Miss Earth 2016 Candidates at the Oakwood Premier Joy~Nostalg Center Manila

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Voted as the 2016 World Travel Awards Winner for Philippines' Leading Serviced Apartments, the Oakwood Premier Joy~Nostalg Center Manila, is also a proud venue and home for the Miss Earth 2016 candidates for several activities including a Meet & Greet with the press, and the long gown competition.

The management of the hotel gave a few words to formally welcome the beauty queens coming from the different countries.

Aside from the comfortable beds in the stately and fully-furnished suites, the Miss Earth 2016 candidates enjoyed the many amenities of the hotel including invigorating dips in their eco-friendly indoor pool and the adjacent Jacuzzi. They were able to swim in the chemical-free salt water lap pool with soothing underwater music for their ears. 

The Nostalgia Dining Lounge's breakfast buffet has surely serve as a great start for the beauty queens' day! But the girls enjoyed the complete gym equipment at the Fitness Center by Oakwood to remain fit, flexible and fab.

Above is just one of the many videos we took from the Meet & Greet with the Miss Earth candidates. You may check them out at the official YouTube channel at http://www.YouTube.com/user/wazzuppilipinas

Below are just some of the photos of the Miss Earth candidates that we took during the Meet & Greet event held on October 10, 2016.

More photos are available at the official Facebook fan page of Wazzup Pilipinas at http://www.Facebook.com/wazzuppilipinas

Solo photos of Miss Earth 2016 candidates courtesy of our partner photographer Collin Sarthou Yap

Synergy 2016 to Focus on the Development of Smart Communities

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This four-day academic convention has always been a venue of sharing ideas for those in the field of Electrical and Electronics Engineering to explore related career paths to help them build and develop the nation. On its fifth year, Synergy encourages the students to develop and promote technological innovations for safer and smarter communities.

This November 8-11 2016, Synergy would be having its five main events; TECHNO TALK, a discussion including topics on security and information and INGENIOUS IDEAS, a problem-solving competition involving the participants and panel, REVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS, a competition with autonomous robots, DYNAMIC DISCOURSE, an immersive company tour, and CORPORATE CONNECTION, the culminating event of SYNERGY. The first two events would occur in the first day (November 8) and the following days (November 9-11) would have the aforementioned events respectively.

University of the Philippines Engineering Radio Guild has always aimed to bring together the EEE student body for the betterment of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering industry. Synergy is one of the mediums which the organization uses to achieve this goal. Synergy will potentially increase the quality of Engineers and Developed technologies. Synergy would act as a basin for EEE students to output their accumulated knowledge and skill for the improvement of the country’s tomorrow.

The organization began when Electrical Engineers and some radio enthusiasts led by Solon Matthew Dakis pushed towards acquiring a license to put up a radio station. UP ERG found both a name and home in the UP Campus in the year 1935.

To learn more, visit up-erg.org, or e-mail us at execom@up-erg.org

Filipino Short Film “Caretaker” Wins in Egypt

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The short film “Caretaker,” directed by advocacy filmmaker Seymour Barros Sanchez and produced by Red Room Media Productions, recently won second place in the short fiction category of the sixth CAM International Festival for Short Films in Cairo, Egypt.

The film, which is co-written by Kristine Camille Sulit and Sanchez, is about a newly hired custodian of a vacation house who finds the gruesome conclusion of a fraternity’s initiation rites too much to handle. Rolando Inocencio plays the title role with John Paul Duray, Raymond Rinoza, Jomari Angeles, Luis Ruiz, Ryan Sy, Vince Rillon and Ron Nacianceno providing support.

The film festival, organized annually by the Egyptian Arab Society for Culture, Media and Arts, aims to promote cinema as a means of combating ignorance, terrorism and poverty.

“Plankton” by Russian filmmaker Giovana Olmos edged “Caretaker” for the top prize in the short fiction category while “Jasmenco” by Syrian director Wathec Salman placed third. “The Daughters of Mother India” by Indian filmmaker Vibha Bakshi topped the documentary category while “Sintel” by American animator Colin Levy, “Bear Story” by Gabriel Osorio Vargas of Chile and “Empsillnes” by Jakub Grygier of Poland led the entries in the animation category. The comedic film “Ave Maria” by British-Palestinian director Basil Khalil bagged the Jury Prize. Meanwhile, Morocco’s entry “Houkak” directed by Younes Yousfi was hailed Best Arabic Film.

Arab Film TV School director and cinematographer Dr. Mona El Sabban headed the CAM film festival jury comprised of members Dr. Nagwa Mahrous and actress Nada Bassiouny from Egypt, film critic Yusuf Shayeb from Palestine and Dr. Bou Shoaib El Masoudi from Morocco.

Jahzeel Abihail Cruz, Third Secretary and Vice Consul of the Embassy of the Philippines in Cairo, received the second prize trophy and certificate from CAM film festival director and chairman Alaa Nasr on behalf of the “Caretaker” team during the awarding ceremonies last October 13.

“Caretaker” has also been selected as one of the ten finalists in the Active Vista International Human Rights Film Festival short film competition currently being organized by the DAKILA artist collective. The film previously won the Golden Philippine Eagle award and Best Actor trophy for Inocencio at the third Singkuwento International Film Festival co-organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts last February. It was also shown at the 22nd annual Filipino International Cine Festival (FACINE) at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, California and the International Film Festival Manhattan at the Producers Club in New York City. 

Sanchez is a lecturer at the Digital Filmmaking department of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts, the Department of Communication of Far Eastern University and the Arts and Education program of the College of the Holy Spirit-Manila. He also currently serves as adviser of the FEU Film Society. Apart from graduating from Brillante Mendoza’s first directing class, he is also a graduate of Ricky Lee’s 14th scriptwriting workshop and a member of Writers Studio. He previously worked as a producer for CNN Philippines, Solar News and TV5.