Multi-awarded film director, Romm Burlat was chosen by Silliman University to be its Inspirational Guest Speaker of the Seniors Day of the Graduating Class 2020,
Burlat is an alumnus of the first American University in the Philippines. He graduated Business Administration Management in 1983. As a student, Direk Romm was a very active leader. He was an Assemblyman of Silliman's Student Government. He was a member of the SU Dance Troupe and Campus Choristers. Likewise, he was a news editor of the Honors Course Gazette and Weekly Sillimanian (the official student publication of the university). Moreover, he was a member of the Luce Auditorium Corps of Ushers and Usherettes. Burlat was his college representative in the inter-department oratorical contest and a member of the Biz-Ad Cheering Team which has never been defeated for four straight years. The Biz-Ad winning cheering team consists of Helen Araneta, Gemgem Villegas, Erwin Ramos, Lona Valdegamo and Burlat. For the university-wide dance competition, Burlat with Eunice Gammad won the Grand Prize. Direk Romm was a Class Honors and was awarded the Outstanding Silliman Student-Talent Award in 1982. Burlat was also President of the Zeta Phi Sigma Fraternity/Sorority in 1981.
When interviewed, Direk Romm has been very excited from the time he read the invitation. He wants to go back to his Alma Mater, this time as a guest speaker.
It can be recalled that Burlat recently won as Best Director in the 16th We Care International Film Festival in New Delhi, India prompting the Film Development Council of the Philippines to honor him in the elite circle as Film Ambassador 2020.
To date, Direk Romm has directed 21 films consisting of short, feature and full-length films. He has won 8 Best Director awards, 1 Best Actor award, 1 Best Supporting Actor award, 1 Best Talent Manager award, 7 international recognition including Best TV Talk Show Host. Six of his films were finalists in the international film festival. His Beki't Ako (an LGBTQ film) was finalist at the ShanghaiPRIDE International Film Festival in Shanghai, China, TQU Queer Film Festival in Berlin, Germany and Playa del Carmen Film Festival in Mexico. His movie about a man's descent to madness, Cuckoo, was finalist at the Festival Internacional de Cinema da Figueira da Foz in Portugal. Three of his films namely Balikuko, Ama Ka Ng Anak Mo and Sindi were finalists at the Lift-Off Film Festival in London, England and his Akay and Ama Ka Ng Anak Mo were finalists at the 16th We Care International Film Festival.
In 2018, Romm Burlat was named one of the Outstanding Men and Women of the Philippines. Next month, he will be honored as Philippine Faces of Success along with Mayor Vico Sotto, Mayor Isko Moreno and some popular celebrities.
On international cruise ships, Romm Burlat holds the record as the first Filipino Cruise Director. He was also picked after a rigid screening as one of the Five Filipinos who was sent to Texas, USA as a Philippine Delegate to the Rotary International. The Philippine government also chose him as one of the Ambassadors of Goodwill to Southeast Asia and Japan via the Japanese SSEAYP program.
Direk Romm, who has appeared in the cover of two publications of Manila Bulletin namely Bisaya and Liwayway magazines and cover of Showbiz Radar magazine, is filming three movies in the next three months. To wit: And I Loved Her, a romantic comedy with Teresa Loyzaga, Rez Cortez, Keanna Reeves, Richard Quan, Neil Perez, Faye Tangonan, Zairah Tangonan and Bidaman Ron Macapagal. He is also scheduled to shoot a Visayan horror film entitled Ban-Uk and a film about women empowerment, Venus In My Mind.
Catch Direk Romm as inspirational speaker of the Silliman University Graduating Class 2020 on March 19th at the Luce Auditorium, Silliman University, Dumaguete City.
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