Metro Manila Summer Film Festival


Metro Manila Summer Film Festival is an upcoming film festival 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 will exclude foreign films and only show shortlisted entries in digital theaters except IMAX and 4D theaters.

Background

The Metro Manila Summer Film Festival was established as a "second run" of the annual Metro Manila Film Festival. The summer festival is set to start after 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. The MMFF has held two runs previously during the tenures Manila Mayor Antonio Villegas and Joseph Estrada with the first run starting every June 24 or Manila Foundation Day and the second run on December 25.
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. The first edition is set to be held from April 11 to April 21, 2020 and will be organized in partnership with the Cinema Exhibitors Association of the Philippines.

Film selection

Films to be screened at the Metro Manila Summer Film Festival will include films that were submitted but not selected as one of the official entries of the regular MMFF of the previous year.

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