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Film award for young Filipino addressing bullying

filipino film awardPlan’s media training for young people has helped a young Filipino filmmaker win the Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Chinh India Kids Film Festival in New Delhi. The festival features an all-children jury from countries including India, Denmark, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Joseph's thirty-second public service video, Mangyan, features a high school student who is ostracised and shunned for her skin and looks. The film ends with the protagonist emerging unscathed from the discrimination because she is able to avenge herself academically. 17-year-old Joseph, a student from Occidental Mindoro, was trained by an Anak TV/ Plan partnership in media literacy, as part of the Young Hearts international campaign to highlight safety in schools.

 
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