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Here the list of the winners of the 39th Metro Manila Film Festival New Wave Student Short Film Special Jury Prize: #NoFilter, Mapua Institute of Technology New Wave Short Film Best Picture: Ang Paglisan Best Float Award: Boy Golden Youth Choice Award: Pagpag Best New Wave Film: Dukit by Armando Lao Animation Jury Prize: Ang Lalong ni Kulakog Animation Best Picture: Kaleh and Mbaki Best New Wave Film Director: Armando Lao for Dukit New Wave Best Actress: Agot Isidro New Wave Best Actor: Bor Ocampo, Willy Layug, Bambalito Lacap for Dukit New Wave Special Jury Prize: Mga Anino ng Kahapon New Wave Best Picture: Dukit Best Child Performer: Ryzza Mae Dizon, My Little Bossings Best Festival Sound Recording: 10,000 Hours Best Musical Score: 10,000 Hours Best Original Theme Song: My Little Bossings Best Makeup: Pagpag Best Visual Effects: 10,000 Hours Best Production Design: 10,000 Hours Best Editing: 10,000 Hours Best Cinematography: 10,000 Hours Gender Sensitive Awar...

Dukit (Carved in Wood), directed by Armando Y. Lao, an official entry to the New Wave Full Film Feature of the Metro Manila Film Festival 2013, premiered last December 18, 2013 at Glorietta 4 Cinemas, together with other New Wave entries. The story is inspired by the life of Wilfredo “Willy” Tadeo Tayug, awarded as 2002 Most Outstanding Kapampangan Award in Ecclesiastical Art (MOKA). The movie revolves around the life and struggles of “Waldo”, played by Willy Layug himself. The movie shows of the alternate current and childhood events in the life of Waldo who as a child was a papa’s boy and later on started hating his father after his mother’s death. His father left him and his sisters to be with his then mistress-turned-wife after their mother died. He had witnessed how his father would exchange letters with “Lucing” and how his mother would collect the letters and read them. And act as if nothing was wrong. After his mother died, he fullfilled his childhood promise and married ...

Plot: WALDO,  fated to become a celebrated sculptor in Betis, Pampanga, was born to a religious but empoverished parents. At an early age, Waldo suffered his first personal tragedy when his father abandoned the family for another woma. He suffered his second tragedy when his mother died. Waldo assumed the role of the bread winner to his three sisters and continued to do so even after getting married to his childhood sweetheart. The early years of marriage were times of struggle, especially financially. But sheer genius, industry, discipline and perhaps faith, all helped to turn the tide in Waldo’s favor. Through his eccelesiastical affiliation with the Catholic church, and notwithstanding his filial and marital responsibilities, Waldo rose literally from rags and obscurity to riches and fame. It took Waldo years and success to come to terms with his past and eventually learned to forgive his errant father, now old and married to his one-time mistress.