The Montañosa Film Festival boasts an exciting lineup across narrative, documentaries, mobile phone films, and the newly introduced animation and children’s films categories
FILIPINO actress Dolly de Leon has been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas), the organization that hands out the Oscars.
Simply dubbed "Pagliyab," the event celebrated the continuous rise of regional cinema, as well as the passion for filmmaking as evidenced by the number of attendees from across the archipelago.
And yet this year, just as Hollywood is rooting for Asian representation and the Academy Awards is actively inviting Filipino filmmakers, the Film Academy of the Philippines did not send an entry The elusive gold statuette trophy of the Academy (Oscar) is still a dream for the Philippines. Never i