Congratulations to veteran Ragnarok player and Game Hero Master Diwa, who won the Best Musical Score Award for the film “Kolorete” in the Cinema One Awards.

This was his first ever full-length film original soundtrack.

Here’s an excerpt from his blog entry detailing how he discovered to his shock that he won the award.

I made the original music score for the film “Kolorete”, (produced by COO) which gained two major awards, and several nominations including “Best Musical Score“. During the grand awards ceremonies held at Dolphy Theater of ABS CBN, (Nov. 28, 2008) the “Best Musical Score” award went to the movie “Alon”, another COO production. “Kolorete” is my first ever full-length film original soundtrack.

However, there was a recent development. It was discovered (read: may nagsumbong), that the movie “Alon” didn’t use original music. The music they used in the film was actually existing copyrighted music by international composer/producer Brian Eno, used without permission. Upon discovering this, COO revoked the award and granted it to the second highest jury choice for “Best Musical Score”, and that is Diwa de Leon (ME!) for the movie “Kolorete”.

Again, our congratulations, Master Diwa. This just goes to show how wrong the stereotypes about gamers are. Yes, gamers have a life outside gaming, and in fact also have great achievements IRL (In Real Life).

To those of you who missed Master Diwa’s live-streamed mini-concert on our Reliving LIVE online show, the good news is that he will be our guest on Dec. 17, 3 p.m. on our first ever Christmas online show, LIVE! The Show: Merry LU! Christmas!

So abangan po ninyo ang mini-concert niya, and join the chat session where he’ll talk about his experiences as a member of the LU! community and the new album of his band, Makiling. Plus, don’t forget that you have a chance to win 1,000 or 500 LU! credits in our early bird promo for the online show. And we have other promos that we’ll hold during the show, so tune in from Dec. 15-19. The live video stream and live blog will start on Dec. 15 at 10 am, Philippine Standard Time.

Merry LU! Christmas, everyone!

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