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Myra Aquino’s “Beauty Queen” is the Best Short in this year’s edition of the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival.

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Cinemalaya’s Cinema Under the Stars will push through, even after its original schedule was affected by the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) imposed on Metro Manila to prevent the spread of COVID-19’s Delta variant.

Thanks to Cinemalaya and the CCP, the Philippine cinema industry stays afloat.

Among other surprises, a drive-in cinema!
With the flow of our global health crisis still gripping the country, Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival navigates through the social current and plugs in the life support for the industry as it journeys anew to the digital platform this coming Aug. 6 to Sept. 5, 2021, to be streamed solely on KTX.ph. Leaning on the knowledge of the built-up from last year’s edition, the country’s most prominent independent film festival presents its second online edition with 13 short film competing for the prestigious Balanghai trophies.

Since its fruition in 2005, the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival has been the most prominent film festival for indie films—often seen as the platform for rising filmmakers to share their art and vision.

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Joining the Netflix line up for Filipino films this October is “1st ko si 3rd” an independent romantic-comedy produced by Firestarter Productions in 2014 for the Cinemalaya Film Festival.

The Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival this year runs from Aug. 7 to 16 but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the movies will be screened on Vimeo.