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!
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