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With only days left until the end of the festival’s run, the noted filmmaker challenges moviegoers’ prejudicial statements with his top picks from MMFF 2021’s movie roster

‘Not even the big Hollywood films (like “Eternals”) are able to approximate the gross that MMFF 2021 has generated so far,’ MMFF spokesperson Noel Ferrer said

Where have all the movie fans gone?

With the recent news about the devastation brought by typhoon Odette hitting the headlines, the subject of the Metro Manila Film Festival entry film “Kun Maupay Man It Panahon” (which opens in theaters nationwide on Dec. 25) is as timely as ever.

You either love them or you don’t

“They were very happy.”

The cast of the upcoming film “Nelia” impressed the Korean community with their performance at a gathering in Manila-Korea Town, at Remedios Circle, Malate, Manila last Nov. 19.

Here’s hoping the 2021 edition of the Metro Manila Film Festival can redeem the local movie industry from its sorry state of dormancy, not bankruptcy. The announcement by the MMDA on Nov. 12 that the December festival shall be held in movie houses that, hopefully, shall be fully operational by then, speaks volumes of raised hopes among workers in the film world and its allied industries. In 2019, the MMFF grossed a total of P995 million at the box office.

The celebration of the 2021 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) will push through this coming December as the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced that the event will be held physically for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The list of this year’s participating movies in the 2020 Metro Manila Film Festival is finally out! Through a well-attended virtual press conference held recently, the organizers of this year’s MMFF revealed the wide array of film options that are awaiting Filipino movie fans this holiday season.  Since the announcement and enumeration of qualified entries lasted a long three hours, let me, in turn, write an article that is likewise about the interesting “numbers” that are represented in this year’s film fiesta. 

Organizers of the Metro Manila Film Festival announced on Tuesday, Nov. 24, the 10 official entries for 2020.

After Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Danilo Delapuz Lim informed Film Development Council of the Philippines Chair Liza Dino in a letter dated July 21 that they have withdrawn her appointment as member of the Executive Committee of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), comes FDCP’s response.