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Throughout the 1980s, the Philippines ranked among the top ten film-producing countries in the world. But the unstable nature of the country is reflected in the film industry. Numerous coup attempts, civil strife and an unstable economy have kept down investment in movies; while production costs and taxes have spiraled. The
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Jan 1, 2019 · Book PDF Available. Philippine Cinema and the Cultural Economy of Distribution. January 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03608-9. Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Link. ISBN:...
- Michael Kho Lim
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Nov 13, 2015 · Conference Paper PDF Available. Perceived Status of the Filipino Film Industry: Implications for Media Education. November 2015. Conference: International Conference on Language Learning...
Dec 19, 2018 · Download chapter PDF. As the discussion on film distribution economies is put to a close, this chapter zooms out from the inner workings of the film value chain to show the big picture of the Philippine film industry by looking at the interrelationship of the industry, the state, and cultural policy.
- Michael Kho Lim
- 2019
- 1 Spring Films
- 2 Origin8 Media
- 3 TBA Studios
- 4 Reality Entertainment
- 5 Quantum Films
Spring Films was established in 2009 by a group of friends with the same passion for cinema—director Joyce Bernal, actor Piolo Pascual, and talent manager Erickson Raymundo. They have always had a mainstream orientation but also wanted to do “braver” and more edgy films than what mainstream is already producing, but still mainstream. This means tha...
Like Spring Films, Origin8 Media started out as an informal group of eight friends, who are writers, directors, and producers. Most of their works have been part of the Cinemalaya festival, and they wanted to form a bigger group and “graduate from making Cinemalaya movies” (Lang 2015). Co-founder Tammy Dinopol also thinks that it is a natural progr...
TBA Studios aims to be the premier independent production company in the Philippines. Its story began when Fernando Ortigas formed Tuko Film Productions, a small production house to handle his personal animation project in 2008. Coming from a prominent family engaged in the real estate business, Ortigas describes himself as a frustrated writer who ...
A much earlier entrant to the industry is Reality Entertainment. It operates outside the playing field of major studios but runs its productions like a studio because the founders have a very clear vision: they want to be the “new” mainstream. In 2002, Erik Matti was directing Prosti for Regal Films, while the supervising producer assigned to him w...
Quantum Films was first established as MLR Films by Josabeth “Joji” Alonso in 2004. She is very passionate about cinema and a lawyer by profession. Under MLR Films, Alonso has produced two notable films, Minsan Pa (One Moment More, 2004) and Kubrador (The Bet Collector, 2006), both directed by Jeffrey Jeturian. After realising that using the initia...
- Michael Kho Lim, Michael Kho Lim
- 2019
Philippine Cinema and the Cultural Economy of Distribution. Book. © 2019. Download book PDF. Download book EPUB. Overview. Authors: Michael Kho Lim. Advances the discourse of film distribution economy by expounding on the formal and semi-formal film distribution practices in a developing Asian country like the Philippines.
Jan 11, 2021 · The growth of cinema, introduced to the Philippines as early as 1897 and with the first local production taking place in 1919, was built over the first half of the 20th century into a major motion picture industry (Deocampo, 2017). Despite a halt to production under Japanese occupation during the Second World War, film studios such as ...
