Girard Tecson

Girard Tecson is an award winning Filipino filmmaker and the founder of Dayside Productions. He is a director, producer, writer, cinematographer and editor who is recognized for his work in digital media. Girard started his film endeavor in 2007, attending LaGuardia Community College for his first production class, and transferred to Hunter College to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Media Studies. His production experience came from independently producing several videos and films, which he brought like-minded friends and colleague to work on several projects such as short films, documentaries, commercials, music videos and Internet videos. He oversees all aspect of production by writing scripts, directing, cinematography and then editing. This started his production company called Dayside Productions. One of the biggest accomplishment of Dayside Productions is having their short film This Moment, a film about a guy who is stuck in a time loop, screen at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival after winning "Best Picture," "Best Actor," and "Best Soundtrack" at Campus Movie Fest in Hunter College. Their other short film, Romance of The Dead, a film about two zombies falling in love, has won awards at Williamsburg International Film Festival and CUNY Asian American Film Festival, and was screened at NYC Horror Film Festival. Dayside Production's Youtube channel, called Dayside TV, was made on September 23rd of 2009. On September 10th 2010, they became a full pledge Youtube Partner. This partnership allows them to posts their latest films along with their other youtube videos like various web series, vlogs, event coverages, reviews and other awesome videos. Dayside TV has over 3 million video views on Youtube. In 2012, Dayside Productions was picked to take part of Ryan Higa's The Next Internet Icon directed and produced by Andy Fickman (The Game Plan / Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2), an episodic video making competition that was filmed at the Los Angeles Center Studios. They were picked as part of the Top 10 out of the thousand of submissions, and managed to achieve to 5th place overall during the competition. They were the most watched and talked about group in the show due to their 'bad guy' approach.