SINAG MAYNILA was born in 2015, with the vision of Mr. Wilson Cheng and award-winning filmmaker Brillante Mendoza’s aspiration to help local indie filmmakers, it is now back with a variety of films from documentaries to full-length features which aim to educate festival-goers locally and internationally with it’s tagline Sine
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Neomanila: Earned Redeption Failure
Warning: Full spoilers below. Neomanila has the uncanny ability to disorient. The film initially posits that in the underbellies of Manila, its inhabitants learn how to hold on to whatever light they can manage to get their hands on. It makes its audience believe that optimism is its endgame, that it
FESTIVAL REPORT: Sinag Maynila 2015
Currently running across seven SM cinemas around Metro Manila, Sinag Maynila stays true to its promise of offering “Pelikulang Pinoy, Pusong Pinoy” with five creative and socially relevant films: Paul Sta. Ana‘s Balut Country, about the story of a man undecided what to do with the duck farm business left
M. (Mother’s Maiden Name)
M. (Mother’s Maiden Name) tries to respond to two questions: (1) What does your mother’s maiden name mean to you? (2) What do you do when dealt with an illness on its terminal phase? For the first, the dramedy explicitly responds through a direct answer coming from the icy, meticulous, career-driven
Five on five—MMFF 2014 New Wave entries
Aside from the primary—essentially mainstream—line-up of films, the annual Metro Manila Film Festival has also committed to an “indie” section called New Wave, which will run starting tomorrow, December 17th thru 24th. We have asked the five directors of this year’s competing films to send us their own best
