The EDSA Stories Video Grant Initiative EDSA Mo, EDSA Ko! encourages Filipinos, especially the young generation, to find a place for history in the present. Not all of us were at the EDSA People Power, EDSA Dos or EDSA Tres. But we are entitled to have our ‘EDSA story’, for history’s relevance is derived from the significance we attach to it. EDSA Mo, EDSA Ko! is our chance to give and live the meaning of the EDSA historical events. Let’s make our ‘EDSA story’ and let’s make it creatively, fearlessly…and even, irreverently!

EDSA Mo, EDSA Ko!: The EDSA Stories Video Grant

EDSA Mo, EDSA Ko! is a video grant initiative open to all and aims to encourage a new generation of amateur filmmakers in re-imagining EDSA and People Power. EDSA Mo, EDSA Ko! challenges all to retell EDSA according to their own experiences or view of People Power, through the medium of cinema.

The EDSA Mo, EDSA Ko! video grant initiative will award up to ten (10) individual / team applicants a grant of Thirty Thousand Pesos (PhP30,000) each to produce short videos on the theme “Re-imagining EDSA.” All grantees will create their films to inspire positive change in their audiences, and contribute to the fulfillment of the following objectives:

  • Encourage an appreciation of history and its continuing significance in the present;
  • Involve different sectors in the active making and telling of people’s stories about EDSA;
  • Promote active citizenship and civic/political engagement;

This video grant is one component of Focus on the Global South-Philippines’ contribution to the 25th Anniversary of the 1986 EDSA People Power, the EDSA Stories Project. Following the public launch of the EDSA Stories Project on February 24, 2011, those interested have two months to complete the application for the grant.

There will be four (4) grant categories. Team or Individual Applicants must submit their applications under one of these categories. The grant categories are:

  • Open Category (4 grants)
  • Youth Category (2 grants): Open to those born after July 1, 1990
  • Women Category (2 grants): Open to women
  • Migrant Category (2 grants): Open to Overseas Filipinos or their immediate family members, and those who work on migrants issues

Only amateur filmmakers may apply for the Youth, Women, or Migrant categories. Selected grantees will produce videos in line with the categories they applied for in addition to the overarching theme “re-imagining EDSA”. Professional filmmakers who are interested in the grant initiative may apply in the Open category.

Only Filipino citizens may apply for the grant.