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".