Melissa Angela Verzosa Penafiel

Winner, 'US State Department's 2009 Democracy Video Challenge'

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Filmmaker based in the Philippines; East Asia and Pacific Region winner of the US State Department's 2009 Democracy Video Challenge

Melissa Angela Verzosa Penafiel on KCRW

For the second year in a row, the US State Department is challenging people around the world to talk about democracy and what it means.

State Department’s Democracy Video Challenge, 2010

For the second year in a row, the US State Department is challenging people around the world to talk about democracy and what it means.

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