The Metro Manila Film Festival is a an annual film festival in the Philippines. It was established in 1975 and has been celebrated for about 37 years now. As a support for the films included in the festival, no foreign films will be shown on the duration of the festival, from the official premiere on December 25 until the first week of January.
As a movie goer, its the first time that I have actually watched any film from the festival during the festival and on a participating cinema. As an observation, the movies were not “serious”. Well most of them. The movies were all for the purpose of entertaining the mass and seldom would you see a very educational or exceptional movie. In all honesty, I think that the last-minute entry, Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story was the first of its kind to ever get selected for the MMFF.
I think that MMFF still has a long way to go compared to other film festivals. But, I also think that the vibrancy festivals in terms of its supporters is a positive sign. At present, I think that it mainly focuses on profiting from locally-produced films and it should also venture out of that purpose in the future to actually present sensible and culturally enriching movies.
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