Sheron D.

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Sheron Dayoc is director/producer who shifts from Fiction/non-fiction storytelling to TV Commercial directing. His notable films are HALAW/Ways of the Sea (NETPAC Jury -2011 Berlinale, NETPAC Award – APSA 2011, Cinemalaya 2010 Best film), The Crescent Rising (Best Documentary – Busan IFF 2011, Best Documentary - Gawad Urian) and Women of the Weeping River, which won numerous local and international awards. As for Advertising, his most notable work includes 2018 VICKS’s “Touch of Care” of Publicis One, Singapore that ranked by campaigns as of the top adverts for 2018. The same ad won awards in Spikes Asia and Kidlat awards (Philippine Advertising Awards) Sheron founded Southern Lantern Studios, a creative think tank and production company for multimedia short and long film and video content for various platform. He is an alumnus of the Asian Film Academy in Busan, Korea (2008 Busan International Film festival) and NEXT Master Class of the 2010 Tokyo Filmex.   He honed his craft by producing, directing, and writing several documentaries, including his Asian Pitch 2008 (MediaCorp/NHK Japan) “A Weaver's Tale” which won a Certificate of Creative Excellence at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival 2010. He is the first Filipino to be granted a project by the Asian Pitch.   He recently completed his new film “WOMEN OF THE WEEPING RIVER” (formerly titled “SATRA”), which won best film at the Qcinema International Film Festival (Philippines). The film is one of six film projects selected for the June 2011 Sundance Scriptwriting Lab in Utah. The project is a recipient of script development fund from Asian Cinema Fund and Hubert bals fund. The film was selected at Asian Project Market, Sorfond pitching forum in Norway and Ties That Bind – EAVE for 2014.   His full length documentary feature “ THE CRESCENT RISING ” won best documentary at the 2016 Busan International Film festival. Locally it won best documentary film both for 2016 Gawad Urian (Critics Award) and at the 2015 Qcinema International Film Festival.   HALAW (WAYS OF THE SEA), his debut feature-length film, won best Film, Director, Actor, and Editing at the Philippines’ 2010 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. He produced, wrote, and directed it. The film won the Special Mention, NETPAC at the 2011 Berlin IFF, Best Picture at the 2011 New York Hell’s Kitchen IFF, and the NETPAC Development Prize at the 2011 Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia. It has been invited to screen and compete at some two-dozen film festivals in Asia, Europe, US, South America, and Australia.   Sheron is currently in development of his next feature film projects for local and international co-productions.

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