'Reel Time' wins coveted Cannes Gold Dolphin Award

GMA Public Affairs' documentary series "Reel Time" has brought home the Gold Dolphin Award at the prestigious Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards 2019 held in France.

"Batang Maestro," the winning documentary, bested 950 productions from 51 countries to bag the highly coveted award.

The award is the first of its for "Reel Time," but it's not the first time that "Batang Maestro" was honored.

The documentary was conferred the highly commended citation in the Domestic Affairs Documentary at the Association for International Broadcasting Awards (AIBs) in 2018.

It tells the story of 12-year-old Dagul and his fellow volunteer "little teachers," who brave the long river of Donsol on board a bamboo raft that they sometimes have to push against the current, and takes an hour walk up to a village on a mountain.

Their goal is to reach children who have difficulty reading because they live so far from school that they’re often absent from classes.

—JCB, GMA News