PH Consulate General in Toronto Meets with Toronto Film School for Film Study Program 

Philippine Consul General to Toronto Orontes V. Castro (second from right), with Toronto Film School Vice-President Walter Lee (center), Consul Edwin Gil Mendoza (rightmost), and Senior Trade Commissioner Maria Roseni M. Alvero (seconf from left) at the Philippine Consulate General in Toronto. (Toronto PCG photo)

TORONTO 24 March 2020 – Philippine Consul General to Toronto Orontes V. Castro received Toronto Film School Vice-President Walter Lee in Philippine Consulate General in Toronto on 22 March 2020. 

Consul Edwin Gil Mendoza and Trade Office-Toronto Senior Trade Commissioner Maria Roseni M. Alvero were also present in the meeting. 

Vice President Lee discussed the study program arranged by the Toronto Film School (TFS) and the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), with assistance from the Toronto Trade Office. The study program would allow students from the Philippines to study at the Toronto Film School in Toronto, Ontario starting in October 2020.

The first group of students will have scholarships supported by TFS, FDCP, and some private companies in the Philippines and Canada.

Consul General Castro emphasized that there are many young Filipinos with excellent filmmaking skills across the Philippines and recommended that TFS and FDCP also consider tapping students from universities in Visayas and Mindanao.

The study program is an outcome of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the TFS and the FDCP signed on 23 September 2019.  During the meeting, the Consulate General also notarized the said MOU. END

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