₱5M grants await filmmakers at CinePanalo Film Festival 2026

The following 2026 CinePanalo Movie Competition is about to make historical past with document -breaking manufacturing festivals for Filipino filmmakers.

Competition organizers mentioned in an announcement that ₱ 5 million might be given to every of the seven administrators of full function movies, whereas 20 pupil movie makers every obtain ₱ 200,000 to make their quick movies.

Competition chairman and senior advertising and marketing supervisor Ivy Hayagan-Piedad mentioned that growing the inventory market quantities is in accordance with the imaginative and prescient of Cinepanalo to interrupt each border.

“Cinepanalo is our launch platform for the brand new breed of Filipino cinema,” she mentioned. “By offering extra funds, we will now problem our filmmakers to interrupt each restrict of story, type and style.”

Hayagan-Piedad additionally emphasised that inventive freedom is inspired on this 12 months’s version.

“All narrative and style restrictions might be canceled. Craft and Excellency would be the new middle of the pageant. Cinepanalo due to this fact encourages individuals to discover a broader vary of tales and kinds for his or her entries, from mind scriffers to whimsical younger romances to advanced tales with advanced tales,” they report.

Functions for the whole class are open to skilled and novice filmmakers aged 18 and older. candidates should submit their submissions on 10 September 2025, with the final seven recipients of the P5 million subsidies that might be revealed on October 25, 2025.

Scholar movie makers, alternatively, have till November 25, 2025 to use for the quick movie class, offered that they’re registered within the Educational 12 months 2025-2026. The scholar’s final line -up might be introduced on February 1, 2026.

The finished movies are premiered on the CinePanalo Movie Competition from 2026, deliberate for 7 to 18 August 2026, in Gateway Cineplex 18. They’ll take part within the ranks of a lot -praised titles of earlier editions, together with “Below a Piaya Moon” and “Salum”.

Utility varieties for the pageant are accessible by way of these hyperlinks: Category over the full length And Student Shorts. /EDV