"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)...
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...
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 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...
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....
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...
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...
What would one of the Philippines' greatest revolutionaries do in this pandemic?
HONORING A MAN OF LETTER AND SCIENCE Poster of the documentary
On this day, June 19, in 1861, a Filipino icon was born. This well-traveled intellectual not only helped liberate the Philippines with his beliefs...
They're showing online for free
Mirroring real life situations—that is the main purpose of a documentary film. It is always about bringing the truth upfront and providing a voice to the voiceless.
Its art lies in masterful storytelling and raw film treatment all in ode to its...
