Direk Romm Burlat wins his 5th international Best Actor award at the CKF International Film Festival in the United Kingdom

There's no stopping for this maverick director. Just two days after he won Best Director at the Sweden Film Awards, Direk Romm Burlat won another international Best Actor award. He was declared Best Foreign Actor at the CKF International Film Festival in the United Kingdom. Burlat won for his portrayal as the weird killing father in the horror drama suspense thriller movie, Covered Candor (Tutop).

This is Direk Romm's 5th Best Actor award from international film festivals. Locally, he won one Best Actor award for Set Alight (Sindi) in the Gawad Filipino awards. April this year, Burlat won his first international Best Actor award from the Actors Awards Los Angeles in California,USA. It was followed by Kosice International Film Festival in Slovak Republic. He was also declared Best Actor at the Hollywood Blood Horror Festival in California. His 4th Best Actor award came from the Tagore International Film Festival in India.

Some call him Pandemic director by virtue of the influx of international awards despite the Covid crisis. Burlat just laughed the label off.

To-date, Burlat has won 9 international awards: 5 for Best Actor, 2 for Best Director, 1 for Best Supporting Actor and 1 for Best Producer. His films, Homecoming (Mammangi) won Best Short Film at the Eurasia International Film Festival in Moscow, Russia while his Covered Candor (Tutop) won Best Horror Feature Film at the Hollywood Blood Horror Festival, Istanbul Film Awards and Tagore International Film Festival.

"This is more than what I asked for. I was overjoyed by the continuous wins from different film festivals in the world. I am a bit weary that the people will expect more from me after this .But I am ready to accept more challenging roles aside from directing some of them", Burlat said.

Direk Romm is still looking forward to other international film festivals where he also got nominations like the Kalakari International Film Festival, Roshani International Film Festival and the Nawada International Film Festival, all in India. 

All the best, Direk Romm and congratulations!

Philippine Entry to Sweden Film Awards win Best Director for Romm Burlat and Best Actor for Ron Macapagal

The Philippine entry, "Mammangi" with an international title, "Homecoming" won the Best Director award for Romm Burlat and Best Actor award for Ron Macapagal at the Sweden International Film Awards in Stockholm, Sweden. It was a hotly-contested festival with more than 3,000 entries worldwide.The award is the second international Best Director win for Burlat who won Best Director last year in the 16th We Care International Film Festival in India for another film, "Father of Your Son (Ama Ka Ng Anak Mo)". Likewise, it is the third international Best Actor award for Macapagal. Earlier this year, he won Best Actor Honorable Mention  for "Cuckoo" at the Oniros Film Festival in Italy. It was followed by another Best Actor award for "Covered Candor" at the Druk International Film Festival in Bhutan.2020 proves to be the year of the manager-talent tandem. Direk Romm ,as he is fondly called, is the manager of Ron for four years now. The former molded the latter to become a very good actor. In school in Saudi Arabia,  Macapagal already showed signs that he would become an actor someday since he won some accolades while acting in theatre in high school. It was further honed when he flew to the Philippines for his college degree. His first film, "Cuckoo" already gave him local and international awards. It was the Philippine entry last year to the Festival Internacional de Cinema da Figueria da Foz in Portugal.Burlat, on the other hand, already won 8 Best Director awards in local festivals, As an actor, Direk Romm ,so far, has won 1 Best Actor award from Gawad Filipino and 4 Best  Actor Awards in international film festivals like Actors Awards in Los Angeles, California; Kosice International Film Festival in Slovak Republic; Hollywood Blood Horror Film Festival in California and the Tagore International Film Festival in India. He also won Best Supporting Actor award at the Oniros Film Awards in Italy.Both Burlat and Macapagal are doing the movie, "Hesus", soon. Ron will play the title role of Hesus, a manic depressive man who fights no one but himself. Burlat will be directing the film with Direk Marvin Gabas and Direk Paola Villena who are both doing the script of the movie. The film, "Homecoming" is also Macapagal 's baptism of fire as Asst Director to Burlat. For this reason, Ron will direct an upcoming movie billed "Bata Pa Si Abel". On the other hand, both of them will be finishing the scenes of "Bakit Nasa Huli Ang Simula" and "And I Loved Her" with Burlat as the director and Macapagal as the actor.Congratulations Direk Romm and Ron!

 

Direk Romm Burlat wins a full PhD scholarship from Einstein Universite de London in the United Kingdom

 

Despite the pandemic, the career of Direk Romm Burlat is going great guns in 2020. After winning 4 international Best Actor awards, 1 international Best Supporting Actor award and an international Best Producer award plus two of his films namely "Homecoming (Mammangi)"and "Covered Candor (Tutop) "got 4 Best Film awards from international film festivals, Burlat was just awarded a full scholarship in Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the prestigious Einstein Universite de London in London, England. The 72,000-pound scholarship will start this week until he finishes his PhD degree. " I am still in Cloud 9 right now. This is another milestone in my career. Long have I planned to go back to school to upgrade my credentials but time won't warrant.  My work experiences plus my travel to several countries paved the way to this scholarship. I also underwent a series of interviews from the university professors. I am so honored upon hearing that out of every 1,000 applicants, the university will only grant one scholarship." Burlat quips.

Burlat finished his bachelor's degree from the first American university in the Philippines, Silliman University through the National State Scholarship program . He was one of the Five (5) Filipinos who was sent to Texas, USA for a Group Study Exchange sponsored by the Rotary International. Prior to that, Direk Romm was one of the 35 Filipinos who were picked by the Philippine government as Ambassador of Goodwill to Southeast Asia and Japan via the SSEAYP program of the Japanese government.  Burlat holds the record as the first Filipino Cruise Director. Due to his vast experiences, Direk Romm was granted a credit transfer of International MBA Degree from Einstein Business School of Management under Accreditation for Prior Experiential Learning in compliance with UK Law and that he can proceed to take the Doctorate of Philosophy program. 

At the start of 2020, Direk Romm won Best Director from the Christian Film Festival in February. This was followed by a Best Supporting Actor award from Oniros Film Awards in Italy. After which, awards came one after the other. He was named Best Actor in 4 award-giving bodies namely the Actors Awards in Los Angeles, California, Kosice International Film Festival in Slovak Republic, Hollywood Blood Horror Festival in California and the Tagore International Film Festival in India. He is still a nominee in a few more film festivals this month and September.

Burlat is scheduled to shoot the remaining scenes of his two full-length films, "And I Loved Her" and "Bakit Nasa Huli Ang Simula" and will hopefully start a movie with the Diamond Star Maricel Soriano. On TV, he now has two shows on GlobalTV namely "Direk To The Point" every Thursday and "Lies, Camera Action" every Friday. Burlat is getting ready for his two other shows at the Manila Times TV: the celebrity talk show, "Of Critics & Critiques" and the much-awaited "It's Entertainment".