8 GMA finalists at New York Festivals

MANILA, Philippines - Eight entries from GMA Network were named as finalists at the 2015 New York Festivals World’s Best TV and Films competition.

Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho was shortlisted in the Human Interest category for its episode From Saudi with Love. A story about gratitude that crosses borders and defies language barriers, religion and ethnicity, the episode featured Saudi journalist Rawan Radwan’s search for her former Pinay nanny. 

Chosen as one of the finalists in the Community Portraits category was Reporter’s Notebook for its Burak at Pangarap episode. It centers on the story of 12-year-old Junjun, one of the 78,000 children in Metro Manila facing severe deprivation of shelter, after his family was left homeless when a fire razed their home and more than a hundred other houses in Malabon City. 

Front Row, in turn, made it as a finalist in the Best Public Affairs Program category for its feature on the neurodegenerative disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

Katipunan  earned a finalist status for its episode titled Teresa under the Best Camerawork category. Produced by GMA News and Public Affairs, the GMA’s first historical mini-series shed light on the real Andres Bonifacio and the men and women who started the revolution.

Meanwhile, nominated in the Biography/Profiles category was GMA News TV’s Reel Time featuring Dungkoy, a 10-year-old boy from Calauan, Laguna, who was abandoned by his parents and was left alone to take care of his paralyzed grandmother. 

Motorcycle Diaries’ Karapatan ng Bata episode also on GMA News TV, was named as a finalist in the Human Concerns category.

Walang Rape sa Bontok, one of the winning entries at the first Cine Totoo Philippine Documentary Festival produced by GMA News TV, was listed as a finalist in the Film/Documentaries category. The documentary by Carla Samantha Ocampo tells the story of two Filipinas, both victims of sexual abuse. 

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, was chosen as one of the finalists in the Station/Image Promotion category.

Winners will be presented at the 2015 Television and Film Awards Ceremony scheduled on April 14 in Las Vegas.