Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada slammed China’s attempt to block the screening of the Filipino documentary “Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea” shown at a film festival held in New Zealand. This was after the Chinese Consulate General in Auckland asked the...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) threw its support behind a documentary featuring the struggles of Filipino fishermen and government frontliners in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), but earned the ire of China. The documentary “Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea” won the...
"Alipato at Muog" poster (Cinemalaya) ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro asked on Friday, Aug. 30, the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) to reconsider its “X” rating on the documentary film, "Alipato at...
The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) as led by its chair, Lala Sotto, released a statement recently concerning Darryl Yap's "Maid In Malacañang." It confirmed that it has reviewed the motion picture and that it has been given a Parental Guidance (PG) classification....
ILOILO CITY—Discovery Channel Asia will air a documentary on the natural treasures of Antique province next week. The documentary Antique: Where the Mountains Meet the Sea will premiere on Discovery Channel Asia on March 23. (Photo courtesy of Studio H2O / MANILA BULLETIN) “Antique is a...
LOS ANGELES - US actor and director Sean Penn is in Kyiv making a documentary about Russia's invasion, the Ukrainian president's office said Thursday. The double Oscar-winner was photographed attending a government press conference in Kyiv, and could be seen meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky in a...
India women journalists take the spotlight in a male-dominated field A CALLING Suneeta works as a journalist We got to see the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award winner, Writing with Fire , one of 15 feature documentaries shortlisted at the...
The Oscar-nominated documentary features a Filipina nurse’s COVID-19 ordeal The First Wave director Matthew Heineman One of the 15 documentary features vying for an Oscar in the coming 94th Academy Awards is Matthew Heineman’s The First Wave , an inside look at the COVID-19 health scare as the...
Through a film, historians rehabilitate the memory of the Philippines’ third President, seen as a wartime Japanese collaborator in popular memory IN BLACK AND WHITE The docu-drama, as the title suggests, revolves around the misunderstood nationalist and former Philippine President Jose P. Laurel....
Of grit and the passion to show the truth (Photo from whatweleft.com) 'What We Left Unfinished' (2019) The documentary by director Mariam Ghani tells the incredible and important story of five unfinished feature films from the Communist era in Afghanistan (1978-1991). An era where films were...
Thanks to celebrated filmmaker and documentarist Dr. Clodualdo Del Mundo’s curation Filipinos make the best documentaries. Pinoy-made documentaries are some of the most substantial, informative, and well-made programs in Philippine cinema and television. This has become more apparent now amid the...
All titles included are award-winning Clodualdo ‘Doy’ Del Mundo (photo from Mubi) This year, the Dokyu section of Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival will consist of five award-winning documentary films curated by acclaimed film director and screenwriter Clodualdo “Doy” Del...
