Summer Metro Manila Film Festival

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Summer Metro Manila Film Festival
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LocationMetro Manila
Founded2020
AwardsGabi ng Parangal
(transl. Awards Night)
LanguagePrimarily Filipino

The Summer Metro Manila Film Festival (Summer MMFF) is a film festival intended to be held annually in Metro Manila, Philippines. The event is a spin-off of the Metro Manila Film Festival which is officially held every December. Like its sister festival, it excludes foreign films and only shows shortlisted entries in digital theaters except IMAX and 4D theaters.

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It was originally slated to take place in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced to halt the event as a result of closure of the theaters having to shut for over 20 months. The first edition is held in April 2023. [1]

Background

The Metro Manila Summer Film Festival was intended to be as a "second run" of the annual Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). The summer festival was proposed to start on Black Saturday which usually falls in the summer season of the Philippines while the regular MMFF will continue to start every Christmas Day of the year. A summer iteration of the MMFF was adopted to encourage Filipino filmmakers to create more films. It would not be the first time the MMFF was held "twice a year". During the tenure of Mayors Antonio Villegas of Manila and Joseph Estrada of San Juan, the MMFF was held twice with the first run starting every June 24 or Manila Foundation Day and the second run on December 25. [2]

The summer film festival was a proposal of Senator Bong Go who became a member of the MMFF Executive Committee in 2019. The MMFF Executive Committee adopted Go's proposal and announced the establishment of a summer festival. Originally the Metro Manila Summer Film Festival (MMSFF), the first edition was set to be held from April 11 to 21, 2020 but was cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. It would be organized in partnership with the Cinema Exhibitors Association of the Philippines. [3] In 2021, the film festival was not held at all due to the pandemic. [4] It was not held again in 2022 due to scheduling conflicts with the 2022 Philippine general election.

The Summer Metro Manila Film Festival would be successfully launched in April 2023.

However, it was decided that the film festival not be held for 2024. [5] [6]

Festivals

FestivalYearAwards Night
VenueCity
— [lower-alpha 1] 2020Film festival cancelled [lower-alpha 2]
2021–2022: Not held
1st 2023 New Frontier Theater Quezon City
2024: Not held

Notes

  1. ↑ Cancelled inaugural edition
  2. ↑ No venue has ever been announced

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References

  1. ↑ "After 3-year delay, MMFF to launch summer festival in April". Rappler . January 10, 2023. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  2. ↑ Adel, Rosette (July 25, 2019). "MMFF to hold summer festival next year". Philippine Star. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  3. ↑ "MMFF to run twice a year starting 2020". Rappler. July 26, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Summer MMFF still not happening this year amid COVID-19 surge". ABS-CBN News. April 15, 2021. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  5. ↑ del Rosario, Pauline (January 11, 2024). "'Summer MMFF 2024' hindi matutuloy, pag-arangkada ng PPP pag-aaralan pa" ["'Summer MMFF 2024' will not take place, conduct of PPP still under study"]. Bandera (in Filipino). Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  6. ↑ Mallorca, Hannah (January 9, 2024). "MMFF 2023 hits P1-billion box office sales; ditches Summer MMFF". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
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