Calvento Files Valerie true story
Calvento Files Valerie true story – Our ideas and behaviours are influenced by television. While there are shows that are instructional and enlightening, some primetime or “family hour” programming nevertheless features scenes of violence and other crimes. Since the middle of the 1990s, criminal docudramas have become popular in the Philippines.
Our TV binge-watching, especially on weekends, has always included programmes that explore violent or terrible crimes. Crime investigation takes up the Saturday afternoon timeslot, when the entire family is typically at home, as if the killings, bombings, and other acts of violence in the news weren’t enough.
The best horror author on 90s Pinoy TV
There was one documentary series that started it all in 1995, the Calvento Files, long before ABS-CBN’s Soco (Scene of the Crime Operatives), anchored by Gus Abelgas in 2005, and Mike Enriquez’s Imbestigador on GMA7. The late Tony Calvento was cast as the show’s narrator, and ABS-CBN initially planned for the programme to be a hybrid of the concepts of two public affairs programmes, Magandang Gabi Bayan and Maalaala Mo Kaya.
He wore his trademark dark-hued Godfather sunglasses and a business suit. The combination of these two highly-rated programmes produced a two-hour documentary that undoubtedly awoke the emotions and knowledge of the Filipino audience about how some crimes are planned and carried out, how these crimes are discovered, and how felons are sentenced. It lasted for a respectable three years.
When Calvento Files debuted that year, I was a recent college graduate writing for a youth magazine, and the show’s inaugural episode featured the Oroquieta slaughter. Soon after that, I would spend my Friday nights in front of the TV with my mouth open and my eyes wide open in a ludicrous combination of astonishment and terror, surprise and horror. I would even go so far as to switch off the TV when the scenes were particularly graphic, fighting the impulse to do so lest I wake up because of the trauma.
Even though Calvento, a seasoned broadcast journalist and columnist, provides engaging tales, most of us will never forget the horrifying acts depicted in the tape, even as we prepare to go to bed at night. Don’t misunderstand me. It’s not awful for a programme to evoke this response from a viewer like myself. The show’s creative staff actually performed a great job of deeply affecting its audience.
Calvento was a genuine storyteller since he was a skilled screenwriter and journalist. In reality, it was Calvento Files that helped him win prizes from the Philippine National Police and the National Bureau of Investigation as well as the Presidential Award for his work in solving crimes and the Golden Scroll Award for Journalism. The episode “Dying young but not in vain” of the show earned the top prize in the best docu-drama category at the 1999 New York Film Festival.
However, as the team said in a previous interview, they reach out to the victims and witnesses involved to ensure well-developed characterization in addition to basing their scripts and plots on what Mr. Calvento has written in his column.
The crew reads every piece Mr. Calvento has published that is available and selects the most intriguing or contentious ones. The piece would serve as the catalyst for the team’s early investigation. Before creating a sequence treatment, producers read the materials, conduct additional research, and interview the relatives of the victims, the witnesses, and even the perpetrator, if required.
Also, Read