Ginggay Hontiveros-Malvar

As Managing Director of The Extra Mile Productions, Ginggay co-heads a team of film and video creatives that presents compelling visual narratives of the Philippines and the Filipino – from the northernmost to the southernmost reaches of the archipelago. As a project manager of various government-private sector partnerships in the Visayas and Mindanao, she helps concretize opportunities for hope, recovery and development among communities ravaged by natural calamities, burdened by poverty, and torn apart by armed conflict.

Underlying all these involvements is Ginggay’s belief that making a difference in the lives of others is essential. Thus, she sees compassion as the key ingredient for a fruitful exchange that goes beyond all borders – of geography, of society, of culture, of faith.

In her eyes, poverty is the root cause of Muslim Mindanao’s woes. She believes that now more than ever, in the face of material lack and ethnic quarrels, the values of mutual understanding and open-mindedness are required to seek solutions to the violence.