Pinarangalan ng National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) ang 26 na mga Pilipinong nagpamalas ng natatanging talento sa sining sa 15th Ani ng Dangal 2024.
Ito’y kasabay na rin ng pagdiriwang ng National Arts Month ngayong Pebrero.
Ang mga awardees ay kinilala sa ibang bansa sa larangan ng arkitektura, pelikula, sayaw, dramatic art, literary art, musika, visual art, folk art at broadcast art.
1 architecture and allied arts:
LPPA Design Group/L.P. Pariñas & Associates.
7 Cinema:
– Sam Manacsa, best director for “Cross My Heart and Hope to Die” – 34th Singapore International Film Festival 2023
six films:
– “The River That Never Ends” directed by JT Trinidad, best Asian short film at the 34th Singapore International Film Festival in 2023;
– “HIT” directed by Stephen Lopez, Blencong Award at the 18th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2023 and best film at the 20th Vienna Shorts-International Short Film Festival in Vienna, Australia in June 2023;
– “Bold Eagle” directed by Whammy Alcazaren, best short film prize at the 27th Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada in July 2023;
– “When You Left Me On That Boulevard” directed by Kayla Abuda Galang, short film grand jury prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in Utah;
– “Did it Hurt?” directed by Nathan Carreon Lim, best fiction short film at the 53rd Tampere Film Festival in Finland in March 2023
– “Blue Room” directed by Ma-an Asuncion-Dagñalan, best foreign film at the 19th edition of LA Femme International Film Festival in Los Angeles, California in October 2023
9 dance:
– La Salle Filipiniana Dance Company, first place in different categories at the International Dance Organization World Dance Festival 2023 in South Korea in August 2023;
– Legit Status, MegaCrewDivision Gold Medalist and World Champion at the 2023 World Hip Hop Dance Championship in US in August 2023;
– HQ Dance Collective, gold medalist in the adult division at the World Hip Hop Dance Championship 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona in August 2023;
– Rhea Marquez, gold medalist in the adults combi class 2 Latin and combi freestyle class showdance Latin at the 2023 World Para Dance Sport Championships in Genova, Italy inNovember 2023
– Julius Jun Obero, gold medalist in single men’s adults conventional class 2 St+Lat, adults freestyle class 2 showdance, adults duo class 2 Latin, adults combi class 2 Latin and combi freestyle class showdance Latin at the 2023 World Para Dance Sport Championships in Genova, Italy in November 2023
– Edelyn de Asis, gold medalist in women’s adults freestyle class 2 show dance, solo women’s junior class 1+2 St+Lat, adults duo freestyle class 2 showdance, adults duo class 2 Latin at the Genoa 2023 World Para Dance Sport Championships in Italy in November 2023;
– Folk Jumpers,the champions in the monster crew division at the 2023 World Supremacy Battlegrounds in Australia in August 2023 and Kristel de Catalina, the professional pole champion and overall champion at the Viva Circus Awards 2023 in Malaysia on July 23, 2023.
– Princess Arvinah Caballero, 1st place in teen (15 under) hip hop solo category; Paula Mariel Evangelio, 1st place in senior (17 under) hip hop solo category;
– Katherine Marie Furugganan, Alexa Denise Vicencio, and Gia Simone Garin, 1st place in senior (17 under) jazz trio category;
– and Phoemela Angela Esluzar and Angela Marie Lopez, 1st place in open lyrical duo category at the Nuvo Dance Convention 2023 in Utah, US and 2023 Asia Pacific Dance Competition.
Literary arts:
– Jesus Insilada, screenwriter of the best film “Sa Paglupad ka Banog” (The Flight of Banog) at the 13h Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival in Malaysia in September 2023.
4 Music:
– De La Salle University Chorale, Grand Prix at the Busan Chorale Festival and Competition in South Korea in October 2023 with their conductor, Jose Emmanuel Aquino, who won best conductor in the same competition;
– Kammerchor Manila, Pavarotti Trophy at the Choir of the World competition at Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in United Kingdom in July 2023 and Absolute Winner at the 69th International Choral Contest Habaneras and Polyphony Torrevieja 2023 in Spain in July 2023 with their conductor Anthony Villanueva, who won best conductor at the 69th International Choral Contest Habaneras and Polyphony Torrevieja in 2023 in Spain in July 2023.
– Young Voices of the Philippines, champion at the 12th Golden Gate International Choral Festival in San Francisco
– Jannina Eliana Peña, who won first prize at the Big Arts Classical Music Scholarship in the US in April 2022.
2 visual arts:
– Albert Emir Reyes, first prize winner in the 18 to 15 category at the 30th Edition of the International Fine Arts Competition 2023 in France
– Domcar Calinawan Lagto, grand winner at the Huawei XMAGE Awards in China.
Nagsilbi namang panauhing pandangal si Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr., sa naturang event.
Ayon sa pangulo, panahon na aniya na kilalanin at parangalan ang mga Filipino artist dahil sa pagkilalang ibinibigay nito sa bansa.
Dagdag pa ng pangulo na hindi mauubusan ng talento ang Pilipinas dahil maraming mga Pilipinong talentado sa iba’t ibang larangan kung kaya’t marapat lamang na suportahan at kilalanin sila ng gobyerno.
