Manila Tagalog Film Festival
Location | Manila, Philippines |
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Founded |
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Disestablished |
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Successor | Metro Manila Film Festival |
Language | Filipino |
The Manila Tagalog Film Festival, also known as the Manila Film Festival, was a film festival organized in the city of Manila, Philippines. It is considered as the precursor to the Metro Manila Film Festival.
History
Then-Manila Mayor Antonio Villegas inaugurated the "Manila Film Festival" ("Manila Tagalog Film Festival").[1] The annual film festival ran for 10 days starting on the foundation day of Manila on June 24. During the run of the event, only Philippine films would be screened in theaters in Manila.[2] It was set up in order to get Philippine films screened in "first-run" theaters which at that time only screened American films. Locally produced films prior to the film festival's first run was only screened at second-tier theaters.[3]
The success of the Manila Film Festival led to the Philippine Motion Picture and Producers Association (PPMA) starting their own film festival in Manila as well as other cities in the Philippines such as
The Manila Film Festival was revived in 1991 by then-Mayor
References
- ^ "Subsidize movie industry – Lito Atienza". February 4, 2010. Archived from the original on November 29, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
- ^ Mata, Paul (December 21, 2018). "The Metro Manila Film Festival: A Filipino yuletide tradition". PEP.ph. Retrieved December 25, 2018.
- ^ "2 romances, a horror flick, and a family drama make up the final four MMFF entries". BusinessWorld. October 12, 2018. Retrieved December 25, 2018.
- ^ Arevalo, Ike (June 21, 1992). "The Mother of All Filmfests". Sunday Standard. Philippine Manila Standard Publishing. pp. 7–10. Retrieved April 16, 2023 – via Google News.