Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival Presents Full-Length Directors and Student Short Films Awardees

Left to right: Raynier Brizuela, Carlo Obispo, Sigrid Bernardo,
VJ Mendoza, Mina Cruz, Kurt Soberano, and Eugene Torres,
representing the full-length productions
participating in the Puregold CinePanalo.

Something big and exciting is happening with the upcoming Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival which will feature a great mix of up-and-coming student filmmakers and established directors to create new stories through cinema. With the support of Puregold which has also ventured into entertainment, this film festival attracts these creative talents and looking forward to making this their legacy in the entertainment industry.

In a press conference held at the Artson Events Place, representatives from Puregold, the film directors, their respective producers, and other key members of their teams are presented and shared the gist of their films which some are now in the works and just in time for the festival that will be held in March 2024. The group is collectively called Kuwentong Panalo — which means that they can touch the heart and remind us of the indomitable Filipino spirit. 

Star Cinema launches its first ever podcast series ‘Listen to Love’

Star Cinema’s ‘Listen To Love’ brings hit novel ‘The Four Bad Boys and Me’ into life

In time of pandemic, the country’s leading film production outfit Star Cinema officially ventures into producing digital series with ‘Listen To Love.’

Hosted by Maymay Entrata as the Master Lovecaster DJ Zari, ‘Listen To Love’ brings well-loved romance books to another medium through Star Cinema’s way of storytelling mixed with captivating visual elements, animated illustrations and a musical soundtrack.

As Star Cinema continues to innovate, ‘Listen To Love’ marks its first ever lovecast (love + podcast) series as it will become available on Spotify as a treat to podcast listeners.

First story to be featured on ‘Listen To Love’ is the adaptation of the hit Wattpad novel by Tina Lata a.k.a. Blue Maiden, with over 300 million reads, ‘The Four Bad Boys and Me.’

Elise - Unexpectedly Beautiful In Many Ways

It has been a while since we saw a good Pinoy film recently, this is probably we got used to the same formulaic money-making plots which though it brings in the audience, it is bad for film creativity. But I've stumble upon the latest film by Regal Entertainment which sparked my interest when my friends said it was really a good movie.

Elise is part of the first wave of movies the Regal group has launched this 2019. Knowing it has a love story plot made me think that it will be just like the other love stories with a shallow story, but it was surprisingly good and probably what we need for the film industry right now.

Though the plot was simple, Bert gets to be reunited with his first love Elise yet he also went through a lot of things in life with his family, friends and even strangers he just met, the execution was really good that I never had to re-imagine the scene to make it better.  It was a mix of first love feels, effective comedy (with Victor Anastacio), and drama that is like a knife that slowly pierces into the chest as the movie progresses.