132: Tell Your Story with Robby Tantingco

Good Mornings with Nicole and Prax

Sir Robby is the Director of the Center for Kapampangan Studies, Head of Student Affairs & Vice President for External Affairs of Holy Angel University in Pampanga. He is the author of two books, “Destiny and Destination" and "Pinatubo: The Volcano in our Backyard" which won a National Book Award.

He is the scriptwriter of several films including, Aria in 2018 and Ari My Life with the King in 2015 which won as Festival Prize Winner in the 2015 Metro Manila Film Festival; and won Best Screenplay in the 2016 Gawad Urian.

In this episode we talk about,

• His favourite Kapampangan dish
• His inclination in drawing & love for reading comics ignited his passion for story-telling
• He shares the beginning his journey in screenwriting, how he failed after years of hard-work and how he eventually succeeded.

He shared the story of

• His time in the seminary cultivated a sense of high standard in learning
• The importance of keeping a personal diary and how he inspires his students to write
• How he makes time to write despite his ‘busy’ schedule
• The origin story of the Center for Kapampangan studies
• How he developed his passion in the Kapampangan Culture

Without further ado, I hope you enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with the story-teller Robert Tantingco.