endIndex: Antoinette Jadaone s Fan Girl, starring Paulo Avelino and Charlie Dizon, won the Best Picture in this year s Metro Manila Film Festival. Screencap from BLACK SHEEP/YOUTUBE
Dagupan (CNN Philippines Life) With Filipino stories dominating the screens every Christmas season, the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) is historically home to some of mainstream Filipino cinema’s best and worst.
This year, the MMFF expands its film selection to ten films instead of the usual eight, and offers even Filipinos outside of the country a chance to celebrate with the community, via online streaming as the country is still in quarantine.
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CHRISTIAN ACUNA may have helmed
Magikland, but for all intents and purposes, the fantasy-adventure film was a Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes film, harkening back to more than two decades ago when
Magic Temple premiered at the Metro Manila Film Festival in 1996, winning 14 of the festival’s prizes.
Magikland, while a tribute to the cinematic career of Peque Gallaga (fondly called by some the “Steven Spielberg of the Philippines” for his ambitious works) is also a look at what the Filipino industry is capable of: that with enough time and a big enough budget, it is possible for a film to almost completely be done with great computer-generated imagery (CGI).
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Various GMA Artist Center talents make their way through the first-ever online edition of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) as they are set to appear in some of this year’s entries, continuing the holiday tradition among Filipino families of watching local movies, under the new normal.
Sanya Lopez
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Sought-after leading lady Sanya Lopez is sure to end the year on a high note as she stars in ‘Isa Pang Bahaghari,’ alongside a stellar cast top-billed by no less than the Superstar Nora Aunor. In this family drama directed by Joel Lamangan, she breathes life to Nora’s youngest child who was forced into prostitution due to poverty. Also starring in the movie is Kapuso heartthrob Dave Bornea.
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