Gil De Palma
President & CEO
Palmagick Entertainment Inc.
Founder
Gameris, Inc.
| Telephone: | (632) 6875028 Loc 274 |
| Facsimile: | (632) 6314858 |
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| Website: | www.palmagick.com |
Writer. Artist. Filmmaker. Entrepreneur.
Creative entrepreneur Gil De Palma is the founder of comics/animation/video game company Palmagick Entertainment Inc. Aside from being Palmagick’s President & CEO, he is also its “Chief Creative Guy.”
Gil is the creator of the superhero pack TaeKwonDoggs, author/artist of the illustrated online novel and screenplay "Burny," and writer of the award-winning screenplays “Window” and “Moon Dragon.”
He is also the creator of the video games Wordtrotter, ChompCars, and Plantapet.
Gil is an author in the American Chronicle, California Chronicle, Los Angeles Chronicle, World Sentinel, and an Expert Author in Ezine Articles. He likewise contributes to Buzzle, Talk Mania, Geckoe, and other online publications.
In 2001, the University of the Philippines awarded him the National Writers Fellowship for Screenplay, the most prestigious creative writing fellowship in the Philippines.
His other awards:
- Best Screenplay, 38th U.P. National Writers Workshop
- Finalist, 2007 Asian Television Forum SuperPitch Competition (Singapore)
- Finalist, 2003 Moondance International Film Festival (Hollywood)
- Finalist, 2002 CineManila International Film Festival
- Semi-Finalist, 2001 Paramount Pictures-Chesterfield Film Company
The Writer’s Film Project (Hollywood) - Semi-Finalist, 1999 Big Australian International Screenplay Competition
Gil took up B.S. Psychology at the University of the Philippines as a preparatory course for Medicine, but his artistic inclination led him to a different path. He created comics, wrote short stories, essays, stage plays, television scripts, screenplays, and directed short films.
In 1998, his two films, “Catatonic” and “Ang Huling Utot” (The Last Fart), gained the approval of critics and peers and were chosen from about fifty of the best short films made that year to represent the U.P. Film Center in the annual Cultural Center of the Philippines Film Festival.
While still a college sophomore, Gil also started his own business. He launched his one-man advertising agency Gpalma Advertising. His clientele included some of the Philippine’s top corporations and even other advertising agencies.
None of them realized that he was just a student!
Propelled by the comics globalization imperative of the 90s, Gil repositioned his ad agency and changed its name to Camp Comics to become a player in the international market. Overnight, his flagship title Kick of the TaeKwonDoggs became one of the hottest Filipino-made comic books. Some local and foreign companies knocked at Camp Comics’ door for possible publishing, distribution, and licensing deals. There was even an offer to buy the title altogether. Television networks and movie outfits also made offers.
But he didn’t think it was the right time.
Gil turned down these proposals because back then he had already envisioned an entertainment company of his own that would produce online novels, animated series, movies, and video games featuring his creative works.
Now he is at the helm of that company, Palmagick Entertainment.
Together with his long-time friends and creative partners, Corporate Lawyer/Writer Arlene Mendoza, Singapore-based award-winning Creative Directors Jeff Mendoza and Joni Raso, and a team of Filipino writers, artists, and programmers, Gil specializes in developing and adapting comics, novels, screenplays, and films to graphic novels, mobile content, video games, the Internet and other media.
In cooperation with Singapore-based Tin Can Mobile Solutions, Gil’s team has developed a unique 5-episode story-driven mobile game series based on the TaeKwonDoggs. It features five stand-alone yet interlinked mobile games:
- Episode 1: Kick of the TaeKwonDoggs: “Nemesis”
- Episode 2: Kick of the TaeKwonDoggs: “Kabukicks”
- Episode 3: Kick of the TaeKwonDoggs: “Starboy”
- Episode 4: Kick of the TaeKwonDoggs: “Xperimentals”
- Episode 5: Kick of the TaeKwonDoggs: “Warkind”
Gil, Lenny Mendoza, and another friend and business partner, Johnny I. Tamayo, President of software solutions company Globis, Inc., have teamed-up to form the video game publishing company Gameris, Inc. Short for Gamer Islands, Gameris handles the financing, promotion, and marketing aspects of the games developed by Palmagick.
At present, Gil and the CEO of a Canadian animation company are gearing up for the 2009-2010 production of the Kick of the TaeKwonDoggs animated movie.
Gil is also writing the novels The Angel Fire, The Last of the Eye-Eaters, and Moon Dragon.
It is time.
Gil runs the following websites:
www.palmagick.com
The official Palmagick Entertainment website
www.kick-of-the-taekwondoggs.com
The official TaeKwonDoggs website
www.taekwondoggs.palmagick.com
Online comics of the superhero pack TaeKwonDoggs
www.burny.palmagick.com
Character site of the illustrated novel and screenplay “Burny”
www.wordtrotter.com
The official website of the video game Wordtrotter
www.wordtrotter.palmagick.com
The concept presentation site of the video game Wordtrotter
www.play4scholars.com
Wordtrotter’s play-for-a-cause website