SDFC’s Perspective Film Series is proud to present the multi-awarded film Mariquina starring Ricky Davao and Mylene Dizon. The film will be followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Milo Sogueco. This is an in-person event to be held at the Mingei International Museum. Light dinner and drinks will be served. Early bird tickets are now available for purchase through June 1st. Click the button below for more info.

Free to SDFC Members! Not yet a member? Visit www.sdfilipinocinema.org/membership to apply and start enjoying your year-round perks including free and discounted tickets to select San Diego Filipino Film Festival events this October. Sign up today!

Persepective Film Series: MARIQUINA is brought to you by our following Partners:

Presenting Partners: California Arts Council and The California Endowment

Co-Presenting Partner: House of the Philippines

Community Partner: Smiles of Eastlake

San Diego Filipino Cinema would like to invite you to the Meet & Greet event of the highly anticipated feature documentary, A Long March to be attended by filmmaker TS Botkin and producers Amanda Upson and Benito Bautista at the San Diego Automotive Museum in Balboa Park on May 18, 2022 at 7:30 PM. Light dinner will be catered by Leaf It B.

Please click the button below to learn more and to reserve your spot. SDFC Members will receive their Eventbrite registration code to enter this Meet and Greet event for free.

The Meet & Greet event will be preceded by the San Diego premiere of A Long March at the GI Film Festival by KPBS where the film is nominated for Best Documentary and Best First Time Director. Film screening will be held at the Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park at 5:00 PM. Click this link to buy tickets to the film screening.

Thank you to AARP and The California Endowment for making our Meet & Greet event with the A Long March film team possible.

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It’s that time of the year!

The regular deadline for SDFFF film submissions is coming up for our San Diego Filipino Film Festival this year. Regular deadline is on May 16, 2022. We accept film submissions exclusively via our FilmFreeway fest page.

We celebrated our inaugural SDFFF last year with the critically acclaimed film FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK by Bobbi Jo Hart as our Opening Film at the newly transformed Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park and with our Closing Film The Fabulous Filipino Brothers by Dante Basco at the AMC Theaters in Otay Ranch Town Center. Award-winning film creatives including cinematographer Carlo Mendoza, writer/director Kayla Galang, actresses Maria Isabel Lopez, and Mara Lopez were among the few who graced the festival. The whole Basco family celebrated in-person with the audience for two nights of sold out screenings of Dante Basco’s feature debut The Fabulous Filipino Brothers.

Be part of our growing film movement that highlights and celebrates Filipino representation, culture, and unique perspectives through film. Save the dates on your calendar: SDFFF will be held from October 13th through 18th later this year during Filipino American History Month.

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San Diego Filipino Film Festival is now accepting film submissions for its 2nd year! Join our annual centerpiece event that features compelling films, meet and greet with filmmakers, film workshops, and more!

Early bird deadline for submissions is on April 16, 2022 and regular deadline is on May 16th. Save on film entry fees by submitting today!

What’s in store for filmmakers with officially selected films at SDFFF:

Filmmakers get to enjoy a nightly meet and greet with their fellow artists over local eats and drinks hosted by the festival

Meet our diverse community of film lovers who enjoy watching compelling films and meeting fellow film enthusiasts

Attend film workshops and panels with award-winning Filipinx filmmakers

Enjoy events with amazing musical performances and yummy eats by local Filipinx chefs

And more!

San Diego Filipino Cinema goes international this week with Filipinx Filmmakers Week on the largest global platform that celebrates the next generation of Filipino artists from around the world!

Join us in celebrating Filipinx films and filmmakers starting today through Friday at 8pm PST by tuning into MYX Global for five days of programming featuring curated short films from our inaugural San Diego Filipino Film Festival last year.

Watch a diverse array of compelling stories that amplify and celebrate Filipino representation, culture, and perspectives through cinema, and deal with topics on our complex identities and global issues.

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @sdfilipinocinema as we unveil the previews for our upcoming daily lineups this week! ✨

Check your local cable TV listings for showtimes or click the button below to watch online on Myx.

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Visit sdfff.org to check out our inaugural San Diego Filipino Film Festival! Or follow us on Instagram and Facebook for updates @sdfilipinocinema. SDFFF 2022 website coming soon – stay tuned!

Thank you to everyone who attended the virtual screening of Lupita Concio’s digitally restored and remastered Minsa’y Isang Gamu-Gamo (Once a Moth) and accompanying Q&A last week, from June 23-June 25!

SDFC would especially like to extend our gratitude to the award-winning writer of the film, Marina Feleo Gonzalez, and Philippine cinema icon, Gloria Sevilla, for their time, reflection, and insight provided by each during their Q&A interviews. Marina Feleo Gonzalez stated in her interview with us that “a film is forever” — a description apt for Minsa’y Isang Gamu-Gamo in 2021. For although the film was made in 1976, its courageous critique of US colonialism in the Philippines is a message which resonates far beyond the borders of the Philippines and to the present day.

This screening was in partnership with The Filipino Channel and ABS-CBN Film Restoration/Sagip Pelikula. Community Partner: County of San Diego Filipino-American Employees’ Association. We are deeply honored to have partnered with amazing organizations who are dedicated to bringing important stories to our community. Maraming salamat! 💛

We hope to see everyone at our future events! To remain up to date on all SDFC events and news, be sure to sign up for our SDFC E-Newsletter.

