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Meet some of the Team for "Alamat: Alamat NG Bayabas
(The Legend of the Guava)," which won a Gold Camera and Best of Show in
Entertainment in the 2016 competition: (from left) Andre G. Buencamino, Racquel
S. Gacho, Don Carlo R. Suratos, Catherine G. Frayco, USIFVF Chairman Lee Gluckman,
GMA Chairman and CEO Atty. Felipe L. Gozon, Marjorie M. Dumont, Eleazar del
Rosario and Krisette M. Grajo.
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“GMA
pulled out all the stops again to make this awards presentation great,” said
Lee Gluckman, chairman of US International Film & Video Festival of his
October 2016 visit to Quezon City in the Philippines to deliver awards to GMA Network Inc.
More
than 50 on-camera personalities and creative staff, plus the network
chairman were in attendance for the presentation along with their news crew to ensure that each group
of awardees would be seen by GMA’s television audience across the
Philippines. “Alamat,”
GMA’s top prize entry film -- Best of Show and a Gold Camera -- encourages
responsibility among children, and adults as well, through the story of a king
who put himself first while his people went hungry.
GMA
won 10 awards. Winning
a Gold Camera First Place and a nomination for Best of Show was
"Reel Time: Isang Paa Sa Hukay (The
Price of Gold)" in Documentary: Public Affairs Programs. Portraying the Camarines Norte's small-scale
gold mines, the entry examines the extreme poverty of a Philippino town where
underage children dive into incredibly dangerous locations in search of tiny
amounts of gold as they struggle in dramatic poverty.
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“Reel Time” Executive Producer Jayson
Bernard B. Santos
(from left),
with John Michael G. Cristobal,
researcher, and Enrico Gaa, video
journalist
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The
filmmaker won second place Silver Screen Awards for "Reporter's Notebook:
Hikbi sa Ibayong Dagat (Far From Home)" in Documentary: Public Affairs
Programs, and for "I-Witness: Kawayang Pangarap (Bamboo Dreams)" in
Documentary Programs: Biography.
GMA’s
seven Certificates of Creative Excellence went to "Brigada (The Brigade):
Para Sa Pangarap (For a Dream" in Documentary: Social Issues; "Front
Row: Maestra Salbabida (Teacher, Lifesaver" in Documentary: Social
Issues"; "Idol Sa Kusina" in Entertainment: Cooking;
"Investigative Documentaries: Gutom (Wasted)" in Documentary: Social
Issues; "Karelasyon: Tres Rosas (Liaisons: Three Roses)" in
Documentary: Docudrama; "Pepita Manaloto" in Entertainment: Situation
Comedy; "Eternal: Real-Life Love Stories: Gabriela and Silang Love
Story" in Documentary: Docudrama.
