Contending the Present Issues of the Film Industry in the Philippines

Now far from breathing its last breath, Philippine cinema is continuously struggling, reinventing itself – especially in the hands of new directors, mostly working on smaller productions that are now becoming more and more noticed by renowned local and international film festivals and award-giving bodies.

With digital filmmaking already becoming a norm in Philippine cinema, new and independent filmmakers with their fresh quality concepts, eccentricities, and nuances included, are now surfacing – giving the film industry its much-needed boost. Some of them are now also starting to break in to commercial film endeavors that, although the mainstream formula is still being imposed on them, the attempts to go beyond such a box is already apparent on certain aspects of their works. Yet, the local film industry clearly has a number of issues and problems that are needed to be addressed and be provided solutions to in order to make the industry thrive further.

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Contending the Present Issues of the Film Industry in the Philippines