By Fr. Drans Nolasco, SDB

Mandaluyong City, the Philippines, 14 January 2017 -- The Salesian Society of St. John Bosco (Philippine-North Province) through its Commission on Social Communications, held its Third Don Bosco Film Festival Awarding Ceremony last January 14, 2017 at the St. Dominic Savio Auditorium in Don Bosco Technical College, Mandaluyong City.

The theme for this year’s film festival was: Strengthening the Filipino Family with Christian Values. In the Spirit of the Year of the Family, the theme of the Third Don Bosco Film Festival wants to encourage the bosconian film makers to create films with stories that covey the strength of the families in whatever situation they are facing and encountering.

There were three major categories: 1-Minute Advertisement, 10-Minute Documentary Film, and 20-Minute Short Film.

Nine Don Bosco centers joined this year’s festival: Don Bosco Technical Institute (Tarlac), Don Bosco Academy (Pampanga), Don Bosco Technical College (Mandaluyong), Don Bosco Technical Institute (Makati), Don Bosco TVET Center (Makati), Don Bosco Youth Center (Tondo), and Don Bosco College (Canlubang), Don Bosco Youth Center (Calauan), Mary Help of Christians Parish (Mayapa).

The Board of Judges brought prestige, honor, and credibility to the festival as a whole. They were: TV/Film Director Mark Meily, Film Director Kip Oebanda, CSB Multi-Media Professor Ferdinand Gonzaga, Sound Director and Trainor Arnold Reodica, Respected Journalist Ed Lingao, and Actor Aljur Abrenica.

Below is the list of winners in this 3rd Don Bosco Film Festival:

• ONE-MINUTE ADVERTISEMENT
• BEST ONE-MINUTE AD – BIRTHDAY NI NANAY, DBTC Mandaluyong


• DOCUMENTARY FILM
• BEST IN EDITING – KULAY, DBTC Mandaluyong
• BEST STORY – MAY AWA YANG ATING PANGIOON AMEN, MHC Parish, Mayapa
• BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM - MAY AWA YANG ATING PANGIOON AMEN, MHC Parish, Mayapa


• SHORT FILM
• BEST IN EDITING - HALIK NG ULAN, Don Bosco Technical College, Mandaluyong
• BEST IN LIGHTS AND SOUND – TULAY SA PAGITAN NG LANGIT AT LUPA, DBTI Makati
• BEST IN CINEMATOGRAPHY - TANG, DBA Pampanga
• BEST IN VISUAL EFFECTS - SA PILING MO, DBYC Tondo, Manila
• BEST PERFORMER - KLEAVON MUSNGI, “Halik Ng Ulan
• BEST SCREENPLAY - HALIK NG ULAN, DBTC Mandaluyong
• BEST DIRECTOR - JIRO GARBES, “Tang”
• BEST PICTURE - TANG, DBA Pampanga

Adding life and beauty to the event were the inspiring song numbers of Bernadette Francisco, Sofia and Andrea Idioma, and Carl Nigel Sembrano; and the powerful dance number by the Fusion Force Dance Troupe of Don Bosco Technical College.

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