55 artists honored in NCCA’s Ani ng Dangal

THE National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) ends this year’s National Arts Month by awarding 55 artists in various fields at its annual Ani ng Dangal (Harvest of Honors), to be held today at the Diamond Hotel in Malate, Manila.
At the top of the list of this year’s awardees is NCCA Arts Ambassador, visual artist, and actor Ian Veneracion who won the Best Actor award for his performance in Dan Villegas’ horror film Ilawod (2017) at the 38^th Osporto International Film Festival in Lisbon, Portugal.
Joining Mr. Veneracion on the list is Rhiza “Ryza” Cenon Simbulan who won the Yakushi Pearl Award in the 13^th Osaka Asian Film Festival. Other awardees in the film category are Allen Dizon, Angeli Nicole Sanoy, Christian Apolinario, Christian Bables, Timothy Castillo. The films, Panahon ng Halimaw (2018), Bagahe (2017), Call Her Ganda (2018), and Jodilerks dela Cruz: Employee of the Month (2017), and directors Arjanmar Rebeta and Mikhail Red and scriptwriter Shereen Seno will also receive awards during the ceremony.
“For the first time, we had awardees in all the art forms, across all categories,” Teddy O. Co, commission for the arts and head of the subcommission for the arts, said at a press conference on Feb. 19 at the NCCA offices in Intramuros, Manila.
Now on its 11^th year, the Ani ng Dangal ceremonies were envisioned to recognize Filipinos and Filipino works in the arts field who brought glory to the country in the past year. The awards are given for architecture and the allied arts, broadcast arts, cinema, dance, dramatic arts, literary arts, music and visual arts.
“[The Ani ng Dangal] is given to those who garnered the top awards in legitimate festivals,” Marichu G. Tellano, deputy executive director of the NCCA said in the same press conference. For the Ani ng Dangal, the NCCA only recognizes competitions which have existed for not less than five years and which have adjudicators.
This year, the three awards will be given in the architecture category, two in broadcast arts, 17 in cinema, five in dance, one in dramatic arts, one in literary arts, 16 in music, and 10 in visual arts. Below is the complete list of awardees:
ARCHITECTURE AND ALLIED ARTS
• Earl Patrick Forlales, Grand Prize, Cities for Our Future Competition, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and the UK National Commission of UNESCO, United Kingdom, November 2018
• Kenneth Cobonpue, Best Seating Award, 22^nd Annual IIDA/HD Product Design Competition, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 2018
• Noriel Estipular, Best Sustainability Award, 34^th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Hong Kong, December 2018
BROADCAST ARTS
• ABS-CBN Di Ka Pasisiil, Gold World Medal, News: Reports/Feature Category, 2018 New York Festival Awards TV & Film, New York, April 2018
• GMA Network, Inc. Reel Time’s Hawla The Untold Story of the Village Monster, Gold World Medal, Documentary Category, 2018 New York Festival Awards TV & Film, New York, April 2018
CINEMA
• Allen Dizon, Best Actor for Bomba, 16^th Dhaka International Film Festival, Bangladesh, January 2018
• Ang Panahon ng Halimaw by Lav Diaz, Best Picture, Bildrausch Film Festival, Basel, Switzerland, June 2018, and Best Film, 58^th Festival Internacional de Cine Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, March, 2018
• Angeli Nicole Sanoy, Best Actress for Bomba, Imagine India International Film Festival, Madrid, Spain, May 2018
• Arjanmar Henrandez Rebeta, Best Director for Complicated Dance to the Wheel of Life, 7^th Hak-İş International Short Film Festival , Ankara, Turkey, November 2018
• Bagahe by Zig Dulay, Golden Cyclo Award, 2018 Vesoul International Film Festival for Asian Cinema, France, February 2018
• Call Her Ganda by PJ Raval, Grand Jury Prize, Outstanding North American Documentary, 34^th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Southern California, May 2018
• Christian Apolinario, Best International Actor for The Complicated Dance to the Wheel of Life, 2018 Focus on Ability Film Festival, Australia, September 2018
• Christian Bables, Best Actor for Signal Rock, Hanoi International Film Festival 2018, Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2018
• Jodilerks dela Cruz: Employee of the Month by Carlo Manatad, Best Southeast Asian Short Film, Southeast Asian Short Film Competition, 28^th Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore, December 2017
• Last Order by Joji Villanueva Alonzo, Best Short Film, 16^th Pyongyang International Film Festival, North Korea, September 2018
• Mikhail Red, Most Promising Talent Award for Neo Manila, 13^th Osaka Asian Film Festival, Osaka, Japan, March 2018
• Nabubulok by Crisanto Calvento, Best Film, 15^th Asian Film Festival , Bologna, Italy, July 2018
• Ngiti ng Nazareno by Louie Ignacio, Best Short Film, 41^st Lucas International Festival for Young Film Lovers, Frankfurt, Germany, September 2018
• Rhiza Ann Cenon Simbulan, Yakushi Pearl Award for Mr. and Mrs. Cruz, 13^th Osaka Asian Film Festival, Osaka, Japan, March 2018
