I am one of the 2010 Cinemalaya Semi-finalists! Hurrah!

I got a surprising e-mail about 3 days ago. It's an e-mail I've been waiting for quite sometime now. An e-mail from the Cinemalaya competition 2010 saying I'm one of the semi-finalists!!!! Hurrah!!!! Oh just want to make a small intro about Cinemalaya. "Cinemalaya is a film funding organization in the Philippines, an arm of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) . Every year Cinemalaya chooses 10 worthy finalists from the entrants to help them produce their own film by funding the ten finalists Php 500,000 grant each (around US$10,000). It's a big thing you know, although ot's only Php500,000. I've been waiting for quite sometime on this kind of opportunity to produce my script (The Leaving). That's why tomorrow, October 29,2009, I need to attend an interview to "Place of the Gods", the "Gods" I'm pertaining to are the officers of the CInemalaya competition. I'm not sure who exactly they are but I heard they are composed of prominent actors/actresses, directors, and other high officials of the CCP. I will face the "Gods" tomorrow what will they ask me. Although it is a great news being considered being a semi-finalist, but there are also bad news. I heard we are currently 25 semi-finalists, after the interview tomorrow they will schedule us again for the "pitch", it's more like a proposal presentation again in front of the Gods. The "pitch" is more or less the judgement scaler whether they will choose someone or not. Then lastly they will choose entrants among the 25 semi-finalsts and will be proclaimed as the "finalists". It's a long and nerve racking process huh?! But Anyway, I have high hopes for this project and I will express all my thoughts tomorrow regarding my vision on my project. Wish me luck!