bañagale plays Mark, a comedicly explosive & sexually ambiguous member of a Christian boy band.

Please click www.latimes.com

* Featured on EDGE Entertainment website. Clifford describes his co-starring role in Sacha Baron Cohens Brüno. The Philippines native talked to EDGEs Jim Halterman about Brüno and beyond.

Please click www.edgeboston.com

* Featured on Asian News Network for winning great reviews starring as Mark, a boy band members in an ongoing LA production of Altar Boyz. Winner of the 2005 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. A story about five small town boys trying to save the world one screaming fan at a time.

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