AWARD-WINNING ‘KONTRA CORONA’ FILM TO BE SHOWN ON THE FILIPINO CHANNEL (TFC)
As a result of a recent partnership agreement between ABS CBN Global/ The Filipino Channel (TFC) and Juan Eu Konek, the award-winning “Kontra Corona” documentary film on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Filipino communities in the UK, Italy and Spain will now be shown on TFC for two successive weekends on 9th October (Part 1) and 16th October 2022 (Part 2) at;
NOLA: 11pm Pacific
EMEA: 11pm Saudi/London
APAC: 10.30 pm Asia/ 12.30 am Guam (Monday).
Juan Eu Konek, a digital programme and non-profit organisation, was involved in the production of six documentaries on the lives and times of the Filipino community in the United Kingdom and in Europe at the height of the coronavirus pandemic from September 2020 to March 2021.
The series of documentaries, dubbed as ‘Kontra Corona,’ was funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and was distilled into two hours of film. It won the Best Documentary Film award at the Migration Advocacy and Media Awards by the Commission on Filipinos Overseas for 2021, awarded at the Manila Hotel in March 2022.
Following a successful screening at SOAS University of London in November 202, attended by former Ambassador Antonio Lagdameo, the film was shown to the British Filipino community in Wales in September 2022 at the Wrexham Glyndwr University with Charge d’Affaires Rhenita Rodriguez in attendance.
We lost around 60-80 Filipino frontliners during the first wave of the pandemic in the UK alone and our Filipino health workers in the NHS, in care homes and across Europe continue to put themselves at risk everyday as we continue to battle the virus.
Whilst the coronavirus pandemic seems to have lost its intensity, it is important to show this film to everyone to remind them of what we all went through in the face of a totally unseen and unknown enemy, how we coped with it and supported each other as communities, and as a tribute to those who lost their lives.
It is an honour and a privilege for Juan Eu Konek to have been able to record the lives and deaths of members of the community during such a tumultuous period.