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Call for Entries: Cine Totoo to award 11 documentary filmmaking grants


CINE TOTOO, the 1st Philippine International Documentary Film Festival, is now accepting documentary proposals for its local competition section.
 
A special project of GMA News TV Channel 11, CINE TOTOO will be awarding grants worth P150,000 each to 11 Filipino documentarists to produce their dream documentaries.  These will be screened in competition in local theaters next year.
 
Three winners will be chosen from those in competition: Best Documentary Film, Special Jury Prize and Audience Choice Award. The winnerswill not only receive trophies and cash prizes – their films will also be aired in primetime slots on the country’s no. 1 news channel.
 
“We hope to meet the next generation of documentary directors and producers through CINE TOTOO.  We look forward to powerful stories as well as personal stories, documentaries with a unique point of view beyond what we have been accustomed to seeing locally,” says GMA News TV Channel Head Nessa Valdellon. 
 
CINE TOTOO’s jury will be composed of some of the country’s award-winning  documentary producers, led by Festival Director Joseph Laban. The festival will also have an ASEAN competition section, open to feature length documentaries from all over the region.
 
Deadline for submissions is January 10, 2014.  Questions can be sent to info@cinetotoo.com or facebook.com/cinetotoo.