It is quite a sad day as reports of Cesar Hernando’s passing has circulated across Facebook, and in the midst of the 100 years of Philippine Cinema, we have lost one of it’s greatest masters. In his last work as a director, and his only full-length film ‘Gayuma‘ continuously brings
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The Ultimate Guide to the 2016 Sinag Maynila Independent Film Festival
Sinag Maynila is back in its second year, with five hard-edged indies by young Filipino filmmakers Adolf Alix Jr., Ato Bautista, Gino Santos, Jay Altarejos, and Mes de Guzman. The independent film festival is the brainchild of Wilson Tieng (of Solar Entertainment Corporation) and renowned filmmaker Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay), who,
Cinemalaya 2015 screens its best films in retrospect
For the past eleven years, as a cinephile in the Philippines, going to Cinemalaya is like going to Pilgrimage. You get to watch films that rarely make it to the chopping block of mainstream media; films that enrich the mind (in my perspective, at least), inform the public of the existential
