Watch out for Alamat, GMA's first local animated anthology series

Filipino children love animation. They support 24-hour cartoon channels, buy the merchandise, and attend events that feature their favorite characters. But the cartoons they watch have foreign themes and the characters they imitate rarely share the same values.
 
GMA News and Public Affairs attempts to change this with an animated series that tells Philippine stories and celebrates our own, unique culture. 
 
Entitled Alamat, the series features some of the country’s beloved myths and legends such as Ang Langgam at Tipaklong, Ang Mahiwagang Singsing, Alamat ng Bayabas and Mariang Sinukuan among others.
 
The program is child-friendly, but Filipinos of all ages will surely be enchanted by these stories.
 
The series will feature the work of talented Pinoy animators, some of whom worked on feature films and TV projects with big studios like Disney, Hanna Barbera and Cartoon Network. After entertaining audiences worldwide, they are happy to work with GMA and finally create original content for fellow Filipinos. Giving voice to the characters are artists Glaiza de Castro, Kylie Padilla, Gabby Eigenmann, Louise delos Reyes, Betong Sumaya, Pekto, John Feir, Bea Binene, Jeric Gonzales, Pen Medina, Roi Vinzon, Love Anover, Maey Bautista, and Tonipet Gaba.
 
It’s about time that the children of the Philippines had a cartoon series of their own.  GMA News and Public Affairs delivers with this groundbreaking animated project. Alamat airs July 2015 on GMA7.