Favorite pen, reading glasses, lens cleaner, thumb drive, earphones, keys to the house, power pack, videocamera, shades, card reader, highlighter, mosquito patch…never, ever leave home without them.
Now all I need are some plane tickets.
Click HERE for Charity:Water video!
http://www.charitywater.org
There are plenty of people I admire: the late Steve Jobs, Stefan Sagmeister, Sugata Mitra, Ken Robinson, Pranav Mistry, Steven Spielberg, Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, my Tito Nene, my brother Robin, Ana Balcels, my most favorite couple in the world–Checcs and Jet Orbida, I used to admire JFK but realize I don’t know him that well, it was a time I can hardly relate to…
I realize that more than plain talent, it’s innovative ideas in making the world better or just plain excellence and extreme focus on whatever they did are what drew me towards these people.
But the person I can related to the most is this guy, Scot Harrison. Watch the videos! One is an interview on him and the other one is about Charity:water, the NGO he put up. Whenever I do something, I always think–what would Scot Harrison do and how would he do it?
2010 to present, we’re still a small company and we like it that way. We get to do everything ourselves so it’s still personal. Yeah, that’s our specialty, being personal with every project, every problem, every solution.
There is no fascination with the number 7. It just so happened that all the short films I did back then unintentionally had a number 7 in their title. And so it’s almost funny to stick to this number. Hey, maybe it’s my lucky number, who knows?
We started with this sharp mustard yellow Seven logo and went on to the softer non-logo branding “Let us tell your story”.
We’re still evolving but committed. I’ve grew up reading and hearing people reach their twilight years wanting to do what they’ve always wanted but never having done it…or some of them do it when they’re quite old. I’ve always said to myself that I won’t live that way. I will do what I want when it is clear to me what that is. And so I chose to do films and work with NGO’s. And I’ve never looked back ever since.
I will always keep on making films and working with NGO’s.
I realize that happiness is when you’re where you want to be and you’re with people you want to be with. That makes me a happy man.
An NGO-service provider, we set up Seventh Films specifically to help them (NGO’s) do their work of advocacy… help them fix the world so-to-speak.
A chance for a better life.
Click to watch my very first video for an NGO!
It was 2008. Me and my sister went out to the farm and shot these two kids before they went to school. No crew, just me, my sister and the twins. Yep, they’re twins and they love school. We shot this video from 5:30-7am only because they had to be in school. Brought the footage to Manila and Fiona Borres edited it.
It’s still one of my favorite videos even if it’s old because there was a simplicity to the whole thing. And it was all about “kids want to go to school”, period.
Must-read! Outliers literally hooked me into reading. Loved Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and Tipping Point but this was brilliant, I think. I loved it so much, I searched for the writer’s email and wrote him asking when his next book will come out. And he replied. He’s actually fun to watch on TED and his other speaking engagements which you can find on Youtube.
Talent Code is a must for parents and educators. It’s as brilliant as Outliers. When you’ve read both, it will give you a whole new insight into education, learning and achieving.
