Pro-Life Film-Making Contest Awarding May 20
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Pro-Life Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) will be awarding the winners of the 1st Pro-Life Film-Making Contest on May 20, 2006 at the NCCA Auditorium, Intramuros, Manila. This event will also include short lectures on film production by film and broadcasting experts, who also served as judges at the contest dubbed “Life, Camera, Action!”
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Ace cinematographer Dick Trofeo of Cine K is a member of the Kapisanan ng mga Pelikulang Pilipino and the Camera Club of the Philippines. He is a past president of the Filipino Society of Cinematographers and deputy director of the Film Academy of the Philippines.
Renowned broadcaster Ma. Mercedes “Chi-chi” Robles teaches at the Ateneo de Manila University, University of the Philippines, and the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication. Besides being an anchor for special events at the PTV/NMN network, Robles is also member of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Technical Panel for Social Sciences, Humanities and Communication.
Alternative film-maker Rica Arevalo wrote and directed “ICU Bed #7,” a film that deftly tackles family and end-of-life issues and which won for Best Direction at the 2005 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. The film also bagged the 2nd prize at the 53rd Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2003. Arevalo’s screenplays, “Mana” (1998) and “Pamilya” (2000), garnered 1st and 3rd place respectively in the Film Development Foundation of the Philippines’ Scriptwriting contest.
“Life, Camera, Action!” drew entries from college and university students in and outside Metro Manila, one of whom will take home the top prize of P25,000. Second and 3rd place winners receive P15,000 and P10,000.
Admission to the awarding and lectures is free. For details, pls. call Pro-Life Phils. at 911-2911 or 422-8877, or email
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