#Cinemalaya2023 Reviews: Iti Mapukpukaw, Rookie, As If It’s True

Before I write my reviews of these three amazing Cinemalaya movies, I would like to share that I watched them three in one day, making my watching experience wonderful. Three movies about connection, good and bad. ITI MAPUKPUKAW (THE MISSING) ReviewDirected by Carl Joseph Papa We don’t get a lot of Filipino animated movies and …

Pelikulove’s “SHOUTOUT PINAS 2022” premieres at Cinemalaya 

Guided by artist-mentors Ricky Lee, Rody Vera, Jeffrey Jeturian, Issa Manalo Lopez, Raffy Tejada, and Ellen Ongkeko Marfil, Pelikulove presents its debut film featuring unfiltered perspectives of the youth that yield unbridled hope through five winning film and theater works strung in an eye-popping anthology.  Entitled “SHOUTOUT PINAS 2022”, the anthology will be shown as an exhibition …

Meet the competition and NETPAC jury members of Cinemalaya 2023

The Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Cinemalaya Foundation Inc. identify five outstanding individuals who will take the most demanding and arduous task to select films from the festival’s cinematic harvest to receive the Balanghai trophies. This year, the jury who will decide the fate of the competing filmmakers in Cinemalaya 19 includes: actress …

Cinemalaya 19 illuminates with new competing films, to screen at the PICC

For its 19th edition, the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival promises to deliver the best visual storytelling with new competing films to be screened at a new venue. With the CCP Main Building undergoing rehabilitation, the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Cinemalaya Foundation, Inc. push the boundaries and bring its brand of cinematic …