The best student documentaries that won in the “Class Project Intercollegiate Mini-Documentary Competition” are airing on Knowledge Channel at 7:30 p.m..
De La Salle University-Dasmarinas’ Lupang Pinangako: Mga Rizalista ng Ronggot, a documentary on a community of devout believers of Jose Rizal as a deity, banners the first ever “Class Project Winners Festival” on the educational channel after winning first place in the competition. It aired on April 6 together with second-placer Basilica from the Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU) Laguna that focused on the controversies surrounding the national historical shrine Taal Basilica.
Third-placer Southville International School and Colleges’ Manila Sound: Sunshine of the 70’s, meanwhile, aired yesterday. It tackles the rise of original Pilipino music (OPM) during the Martial Law era.
Knowledge Channel also airs the entries of the seven other finalists namely Escolta Redux from the University of Santo Tomas (April 13), Usapang Balangay from UST (April 20), KUPKOP from Leyte Normal University (April 20),tSuper from UST-Angelicum College, Inc. (April 27), Gulong from Batangas State University Lipa Campus (April 27) as well, Project: Pribyu from De La Salle University Lipa (May 4), and SERVEvivors from Batangas State University Lipa, also (May 4).
Launched in August 2017 by ABS-CBN, Knowledge Channel, and the Philippine Association of Communication Educators Foundation, Inc. (PACE), the “Class Project” documentary competition aims to give students a chance to hone their professional filmmaking skills and have their documentaries showcased to a wider audience.
In line with this, ABS-CBN News held documentary caravans last year at the University of Santo Tomas and the Holy Angel University in Pampanga, where acclaimed reporter Jeff Canoy was able to share with students his knowledge and experiences in making powerful documentaries such as Di Ka Pasisiil on the Marawi siege.
The competition culminated at the ABS-CBN’s “Pinoy Media Congress Year 12” at the College of the Holy Spirit Manila (CHSM) where the ten finalists and top three winners were recognized and awarded.
The “Pinoy Media Congress” is a project of ABS-CBN and PACE that gathers communication students and faculty from all over the Philippines for two days of talks and discussions on important issues on media featuring notable media practitioners and subject matter experts. Now on its 12th year, the project aims to help prepare the next generation of mass communicators for the field they are about to enter.
Over 1,200 delegates from 55 schools participated this year in CHSM and in Visayas, where an interactive live broadcast of the event was done at the Cebu Technological University. Students were also given the opportunity to participate in the Ricky Lee Scriptwriting Workshop and the “Bayan Mo, iPatrol Mo” citizen journalism and media literacy workshop, watch the film screening of restored classics like May Minamahal and Oro, Plata, Mata, or tour the studios of ABS-CBN.
Don’t miss Knowledge Channel’s “Class Project Winners Festival” featuring the ten finalists of the “Class Project Intercollegiate Mini-Documentary Competition” on cable or ABS-CBN TVplus.