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| Posted: 25 Jul 2021 07:11 AM PDT I USED to freelance as an event photographer for TV5 years back when they had their promotional tours here in Davao. I was able to meet friendly and funny Empoy Marquez, who was then promoting his sitcom Mac and Chiz which he starred alongside Derek Ramsey and directed by 2014 Mindanao Film Festival juror Jade Castro. Got to meet Empoy again as he is in the cast of a TV5 drama-comedy series Niña Niño alongside Maja Salvador (Niña) and Noel Comia (Niño). Maja and Noel play siblings con-artists who meet a life-changing encounter. The TV series is directed by Thop Nazareno who helmed the 2017 Cinemalaya film Kiko Boksingero. During the media online meet-up, Empoy was again in his funny self when asked how it was working with Maja Salvador. In his deadpan manner, he said he was concerned that the beautiful Maja Salvador would fall for him in real life. Niña Niño is shown weeknights 7:15 p.m. on TV5 Regional filmmakers to Cannes Way back when we were starting the Mindanao Film Festival, there was a running joke about filmmakers going to Cannes. We would say Where in Cannes? Pantucannes (Pantukan) or Panacannes (Panacan). Well, that distant dream of joining Cannes Film Festival will soon be the thing of the past as with the support of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) several filmmakers/ film production outfits from Mindanao joined Cannes this year on both onsite and online platforms. A regional project in Zamboanga City "Dancing the Tides" by Xeph Suarez participated in the 2021 edition of La Fabrique, a film lab of the Cannes Film Festival. "Dancing the Tides" is the full-length version of the short film "Si Astri Maka Si Tambullah" which won the Best film award in the 2017 Mindanao Film Festival held in Davao City. Thirty-two other Filipino production companies were in Marché du Film. Held from July 6-15, the Marché du Film is the business side of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival where film industry professionals gather to discover new film projects and gain experience from one of the biggest film markets in the world. Among those who joined Marché du Film was Davao-based film production company Micromedia Digital and Video Production. "The market itself was outstanding, albeit intimidating at first. We had to learn a few platforms where we could watch talks, set up meetings, and watch screenings. I have never been to Cannes before, so in the few films I watched, I kind of got the sense of the identity of the festival," says Keisha Halili who co-owns and manages Micromedia along with her partner renowned Dabawenyo cinematographer McRobert Nacario. Hopefully, we could see more Mindanaoan films and companies participating in Cannes and other top-tier film festivals.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Converge ICT Solutions invades Davao City Posted: 25 Jul 2021 07:07 AM PDT CONVERGE ICT Solutions, the newest internet service provider in town, opened Tuesday, July 20, 2021, its first business center for Davao City and the rest of Mindanao at the Ateneo de Davao University Building, CM Recto Street. With the opening of its business center, the fastest fiber internet service provider can now better serve and cater to concerns of their existing and prospective clients as they provide Dabawenyo homes with fast, reliable, and affordable internet connection. Putting up two more business centers in north and south parts of the city is also their initial plan to serve more customers within their proximity, Everlyn Morales, Business Center Head for Business Center Operations said. "We will be opening an opportunity also for our premium dealers that will serve as business centers because right now we are in a pandemic situation, not everybody can come and visit our business center, so we are opening that opportunity later on to those business-minded people to become our premium dealers," Morales added. Converge ICT Solutions is the only Internet Service Provider that offers pure fiber-to-the-home Internet using the latest technology Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) that could provide a hundred-gig capacity to a subscriber compared to its other competitors that are still using Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) that can only bring about a hundred megabits per seconds (Mbps) for most networks, Sherwin Violango, Regional Sales Head for Mindanao, revealed. "As far as technology is concerned, we are apart [from other competitors]; that's why you got the internet you deserve because of the technology that we use," Violango said. Violango added that apart from its technology, Converge ICT Solutions also has an edge in the market in terms of customer's value for money as they are the only Internet service provider that offers a 35Mbps fiber internet plan for just P1,500, and it does not just end there. Converge ICT Solutions also has a unique and first in the market offering that allows customers to get higher internet speeds at a pre-set of the day, whether day or night, called the "Fiber X Time of Day", with a starting price of P1,899. "Every single centavo especially in this time of pandemic is very valuable, internet now is no longer a luxury, it is now becoming a necessity and every centavo that comes out of our pockets has a really important value, so with Converge products, the value for money is what we can offer in the market" Violango said. With the increasing population in Davao City who is still grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, Internet connectivity should not be anymore an issue especially that students and workers are in a work-from-home or online learning setup. Converge vision "to serve the unserved and underserved" is indeed timely and relevant during this time. And with its program to go "national" to reach deeper and wider places in order to be of service to the potential subscribers who were not being served with quality and reliable internet connection, Converge Davao will be going to hard-to-reach barangays who are longing to experience a good quality of internet connection as part of their roll-out plan, Violango added.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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