Catch the Cine Totoo docu winners on GMA News TV

CEBU, Philippines - For all those who missed the theater screenings of Cine Totoo, GMA News TV airs the four winning documentaries of the 1st Cine Totoo:  Philippine International Documentary Festival on primetime television starting Sunday, October 26.

Best Documentary and Audience Choice Award winner “Gusto Nang Umuwi ni Joy,” a film by Jan Tristan Pandy, airs this Sunday. The film tells the story of Joy, who is not just one of about 200,000 Filipinos living and working in the United Kingdom — she is also one of an estimated 1.1 million undocumented migrants from various countries there. Her status carries with it many risks, the greatest being the possibility of apprehension and deportation by the UK Home Office. Working as a nanny and cleaner to support her family in Batangas, Joy seeks the aid of solicitors to render her stay lawful. There is no guarantee that the Home Office will decide in her favor, however  —  all she can do is submit to the process and hope that her petition for legalization will be granted.

“Gusto Nang Umuwi ni Joy” follows Joy as she attends to her daily responsibilities, communicates with her husband and grandchildren and keeps up with Philippine current affairs and soap operas, all the while looking forward to the prospect of at last coming home to everyone and everything she has labored and endured so much for. The documentary took home not just the Best Documentary Prize from Cine Totoo, it also won the Audience Choice Award based on votes from Cine Totoo’s theater patrons in Trinoma, SM Megamall and SM Manila.

Cine Totoo’s Special Jury Prize winner “Mananayaw” by Rafael Froilan, in turn, will air on November 2. “Walang Rape sa Bontok” by Carla Samantha Ocampo and “Kung Giunsa Pagbuhat ang Binisayang Chopsuey” (How to make Visayan Chopsuey) by Charliebebs Gohetia, which both earned Special Mention Certificates, will be shown on November 9 and November 16, respectively.

Catch all the winning documentaries of the 1st Cine Totoo Philippine International Documentary Festival beginning this Sunday, 9:30 p.m. on GMA News TV. (PR) (FREEMAN)