Anthony Taberna Joins AMBS Group's ALLTV

After having a really good showing and recovery year with Taberna Group of Companies and Outbox Media Powerhouse Corporation, Broadcaster, Radio Commentator and YouTuber Anthony Taberna is taking another step with his recent move to Villar owned Advanced Media Broadcasting System's ALLTV. The new player just recently signed him last September 6th at the Mella Hotel in Las Pinas City, known hometown of the Villars.

The event was witnessed by AMBS President Maribeth Tolentino, Atty. TJ Tolentino (AMBS General Counsel), Maryknoll Zamora the current AMBS CFO and Ms. Rossel Taberna (his wife and Outbox Media Powerhouse Corporation head honcho). Surely, his talent will be put into good use for news and current affairs shows or public service programs that are planned for and by ALLTV.

Tolentino says "Ka Tunying will certainly be a welcome addition to our ALLTV family. Aside from the shows with current events, news programs, we plan to include him in entertaining productions to serve viewers of ALLTV.

Mr. Taberna says "I'd like to thank the AMBS group for making me part of your family. I thank you for your trust, we've been talking about what we could offer programming, and my wife told me I'm too young to leave the TV industry. I'll do what I can to be a worthy part of ALLTV and do what I can on my 30th year in the industry."

There will be more personalities to be announced in the coming days.

EMILIO ROSO in Manila for Vision Of The Bible

Emilio Roso is in the country to share the good news from his spiritual journey. He's a director, producer, actor and author based in Hollywood in the US. This time, he's taking you to a visual and audio spectacle of the Holy Bible through an app called Vision Of The Bible.

This one takes those heartwarming stories, teachings, various chapters and verses be accompanied with audio and video effects that make you feel a different experience, especially if you haven't been to Israel or different sites where it all happened. Roso feels everyone deserves to see where these stories happened and help connect the words to reality, something he is glad to share with Filipinos.

He thought about it while on a trip in the US, and this move to Manila beckons localizing the app's content so it would be adept to subscribers from the country, which he did. The quality of videos are courtesy of over 30 of the world's top cinematographers set to follow their footsteps, and tell their stories through their lens and more. The app also features the voice of award winning Rendy Towes and a multitude of voice actors interpreted in English and Spanish. Take the opportunity to download the app today which is available at Google Play or the App Store. See how you can become part of the journey to the holy land without leaving the Philippines today!

Saving Dying Dialects: Lessons from HULAGWAY

I took the lovely trip to Cinema 76 at Anonas in Quezon City to see Director Alvin Yapan's latest work called HULAGWAY: Dokyumentaryo ng mga Wika at Kulturang Filipino (A documentary of Filipino Language and Culture) a few days ago. Dr. Yapan was tapped by the National Commitee on Language amd Translation under the offices of NCCA (The National Comission for the Culture and the Arts) to direct this film. 

Hulagway means "a portrait" and this film lengthily has taken a look at the person, how one lives, how they communicate with their peers or the community. There are also a lot of metaphorical representation of their struggles, even if they're literally not working with a script, the conversations was molded off how language was used as a tool to enrich lives with stories, songs and poems deeply rooted in culture. 

 

Needless to say, he's a genius when it comes to really complex artsy topics like these and interpreting it for cinema must have been a tall task. His treatment in telling this one is like a documentary. He anchors it with two characters Consuelo (played by Sue Prado) and Robert (which is played by Kalil Almonte). They took the long hard trek to far flung communities in the eastern side of Isabela (up north) and islands off Palawan. 

Imagine, they started this in 2018 and had to work together with only 15 other crew carrying with them loads of equipment to capture unadulterated views, communities and the few men and women who still have a grasp of the dying languages Dupaninan Agta and Tandulanen Tagbanua. This is officially the most difficult film Alvin Yapan has ever made, he made mention of this during the talk we had after the screening. Initially, they had planned to include 6/7 of them (dialects/languages) but the material was too precious to cut off the block. It was also a little too tedious as it involved time consuming research, with little information from various universities (mostly from outside the country) who have conducted studies about them in previous years, they roughed the process of filming and took on talking to the few descendants left who still have a grasp of the language. My favorite scene was the boat traversing a line of mangroves in Palawan, they talked about that on the video.

 

Here's the press conference in two parts where they explained the film and the cause of saving the dialects from these two regions.

During the latter part of the press conference I asked about what concrete plans they have about saving the dying dialect, and they replied that this is just the first step, to become aware, educated, and acknowledge that there is something precious to save. 

The plan is to also have this film be viewed by educational institutions to not just prove its existence, but to formulate a way to find ways to have people teach these dialects and pass on to the next generation. To not lose their identity as IP, and celebrate their uniqueness, their differences, which makes them cool. If this sparks efforts to do so not just from the government, but the citizens of this country, then this film made its mark. Make sure to coordinate with NCCA if you want your school to be part of the film's tour in the coming months. There's more languages/dialects to save in the country, and telling their story is essential.

Make sure to watch it. It'll be life changing!

Villar Group's AMBS Prepares Broadcast Operations

Villar's Advanced Media Broadcasting System who now holds Channel 2's frequency has made significant moves this month. September 1st marks the day of two Sorianos joining the network's lineup of stars. Host, singer and actress Toni Gonzaga and her husband Director Paul Soriano formalized their ties with the new channel.

The event was witnessed by AMBS President Maribeth Tolentino, Manuel Paolo Villar of Prime Asset Ventures together with other celebrity guests at Mella Hotel in Las Piñas City. Villar says "We are reiterating our commitment to elevate TV viewing for pinoys starting with quality programs and even more exciting TV shows bringing entertainment to Filipino homes."

Ms. Tolentino added "We are ready to give our viewers worthy shows to look forward to. We are ecstatic about our plans with Toni Gonzaga and Paul Soriano." This includes a more in depth talk show which they say Toni will be hosting (probably much like Toni Talks which she does on YT but done on TV).

This is the Villar Group's foray into the broadcast industry. They have other businesses in housing, retail and utilities. They also have signed Willie Revillame who's doing Wowowin in the same station. This is just the tip of the iceberg, stand by for more information about talent acquisitions in the next few weeks. Heard they will also be calling it ALL TV as seen on some Wowowin socials as of publishing.