April 16 - 30, 2016
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY
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GMA Network Brings Home 4 New York Fest Medals
Kara David among this year’s award presenters
GMA Network proudly
took home 4 world medals and
5 finalist certificates at the 2016
New York Festivals, which also
had Kapuso broadcast journalist
Kara David as one of the award
presenters at the awards ceremony held in Las Vegas April
19. GMA was the only Philippine
company with medal winners
this year.
The network’s News and
Public Affairs Group was responsible for the 4 medalists in
various categories. I-Witness,
the country’s longest running
documentary program, won the
bronze medal in the Community
Portraits category for “Dorm 12”,
where David featured aging and
forgotten inmates at the Correc-
tional Institute for Women.
Investigative news magazine Reporter’s Notebook won a
bronze award in the Social Issues
category for tackling urban migration in its “Hikahos sa Lungsod” episode, reported by Maki
Pulido.
Front Row’s “Maestra
Salbabida” took home a bronze
in the Community Service Programs category, depicting a
teacher in Mindoro who crosses
rivers using a makeshift floating
device to reach the barrio where
she teaches.
GMA News TV’s Reel
Time, on the other hand, earned
the bronze award inthe Human
Concerns category for its “Isang
Paa sa Hukay” documentary on
small-scale mining operations in
Camarines Norte.
David, meanwhile, was
the only media professional from
Asia named as one of this year’s
award presenters, which include
prominent international media
executives, talk show hosts and
content creators.
On the other hand, three
GMA News and Public Affairs
programs received finalist certificates: Philippine TV’s first-ever
bayaniserye Ilustrado, Bawal ang
Pasaway kay Mareng Winnie and
Brigada while two projects from
the network’s Program Support
Department were also shortlisted: Ilustrado’s opening billboard
and GMA News TV’s Father’s
Day plug.
GMA’s New York Fest medals were accepted by Senior Program Manager Angeli
Atienza,
News and Public Affairs’ First Vice President Nessa Valdellon and multi-awarded
I-Witness host and writer Kara David.
GMA Worldwide celebrates 20th year in the business
with new milestones
GMA Worldwide, Inc. (GWI),
a wholly owned subsidiary of
GMA Network, is celebrating its
20th anniversary, marking two
decades of showcasing GMA
programs to the ASEAN region
and beyond.
GWI is off to a rousing start
this year as it scored another victory with its sale of two top-rated
Kapuso programs, Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real and My Destiny’s
program formats to a Mexican
production company, Altavision Producciones, following its
groundbreaking sale of Munting
Heredera’s rights to Telefilm Atlantico.
“All the popular telenovelas that aired in the Philippines
were produced in Mexico,” explains Roxanne J. Barcelona,
Vice President of GWI and an expert in program acquisition and
syndication. “It makes us proud
knowing that viewers in that part
of the world will finally get to
watch some of our very own productions.”
With 20 years of being in
the content distribution and syndication business, GWI has become a force to reckon with in
the international content market,
creating new and exciting opportunities for GMA programs and
artists.
GWI recently concluded
another successful exhibition
at the prestigious MIPTV, the
world’s most established TV and
digital content market and the
largest gathering of entertainment industry professionals held
yearly in Cannes.
This year’s MIPTV attracted
nearly 11,000 delegates representing 100 countries, 1,620
production companies, 4,000
buyers, and 1,700 exhibiting
companies including GWI.
For this event, ongoing Kapuso programs Because of You,
Hanggang Makita Kang Muli,
The Millionaire’s Wife, Poor Señorita, and particularly Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real and My Destiny
captured the attention of foreign
buyers.
In 2015, GWI sold a total
A Mexican adaptation of Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real,
which starred Dingdong Dantes, Lovi Poe, and Ms
GMA Worldwide Vice President Roxanne J. Barcelona in Maricel Soriano, will soon reach viewers in Latin
America thru GWI
GWI’s booth at the recent Hong Kong Filmart
of 4,003 program hours to other
countries such as Cambodia,
Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Nigeria, Hawaii, Kenya and Zambia,
significantly increasing its annual
sales by 34 percent.
Truly at the top of its game,
GWI is committed to bringing
GMA’s content to more territories
around the world, while further
strengthening its