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The Manila Film Center is a building located at the southwest end of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay, Philippines. The structure was designed by architect Froilan Hong where its edifice is supported on more than nine hundred piles [ 1 ] which reaches to the bed-rock about 120 feet below.
It features several brutalist structures designed in the 1960s and 1970s by Leandro Locsin, such as the Tanghalang Pambansa, the Philippine International Convention Center, and the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila. Other landmarks in the complex include the Coconut Palace, the Manila Film Center, Star City amusement park, and Harbour Square. [2]
The Film Ratings Board was established in 1982 by virtue of Executive Order No. 811 signed by President Ferdinand E. Marcos. From 1982 to 1984, it functioned as one of the five modules under the ECP together with the Film Fund, Alternative Cinema, Film Archives, and Manila International Film Festival [MIFF].
The Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) is an annual film festival organized by the Metro Manila Development Authority [1] and held nationwide in the Philippines.The festival, which runs from Christmas Day through New Year's Day and into first weekend of January in the following year, focuses on Filipino produced films.
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The order mandated that the Film Academy of the Philippines should recognize outstanding film achievements annually. [2] The first awards was presented on April 27, 1983, in Manila Film Center which gave awards to the best films of 1982. It was known as the Film Academy of the Philippines Awards, shortened as FAP Awards. [3]
The Experimental Cinema of the Philippines (ECP) was a government-owned corporation of the Republic of the Philippines created to promote the growth and development of the local film industry. Created in 1982 after the first Manila International Film Festival through Executive Order 770, the ECP was primarily known as a production company. [2]
November 17 – Manila Film Center collapses, [7] killing 169 workers. November 24 – Typhoon Irma batters the northern part of the island of Luzon , killing more than 50 people. [ 5 ]