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Special screening of Korea’s Walking Street set on March 12 On Sunday, March 12, the Sinag Maynila Film Festival will finally reveal its top picks for this season at the Gabi ng Parangal in Samsung Hall, SM Aura. The finalists for Full Length includes KRISTO by HF Yambao, BEYOND THE BLOCK by Ricardo Carranza, LADYFISH […]
Featuring “REFLECTIONS”, a film from the Asian Three-Fold Mirror Project The Sinag Maynila Film Festival “Sine Lokal, Pang-Internasyonal” officially opens on March 9, Thursday, at SM Aura Premier. Filmmakers and the actors from each film entry, special guests, and the media are invited to grace the opening ceremony of the festival. Sinag Maynila opens the […]
Entries are now being accepted for the third season of Sinag Maynila Film Festival! Sinag Maynila and its featured local indie films have been gaining traction in various international film festivals—Vesoul International Asian Movies Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival among others. Under the supervision of Sinag Maynila CEO and Founder […]
Director Mes De Guzman’s film ‘Dyamper’ is about three friends wait along Dalton Pass every dawn to jump at the back of rice delivery trucks to steal the goods and sell it at the wet market as their means of income. One of them accidentally gets a pack of drugs in one of the trucks […]
70-year-old Virginia (Elizabeth Oropesa) shares the old ancestral house with Delia (Lotlot de Leon), her ever-loyal maid. Delia is marrying her long-time boyfriend, Rene, and tearfully confides to Virginia that she wants to go home to her parents in the province to start a new family life with him. Haunted by a past that Virginia […]
“My film that will be shown during the festival would be my third attempt,” Direk Jay reveals. “I’ve shot something, I have a story in my mind, [but] when I saw some of the footage, they’re so experimental that it is not the requirement of the festival, so three times nabugbog sa pelikula ko pero […]
A syndicate old-timer named Ben (Alvin Anson) needs to do one last assignment before the boss he works for grants him his much delayed retirement. Assigned to be his partner is the neophyte Morris (Aljur Abrenica), a trigger-happy, sadist who yearns to impress the syndicate boss. For Ben, this last assignment turns out to be a journey […]
Sinag Maynila is looking for more talented filmmakers! Share with us the stories you want to tell and what visual magic you want to show to the world. Join the Sinag Maynila Film Festival Short Film Category by downloading the form on the official Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SinagMaynila. Short Film Category Mechanics and Requirements: 1. Fill out […]
Since its successful inauguration last March 2015, the first set of featured films have debuted in various international film festivals. “The exposure of the filmmakers in other countries brings pride and honor to Sinag Maynila and to the Filipino Filmmakers,” says Festival Director Brillante Mendoza. As we welcome the new year, the independent film festival Sinag Maynila already […]