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VOL. 6 ISSUE 188 • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2013
ENTERTAINMENT
Multi award-winning Singaporean film ‘Ilo Ilo’ hits local cinemas today
SINGAPORE’S entry into next year’s Oscars and multi-awarded film, “ILO ILO,” finally hits local theatres as today.
Touches upon the challenges and experiences faced by the Philippines’ overseas workers, particularly those who acquire jobs as household helps for foreign families, acclaimed Singaporean director Anthony Chen took inspiration from his experience, growing up under the care of a Filipina his family had hired as a maid when he was still a little boy. In his Academy Awardnominated film “ILO ILO,” his experiences in growing up under her care are somehow reflected in the story of a child named Jiale (Koh Jia Ler) and his family’s household help, Terry (Angeli Bayani). “ILO ILO” details the story of a “Auntie Terry” who accepts work as a maid for a middle-class family living in a tenement in Singapore. In taking upon this new chapter in her life, she quickly discovers her biggest challenge: the precocious tenyear old son of her employ-
ers. The boy tries to make her life a living hell by being difficult, disobedient, and rude—even framing her for acts that aim at her getting deported. Other challenges arise as the boy’s family struggles with their finances. However, with determination and tough love,
the relationship between the two slowly changes, ultimately putting things far greater than employment on the line. “ILOILO” stars Angeli Bayani, Koh Jia Ler, Yeo Yann Yann, and Tian Wen Chan. In Davao City, “ILO ILO” will be shown at the Cinema of SM City Davao.
Investigative Documentaries: A program with a lot of math If one were to factor in all elements that make a television program succeed, Investigative Documentaries (ID) would not. It is full of numbers, which a lot of TV viewers are not too keen on analysing. It airs at 8 in the evening, when soaps reign supreme. It tackles government policies, systems, and processes, which many find too unwieldy. Yet the program, hosted by veteran journalist Malou Mangahas, has found a core group of supporters, making it one of the highestranking programs on GMA News TV, the country’s number 1 news channel. This year, it won the St. Hildegarde Award for Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Media, an honor given by St. Scholastica’s College. Just last month, the Catholic Mass Media Awards named it Best Public Service Program. This was followed by the Department of Health Media Awards’ Health Media Recognition for its episode on nutrition just last month. To top it all off, Metrobank
Foundation named ID program host Mangahas as one of this year’s Journalists of the Year. “ID was born nearly three years ago on a few modest goals. We wanted to produce a program that would tackle with reason, candor, and solid research -- rather than shock or scare or dazzle -- issues and events with large public interest and impact; enrich and add value to the public discourse by offering data on the backward and forward links of our stories as a people; and help locate the role of Filipino citizens, even as we firmly hold public officials and agencies accountable, in addressing problems and rolling out solutions,” says Mangahas. And while it has been a joke that students take up mass communication to avoid mathematics, doing the math and analyzing government’s numbers have become the core competency of the ID staff. ”Just as important, we had wished, too, that as the ID staff constantly try to ac-
cess information and documents from government agencies for our stories, we could also help inform our viewers about how they can assert and practise their right to know and secure information they need, want, and are entitled in law to get, because these involve public welfare and the use of public funds,” says Mangahas. The past three years, ID has tackled, at length, issues that bring to light the impact of government policies and programs. It has devoted numerous episodes on assessing the performance of political clans, corruption in infrastructure projects, and neglected social concerns. Naturally, the program’s Facebook page has become a watering hole of sorts for those with opinion on politics and governance. ID’s Facebook page has 137,000 supoorters, a feat for a serious program with loads of math. Investigative Documentaries airs at 8 PM every Thursday night on GMA News TV.
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