The 19th

Metro Manila Film Festival The Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) is an annual film festival held in Metro Manila, Philippines. The festival, which runs from December 25 (Christmas) through New Year's Day and into first weekend of January in the following year, focuses on ...

was held in 1993.

Reyna Films Reyna Films was a Filipino film production company managed by Armida Siguion-Reyna and her son Carlitos Siguion-Reyna in 1991. It was known for its critically acclaimed and award-winning films such as ''Hihintayin Kita sa Langit'' and '' Ligaya A ...

' ''Kung Mawawala Ka Pa'' and

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's ''May Minamahal'' shared top honors in the 1993

. ''Kung Mawawala Ka Pa'' was awarded

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and received seven other awards including the

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for

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among others. On the other hand, '' May Minamahal'' won nine awards including the

Best Actor Best Actor is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actors in a film, television series, television film or play. The term most often refers to th ...

for the second consecutive time winner

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for

Jose Javier Reyes Jose "Joey" Javier Reyes (born October 21, 1954) is a Filipino professor, writer, director, miscellaneous crew and actor. He has won awards at the Gawad Urian, Metro Manila Film Festival and Filipino Star Awards for Movies for his films, which ...

, Second Best Picture, and the coveted

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among others. This year's festival was also the first to feature short films as part of their Short Film Endowment Program, which was organized in collaboration with

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Entries

Short Film Endowment Program

* ''Anak Maynila'' - Nonoy Dadivas (6 min) * ''The Good Kisser of Manila'' - Joey Tam (14 min) * ''Isaak'' -

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(10 min) * ''Kamagong'' - Fruto Corre * ''Nene'' - Grace Amilbangsa * ''Kanlungan'' - Robert Quebral

Winners and nominees

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Multiple awards

Controversies

Winners' list leakage

During the "Gabi ng Parangal" held in the PICC Plenary Hall, December 27 of Monday night, a supposed leakage of the list of winners marred that year's awards presentation."A scandal-free Metro Manila Filmfest"
''Philstar''. Retrieved 2014-04-20.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Metro Manila Film Festival, 1993

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