In the Community Portraits category, Reporter’s Notebook is nominated for its “Burak at Pangarap” episode about 12-year-old Junjun, one of the 78,000 children in Metro Manila left homeless when a fire razed more than a hundred houses in Malabon City.
“Front Row” is a finalist in the Best Public Affairs Program category for its feature on the disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), that took viewers beyond the Ice Bucket Challenge to show the real story behind the disease in the eyes of the patients and their families.
The historial series “Katipunan’s” first episode, “Teresa” is nominated for best camera work. In the Biography /Profiles category, “Reel Time” is nominated for “Dungkoy,” a 10-year-old boy from Calauan, Laguna, left alone by his parents to take care of his paralyzed grandma.
“Motorcycle Diaries” is nominated for “Karapatan ng Bata” episode in the Human Concerns category. It’s about how poverty denies countless Filipino children their basic rights shown through various less fortunate children in the country.
“Walang Rape sa Bontok,” one of the winning entries in the first Cine Totoo Documentary Festival is a finalist in the Film/Documentaries category. The documentary by Carla Samantha Ocampo tells the story of two sexually abused Filipinas. GMA News TV’s “May Pag-asa” station ID, a collection of stories of hope that aims to show the power of the human heart to see light in the midst of darkness is also a finalist in the Station/Image Promotion category. All finalists will proceed to a second round of judging by award-winning industry experts from around the globe. Winners will be presented at the 2015 Television and Film Awards Ceremony scheduled on April 14 in Las Vegas.