Join San Diego Filipino Cinema’s inaugural San Diego Filipino Film Festival this year! SDFFF will bring together compelling film gems made by global Filipino filmmakers and film lovers from our amazing diverse communities in San Diego.

New Americans POV will highlight two documentary short films made by BIPOC filmmakers Peter Okojie (Breaking Forth) and Drama Del Rosario (In This Family) in commemoration of AAPI Heritage Month this May. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A session to talk about the filmmakers’ personal process in crafting their films and the unique challenges they face as new Americans. 

This program is in partnership with New Americans Museum and is made possible by HomeLight and the NTC Foundation with support from Bank of Southern California and Liberty Station retail partner The Seligman Group and The Seligman Family Foundation.

May 29, 2021

5PM PST: Film Screening

6PM PST: Q&A Session with the filmmakers

Q&A/discussion will be moderated by New Americans Museum’s Executive Director Linda Caballero Sotelo and SDFC Executive Director Benito Bautista. Q&A facilitation and introduction by filmmaker and dance artist Trixi Agiao.

We are thrilled to co-present Fan Girl

by award-winning filmmaker Antoinette Jadaone

at this year’s  Spring Showcase!

Email us at info@sdfilipinocinema.org for more info and to reserve your discounted tickets!

College student Jane’s obsession with Philippine celebrity heartthrob Paulo Avelino –

half of the country’s most popular love team – leads her to hide at the back of his

pick-up truck and follow him “home.” She ends up in an unfamiliar house in an unfamiliar place

with an unfamiliar Paulo Avelino, the idol she thought she knew from head to foot, heart and soul.

They say, never meet your heroes, and Jane finds out exactly why

Villa Manila in partnership with San Diego Filipino Cinema brings you

The Unscene, a special night of delicious Filipino Food + Boba Tea

and local Filipino American short films on April 27 at 7:30pm.

This is an outdoor cinema event at Villa Manila’s outdoor area you don’t want to miss!

Come support our local Filipino American creatives/filmmakers and their short films

while enjoying San Diego’s finest Filipino Cuisine at Villa Manila Restaurant.

SOLD OUT. JOIN THE WAITLIST*

Good Vibes music by: DJ Jondoe

Hosted by James Camanyag, Creative Director/Owner of Cypher, a multi-disciplinary Creative Production Collective in San Diego.

Q&A moderation by filmmaker and SDFC’s Executive Director Benito Bautista.

For more info, please visit bit.ly/theunscene

*Join the waitlist! Email us the name of the attendees and your meal of choice (see our Eventbrite page) by April 25th.

Join us at our Cine Social: Expression Session virtual mixer and open mic night on February 18, 2021 at 6:30pm PST.

This Cine Social is San Diego Filipino Cinema‘s third mixer to date, connecting creatives and film lovers’ alike to encourage valuable creative connections and collaborations. Through this mixer, we’ve been able to connect creatives who are now currently working on film projects and other creative endeavors born out of their Cine Social mixing. Join us and make new friends and meaningful connections!

Cine Social will be held via Zoom with our amazing MCs The FilAm Film Collective’s Trixi Agiao, Edrian Pangilinan, and Marissa Roxas! With special guests, Formento+Formento, Eric Joshua Eusebio, Kaitlyn Fae and Rachel Cauilan of Rue, and Summer Sevilla. To learn more, please visit bit.ly/cinesocialmixer2021

Buy tickets now to join, or get in free when you sign up for the open mic! Deadline to sign up is Feb. 8.

Now Extended Through January 31st, 2021!

November is finally here, and we cannot wait to open our doors safely for everyone to see and experience what we have in store for you! If you are yearning to have a live, in-person art experience, visit Bonita Museum and Cultural Center and check out our Sine Kwento: Filipino Stories in Film.

Sine Kwento Art Exhibit Features:

Tela Nobela: Stories on Fabric Community Art Installation

The late great Cesar Hernando‘s behind-the-scenes photographs from iconic Filipino films in the 70s and 80s

Film stills and posters of works by Filipino iconic filmmakers Lino Brocka, Ishmael Bernal, Kidlat Tahimik, Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Lav Diaz, and more!

Film artifacts from Lokal Shorts films by San Diego emerging filmmakers will also be on display.

For COVID-19 safety measures, the museum requires visitors to wear masks and observe social distancing. Limited entry.

Museum visits are by appointment only due to recent COVID-19 San Diego County guidelines.

Museum hours: Wednesday to Saturday | 10am – 4pm. Free entrance to the public.

Tela Nobela: Stories on Fabric

COMMUNITY ART INSTALLATION

Cesar Hernando (1946-2019; Manila) —screenwriter, art teacher, graphic designer, production designer, director, overall creative collaborator and yes, photographer, too—has inhabited the movie set for close to five decades now. With his multifarious involvements in Philippine cinema, no one has captured the milieu quite like his photographs…Over the years, Hernando had amassed a treasure trove of images, that, when pieced together, offer rarely seen perspectives of Filipino moviemaking, as well as a history of Filipino cinema. He worked exclusively with the greats, which added even more importance to the pictures he took. Source: Luzviminda.ph