Nicanor Tiongson unveiled his latest book, Manong: The Life and Works of Gerardo De Leon, on October 8, 2025, at Red Carpet Cinema 3, Shangri-La Mall. The event, hosted by UP Press, highlighted the impact of National Artist for Film Gerry De Leon on Philippine cinema. A monumental moment for cinema and cultural memory unfolded […]
In celebration of Women’s Month 2024, the University of the Philippines (UP) Korea Research Center and UP Film Institute present KOREAN ARTHOUSE CINEMA with the featured film The Widow (미망인) (1955). The Widow (1955) is the first and last feature directed by the late Park Nam-ok, South Korea’s first woman filmmaker. Park was pregnant […]
The University of the Philippines (UP) Film Institute is very pleased to inform the public that Volume 8 of PELIKULA: A Journal of Philippine Cinema and Moving Image, is now available. Click on the image below to download Volume 8 for free. About the Volume Julie Lluch’s Piscean Deluge (1990) pictures a woman traversing troubled […]
The University of the Philippines Diliman College of Mass Communication will be awarding actor, satirist, and advertising creative Manuel Urbano Jr., popularly known on television, film and the internet as “Mr. Shooli”, this year’s Gawad Plaridel on October 11, 2023, at 2 pm, at the UP Film Institute Film Center’s Cine Adarna. Urbano Jr. will […]
It’s National Women’s Month with UPFI Film Center screenings this March. Films in exhibition spanning studio releases, full-length docus and student works all underscore the imperative of diversity and inclusivity that has propelled women to be masters of the house and craft of cinema.
In its second year, the UP Film Institute brings you SineMaestra: Women’s Masterclasses! Enroll in our 5 masterclasses as we celebrate Women’s Month this coming March. Dip in various aspects of the film scene like planning, shooting, and promoting films! SineMaestra is open to the public on a first come, first served basis.
Five highly accomplished communicators will receive the 2019 Glory Award given to outstanding University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UPCMC) alumni. To be recognized at the college’s alumni homecoming are Carolyn Arguillas for journalism; Nona Andaya-Castillo and Samira Gutoc for social advocacy; Jeffrey Jeturian for film and visual communication; and Florencio “Floy” Quintos for performing arts.
In celebration of UP College of Mass Communication (CMC) Week, the Office of Research and Publication and UP Film Institute present a lecture by Daniel Rudin on People/Power: Counter/Publics of Work, Cinema, and Video this coming April 27 (Saturday) at the Film Studio, UPFI Media Center bldg., UP Diliman Q.C.
In celebration of the National Literature Month, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the U.P. Film Institute will hold a conference entitled Interseksiyon: Panitikan, Pelikula, at Wikang Filipino. The conference, directed by film scholar Patrick F. Campos, surveys the rich intertwinings between Filipino literature and cinema, from its inception a hundred years ago until the present. It will also try to show how these interactions across the disciplines helped popularize and spread Filipino language. Films that testify to these intersections will also be shown at the UPFI Film Center – Cine Adarna.
With the alarming rise of fascist regimes in the world, Nick Deocampo gathers together a number of films in order to interrogate the role that cinema can play in periods of autocratic rule.
The UP College of Medicine (then known as the Philippine Medical School) opens. It predates the opening of the University proper by 3 years.
