𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞

Congratulations, 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨 for your film 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐧, which won 2nd Best Film in Indie-Siyensya, the first science filmmaking competition organized by DOST’s Science Education Institute “to bring science closer to the youth and the general public through film.”

To the Constantino Foundation, your film Damayan reflects very much the quality and grace of your body of work – a veritable cosmos that encourages Filipinos to see, smell, touch, hear, and taste the fragile abundance we must learn to appreciate better and protect.

From seeds to tiny creatures, from blooms to edible plants and towering majestic trees, your work continues to utilize language that seeds and sustains informed conversation admist the pestilence of disinformation and the slop of artificial intelligence.

Damayan reminds us to treat as treasure what is native to our land. It shows how our nation can thrive. It is a perfect representation of your purpose. It shows the role of what we often neglect in the undergrowth of fields and forests, mycelial networks that allow entire ecosystems to communicate and protect one another and thus to flourish as one.

Instead of talking down to your viewers and offering simplistic narratives or junk science, your body of work demonstrates what happens when art works with science and when science wields art. Your stories are your craft, and they harness complexity through conversations that help trigger one of the most important yet neglected among Filipino superpowers today: a sense of curiosity.

Watch Damayan and share the gift of abundance!