• Shireen Seno, Best Scriptwriter Award for Nervous Translation, Asian New Talent Award competition of the 21^st Shanghai International Film Festival, Shanghai, China, September 2018
• Ian Veneracion, Best Actor for Ilawod, 38^th Oporto International Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2018
• Timothy Castillo, Best Actor for Neo Manila, 34^th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Southern California, May 2018
DANCE
• Halili-Cruz Dance Company for receiving nine Golds, three Silvers, and 10 Bronzes at the 20^th Asia Pacific Dance Competition, Victoria Theater, Singapore, September 2018
• Kenyo Street Family, Champion, World Supremacy Battlegrounds 2018 International Championship, Sydney, Australia, October 2018
• Poveda Enciende, Gold Champion, 14^th US Open World Championships (Dance Worlds), Orlando, Florida, April 2018
• Sidlakan Dance Company, Grand Champion, International Youth Fellowships’ (IYF) World, Cultural Dance Festival , South Korea, July 2018
• Assumption College Dance Troupe, Gold Champion, 14^th US Open World Championships (Dance Worlds), Orlando, Florida, April, 2018
DRAMATIC ARTS
• Clem Marnel Rama Burgos, Champion, 5^th International Competition of Arts and Culture, Yerevan, Armenia, July 2018
LITERARY ARTS
• Lawrence Ypil, 1^st Prize for Unpublished Manuscript for the Anglophone Poetry by Authors Asian Heritage, Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize, United State of America, August 2018
MUSIC
• Imusicapella, Grand Prix Varna, 39^th International May choir Competition, Varna, Bulgaria, May 2018; the Grand Prix, 57^th Concorso Internazionale di Canto Corale Seghizzi 2018; Gorizia, Italy, July 2018; 1^st Prize, 47^th Florilege Vocal de Tours; and, Grand Prix de La Ville de Tours, Debrezen, Hungary, June 2018
• Micah Jane Baybay, Grand Prix, Senior Division Category, Arpeggio International Singing Competition 2018, Malta, June 2018
• Manila Symphony Junior Orchestra, 1^st Prize, 12^th Summa Cum Laude International Music Festival, Viena, Austria, July, 2018
• University of the East Chorale, Grand Prix, 11^th Orientale Concentus International Choir Festival 2018, Singapore, August 2018
• Conchords, Grand Champion, A Cappella Championship 2018, Singapore, July 2018
• Ian Gabriel Torres Corpuz, 1^st Prize, Busan Choral Composition, South Korea, January 2018
• Alyssa Trisha Garcia, 1^st Prize, Junior Secondary Category, Singapore Lyric Opera–ASEAN Vocal Competition 2018, Singapore, October 2018
• Kammerchor Manila, Grand Prix, Leonardo Da Vinci International Choral Festival, Florence, Italy, July 2017
• Rag-O Duo, 1^st Prize, Wind Instrument Category, Princess Galyani Vadhana Ensemble Competition, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2018
• Astrafellas, Champion, Open Division Vocal Band International Category, Hong Kong International A Cappella Contest 2018, Hong Kong, November 2018
• Jay Kent, Champion, Euro Pop Contest 2018, Germany, December 2018
• UP Singing Ambassadors, Grand Prix, 66^th International Choral Competition Polifonico Guido d’Arezzo 2018, Arrezo, Italy, August 2018; 1^st Prize Habanera and Polyphony Category, Public Choice Award, 64^th International Habaneras and Polyphony Competition, Torrevieja, Spain, September 2018
• Cipriano Mercado de Guzman, Jr., 1^st Prize, Senior/Professional Open Category, 17^th Roma International Music Competition, Grand Prize Virtuoso at Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy, December 2018
• Rachel Gabreza, Grand Prix, Stars of the Albion Grand Prix 2018, 5^th International Performing Arts Festival & Competition, London, United Kingdom, February, 2018
• Tristan Ignacio, Best Conductor, 57^th Cocorso Internazionale di Canto Chorale Seghizzi 2018, Gorizia, Italy, July, 2018
• Los Cantates de Manila, 1^st Prize, Popular Choir Music, 15^th International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf 2017, Orlando, Florida, June, 2017
VISUAL ARTS
• Anthony Tario Austria, Grand Prize, Fujairah Photography Awards, United Arab Emirates, December 2018
• Danilo Victoriano, 1^st Prize, APEC Photo Contest 2018, Papua New Guinea, November 2018
• Donell Gumiran, Portrait Photographer of the Year, Asian Geographic Images of Asia Photography Competition 2019, Singapore, December 2018
• Edwin S. Loyola, 1^st Prize, 2018 International Day of Forests Photo Contest, Rome, Italy, July 2018
• Jesus Ramos Tejada, 1^st Place, Adult Category, 2018 SPECTRA Annual Art Carnival, Bahrain, December 2018
• Jeuz Sumangil, Grand Prize, Talent House’s Venom Alternative Poster Competition, California, October 2018
• Joey Cabarles Ramos II, 1^st Place, 4383 days of Childhood International Photo Contest, Russia, March 2018
• Jophel Botero Ybiosa, 1^st Place, Events Photographer of the year, Professional Events Category, Moscow International Foto Awards 2018, Russia, December 2018
• Ma. Angelica Tejada, 1^st Prize, AEGEAN Arts Children’s International Arts Competition 2018, Greece, July 2018; Grand Prize, Age category 8-12 years old, 2018 Draw Me Peace International Drawing Contest, Paris, France, January 2018
• Mario Bejagan Cardenas, Grand Winner, FIBA Photo Contest, Switzerland, August 2018 — Zsarlene B. Chua