TV5’s Artista Academy joins forces with the Asian Academy of Television Arts (AATA) to provide the future stars intensive training in the various performing arts and thus sets the bar high for talent searches in Philippine television.
The AATA headed by Wilma Galvante, is where the 16 scholars are enrolled for basic classes in acting, singing and dancing.
The advisers include veteran director-actor Joel Lamangan as Acting Adviser; composer-musical director Louie Ocampo as Singing Adviser; and Georcelle Dapat-Sy, founder of G-Force as Dance Adviser.
Leo Martinez, head of the Film Academy of the Philippines, is the lecturer on the basic process of how to approach film and television acting as opposed to theater acting.
The live exams critics are Lorna Tolentino and Gelli de Belen. Tabulation together with the text votes determine the final fate of the scholar to be taken out.
Hosted by Cesar Montano on Saturdays and Marvin Agustin on weekdays, the ultimate Best Actor and Best Actress will win 20 million pesos worth of prizes making Artista Academy the biggest reality artista search in the country.
