Now entering its
second season, ANC's weekly documentary Storyline offers an
alternative news source from a news channel that seeks to provide more than
just reportage. It is revolutionary in
its expansion of just what constitutes a news story.
"The stories told follow the same rigorous standard for truth as daily news reports, but they are stories that are not ordinarily told by the people who lived through them," said opinion writer Patricia Evangelista, who is the executive producer of the show.
Evangelista teams up with independent filmmaker Paolo Villaluna (Selda, Ilusyon) to bring you stories that aren't quite happily-ever-after but underline the strength of human spirit every Friday in Storyline.
For the launch of its second season, Storyline will have a special premiere and screening of its six episodes from its first season at the Robinsons Galleria on Thursday, October 9, at 9:30 pm.
These include a love story of a
cancer-stricken wife, tourist guide Carlos Celdran, missing farmer leader Jonas
Burgos, the children with cleft lips, a young firefighter electrocuted while on
duty, and ordinary folks' views on the country's state of the nation.
For the premiere of its second season, Storyline
offers the best of season one, and a glimpse of what is to come: "Walk This
Way," Carlos Celdran / "Nasaan Si Jonas," Edith Burgos / "One Smile at a Time,"
Bobby Manzano / "Its Never Too Late," Marissa and Danny Narida / "Sunshine,"
Sunshine Cablayan / "Juan Dela Cruz," Adonis Dela Cruz.
Created by a team of young, independent filmmakers, the same team that brought the top-rating documentary special Kidnap to ABS-CBN, Storyline brings the language of cinema and literature to the television and does not stop at sound bites.
"It is the only Philippine news show without a host; it allows the story to unfold through the eyes of the storyteller," said Villaluna.
Each show has three independent stories tied together by a single theme: three narratives, three voices, one storyline.
Storyline is about people, about hope, about the heights of the human spirit. It is people, after all, and their stories, that is what television is all about. Catch a new story each week in its second season starting October 10, and every Friday at 6 PM with replays at 11 pm and Sundays at 3 pm on ANC (SkyCable channel 27).
