Press Release

TORONTO FILM SCHOOL VICE-PRESIDENT VISITS PCG TORONTO

2020-04-06

PR No. 21-2020

22 March 2020, Toronto – Mr. Walter Lee, Vice-President of Toronto Film School, visited PCG Toronto and met with Consul General Orontes V. Castro. Consul Edwin Gil Mendoza and Trade Office-Toronto Senior Trade Commissioner Maria Roseni M. Alvero were also present in the meeting.

Mr. Lee discussed the study program that the Toronto Film School (TFS) has arranged with the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), with assistance from the Toronto Trade Office, which would allow students from the Philippines to study at the Toronto Film School in Toronto, Ontario starting in October this year. The first group of students will have scholarships supported by TFS, FDCP and some private companies in the Philippines and Canada. Consul General Castro mentioned that there are many young Filipinos with excellent filmmaking skills all around the Philippines and he recommended that TFS and FDCP also consider tapping students in universities from the Visayan and Mindanao regions.

The study program is an outcome of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Toronto Film School and the Film Development Council of the PH signed on 23 September 2019. During the meeting, the Consulate General also notarized the said MoU.-END

Consul General Orontes V. Castro (2nd from R), with Mr. Walter Lee, Vice-President of Toronto Film School©, Consul Edwin Gil Mendoza (1st from R), and Senior Trade Commissioner Maria Roseni M. Alvero (2nd from L)
at the PCG Toronto Conference Room.

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