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Solar Entertainment Corporation, together with renowned director Brillante Mendoza, launched this film festival that aims to support local independent cinema. Sinag Maynila will showcase works from notable directors in local indie cinema. The 2016 Sinag Maynila Film Festival announced the winners, April 24 at the Samsung Hall in SM Aura Premier. Here’s the list of …
“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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
April 21-26 at Select SM Cinemas.
After a successful initial year, Solar Entertainment Corporation, through its head Wilson Tieng and together with festival director Brillante Mendoza, is proud to announce the entries for Sinag Maynila 2016. More than a hundred entries were submitted and only five films were chosen. Each entry will be receiving a grant of two million pesos. The …
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