ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
Making a feature film just got a lot easier for this year’s Puregold CinePanalo filmmakers. CMB Film Services is officially back on board as a festival partner, and they are bringing a massive budget boost with them by raising their equipment rental grants to a cool PHP 1.25 million per project—marking a PHP 250,000 bump from last year.
Puregold CinePanalo is partnering with post-production house Terminal Six Post to award post-production grants to the seven full-length feature films making their debut at the 2026 CinePanalo Film Festival. Each film will receive a Terminal Six Post voucher worth PHP100,000, which can be applied toward a range of post-production services, helping filmmakers elevate their final outputs for theatrical exhibition.
Puregold CinePanalo, currently on its third iteration, has unveiled the top 20 student short films culled from an impressive pool of 267 submissions nationwide. Chosen from an initial top 53 shortlist, the select entries were crafted by the Philippines’ most promising student filmmakers who are poised to shape the future of Philippine cinema.
As Puregold CinePanalo continues to endeavor producing world-class Filipino films in its third run, the film festival announced its collaboration with audio post house Stage Post Audio and Music Productions Inc., to help bring a unified approach to the audio quality of this year’s entries.
In a recently forged partnership, the Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival and the Asia Pacific Film Institute committed to providing full scholarship grants and tuition discounts for winners and participants in the Festival’s Student Shorts Category. These benefits are on top of the Festival’s creative grant of PHP200,000 per Student Short.
Puregold CinePanalo 2026 has released their official Top 15 shortlist for the festival’s full-length category. The select entries come from the country’s most driven directors who range from emerging voices in the field to eminent visionaries of the industry. The diversity and quality of the line-up assure cineastes that this will be the most competitive and exciting year of the Puregold CinePanalo yet.
The Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival has announced the 33 shortlisted full-length films from 203 entries submitted by emerging, established, and even iconic local filmmakers.
Beat the deadline! On September 10, 2025, Wednesday, at 11:59 pm, the application window for the Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival full-length category officially closes. With the largest production grants in Philippine festival history up for grabs, filmmakers must seize this chance to secure their place on the country’s fast-rising cinematic stage.
The competition is fierce for the top acting awards in this year’s Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival. The festival’s awarding body just released the official list of nominees for the festival’s acting awards, highlighting the cream of the crop in an already stacked lineup of performances.
Award-winning documentarist Baby Ruth Villarama released the teaser for her much-anticipated film Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea, her entry into the 2025 Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival, and what seeks to be a strong contender for multiple awards at the country’s fastest-rising film fest.