Ramon del Prado: My Perfect Man
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Hair Color: Black Born on May 1, 1982 in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines, moved to Manila at age 17. With his athletic build, 22-year-old Ramon del Prado looks more like a sportsman than an artist. But he is actually a promising filmmaker specializing in animated shorts. His passion for animation began when he was growing up in Dumaguete City. His dad, a farm manager, taught him how to create moving images by flipping the pages of a book. As the pages dropped at a fast clip, figures his dad drew could be seen moving on the lower right corner of each leaf. He said he was immediately fascinated by the images. “Like any kid, I was hooked on cartoons. I watched them on TV whenever I could but I was more interested in the way the characters moved and behaved,” he recalled. Del Prado says he inherited his talent from his artist mother. He started drawing a lot when he was attending high school in Silliman University. When it was time go to college he traveled to Manila and enrolled at the De La Salle University (DLSU). He chose to major in Communication Arts, which includes filmmaking in its curriculum. For his thesis, he came up with an animated short which he dubbed Egg, a creative reinvention of the familiar “Ugly Duckling” tale; only this time the lead character is a chicken egg. The egg gets mixed up in a balut factory where he is ostracized by the balut eggs who start “egging on him,” claiming that his different appearance is the result of a disease. Egg was impressive enough to win the Outstanding Thesis Award from De La Salle in 2003. It also won other accolades, including First Place at the 5th UP Video and Film Awards and the Grand Jury/ Best Picture award from the UP Indeo Film Festival. Egg was also a finalist at the Catholic Mass Media Awards and the Gawad CCP for Best Short Film. The film was eventually aired on the GMA Network as part of its “Pinoy Animé” series. from abs-cbnnews.com |
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