If your child has the talent and you’ve got the camera, capture the amazing act for Sony Ericsson’s Wonder Kidz, a video contest to discover the country’s next web sensation.  Children can sing, dance or act their hearts out, play sports, express themselves through art, or just be fresh, funny or fascinating being themselves.  Upload the videos on the new Sony Ericsson Philippines Facebook page.  The top ten “most liked” entries will qualify as finalists for judging by a celebrity panel of judges. The winning wonder kid walks away with the new Sony Ericsson Vivaz with HD video, and PhP 50,000 in cash.

From Sony Ericsson’s growing communication entertainment family of handsets, the Vivaz and Vivaz pro offer touch video capture in HD quality.  Vivaz comes with an 8.1-megapixel camera with continuous auto focus for video, 4x digital zoom, touch capture, video light, geo tagging and image stabilizer.  Meantime, Vivaz pro, with its full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, also features HD quality image and video capture through its 5.1-megapixel camera.  Both handsets offer WiFi capability, Facebook and Twitter applications, FM radio, 3D games and impressive music and media players.  Vivaz and Vivaz Pro let you capture, view and share spontaneous moments and memories with the clarity of high definition technology to best record and display your child’s star turns.

To join Wonder Kidz, contestants must upload a 30- to 60-second video of their child to the Sony Ericsson Philippines Facebook page.  Label it with Vivaz Wonder Kidz and a video title.  Entries must have a brief description of the video, contestant’s full name, email and contact numbers.  Contestants are encouraged to promote their videos through their various social networks to become the “most liked.”  Spread the news about your child’s talents caught on video.

Got videos from last year’s school presentation or past holidays?  Sony Ericsson’s Wonder Kidz is about sharing fun and memorable moments from children and will accept past videos as long as the child is still 7 years of age at the time of the contest.

Wonder Kidz comes on the heels of the successful Sony Ericsson Search for the FIFA Flag Bearer, a video contest that brought the Philippines’ first flag bearer to the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.  Twelve-year old Megan Grace Lo of Pangasinan carried the FIFA flag with children from across Asia in the England vs. Algeria match.

Entries will be accepted until August 31, 2010.  Upload your kid’s videos now for more chances to be the nation’s favourite.

Contest’s full mechanics:

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The Winner!

Front Version:

Marvelous skits! Congratulations!

Watch and be amazed.

They Don’t Care About Us performed by the CPDRC Inmates produced by Byron Garcia. Thanks to Sony Studios who made this event possible.

Here’s the story I got from Yahoo Music.

Michael Jackson was a fan of the more than 1,500 Filipino inmates who performed the choreography for his video “Thriller” in 2007 and created a viral hit.

Jackson watched the videos of Cebu Provincial Detention And Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) prisoners during breaks from his tour rehearsals for “This Is It,” his choreographer Travis Payne said.

Payne recently contacted Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, and arranged to make a surprise visit to meet the performers in the high security prison, the Philippines’ Manila Bulletin reported.

Payne spent two hours on Sun., Jan. 17, and Mon., Jan. 18, teaching the dancers the routines from Jackson’s posthumous “This Is It” film.

“The Drill” is the last scene Payne and Jackson worked on together before the pop icon died in June. The clip was released over the weekend, days before the Tues., Jan. 26 release of the “This Is It”DVD.

The CPDRC performance videos of Jackson’s “Thriller,” “Dangerous,” and the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A,” among others, are all well done.

But Payne, who worked with Jackson for more than 10 years, was able to take their performance to new heights. Their rendition of Jackson’s “They Don’t Really Care About Us” is comparable to the scene in “This Is It.”

The “This Is It” version is a highlight of the film. It features a group of dancers who were digitally replicated to appear as an army. Payne’s work with the CPDRC men brought this virtual sequence to real life.

The inmates were not initially receptive to participating in the choreographed dances, said Bryon Garcia, a security consultant for the prison. He suggested the activity to keep the prisoners busy during their downtime, the Manila Bulletin reported.

According to the New York Times, Bryon decided to post videos of the prisoners dancing online to publicize some of the positive changes he implemented at Cebu since joining the staff in 2004.

That was just amazing. Brilliant performance by the inmates! Good job guys. 5 stars for Travis Payne and the other MJ dancers. You all did great.

This is an awesome tribute to Michael. He would be very much impressed. May he rest in peace.

This girl right here happens to be a true-blue Cebuana. Can you guess how old she is? She’s only 19. According to my sources, she is an interior design student, a freelance photographer, a singer, and a roamer. That is according to her. She also didn’t mention that she’s a model. As you can see from the photo right here, you can really say that she’s a model cause it shows with that pretty face, gorgeous eyes, long nose, lucious lips, and black hair. Wow. She’s beautiful and humble. But that’s not just what she’s all about. There’s more.

Who is she really? A goddess? An angel? A princess? A celebrity?

Try harder. You’ll figure it out sooner. Even I was amazed when I knew what and who she was.

RALEENE CABRERA

Raleene is only 19 years old yet she’s so perfect. These photos right here are all photographs by her. Imagine that. She took all of these beautiful shots of her. Wow. She is a professional photographer. According to Rizza (Raleene’s sister), she’s not a model. “She may have modeled for a few friends, though, but she is not a professional model.”

She graduated high school in Centre of International Education (CIE), an institution of higher education here in Cebu affiliated with Cambridge University. She’s an Interior Design student at La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. She’s a bright student and is a scholar at La Salle and in Philippine School of Interior Design . Isn’t that amazing? And she has a great taste in fashion.

Here’s more. You might want to check out this video:

Another thing about Raleene is she’s a singer. Not just an ordinary singer. Now, she and her sister (not quite sure) are being handled by Rico Blanco in Rivermaya and him as their manager. That’s just awesome. She has an amazing voice indeed. So I guess we won’t be surprised if we’ll just see her on our TV screens one day.

But another thing about her is, she has NBSB. Wanna know what that means? She has No Boyfriend Since Birth. Yep, that’s right. Imagine a girl as perfect as her has no boyfriend since birth? Wow, I wonder why. That’s the big question mark.

And in case you want to know, she is a vegetarian. Now, she is currently residing in Manila. Well, I guess I’ve said enough.

Want more of Raleene? Visit her blog at raleene.com. You can also see her other videos in Youtube here.

Many are so proud of you Raleene! Keep it up! You are a one true Cebuana!

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WTG Cebuana, WTG Raleene!