The UPFI would like to congratulate its outstanding alumna Bianca Balbuena-Liew for being awarded Producer of the Year by the Asian Film Commissions Network in Busan, South Korea, for helping pave the way for Filipino filmmakers to showcase their talents and stories beyond the Philippines.

She also received the Camera Obscura Artistic Excellence Award at the Film Development Council of the Philippines’ (FDCP) Film Ambassadors’ Night 2019. The Camera Obscura Artistic Excellence Award is given by the FDCP to films, filmmakers, and artists whose achievements and breakthroughs have positively inspired the Philippine film industry to aspire to greater heights.