The 2022 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) is the 48th edition of the annual

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 ...

held in Metro Manila and throughout the Philippines. It is being organized by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). During the festival, no foreign films are shown in Philippine theaters (excluding IMAX and 4D theaters).

Entries

Feature films

The Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) Executive Committee announced the first four official entries in July 2022 which were entered as script submissions. The last four entries was announced after the submission period for finished films ended on September 30, 2022. On October 20, 2022, the last four films was announced by MMFF Executive Committee. These four additional films are finished films selected within the record high of 22 films that were submitted. Now on its 48th edition, this year theme is "Balik Saya sa MMFF 2022".

Parade of Stars

The Parade of Stars, the traditional motorcade of floats featuring the eight official entries, for the 2022 MMFF was held in

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on December 21, 2022. The route traversed

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from

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to the

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. The route is long. The parade ended on

Awards

The Gabi ng Parangal () of the 2022 Metro Manila Film Festival was held at the

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on December 27, 2022. Viva Live was the producer of the program which was hosted by Giselle Sanchez,

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, and

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. The criteria for judging was based on a definition by

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for film. Jurors underwent a

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but were briefed on the Romero criteria and the MMFF Executive Committee tallied the votes. The board of jurors include:

Laurice Guillen Laurice Ilagan Guillen-Feleo (born January 31, 1947) is a Filipino actress, film and television director, and college professor. Early life and acting career Guillen studied at St. Theresa's College, Cebu City, earned an AB English degree before ...

(head), Jose Arturo Garcia (cochair),

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(

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chair), Dan Fernandez, Raquel Villavicencio, Ino Manalo, Alex Cortez, Noah Tonga, Victor Pablo Trinidad and Lucky Blanco.

Major awards

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). Nominations are also listed if applicable.

Other awards

*Manay Ichu Vera-Perez Maceda Memorial Award –

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*Phoenix Stars of the Night –

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and

Nadine Lustre Nadine Alexis Paguia Lustre (, ; born October 31, 1993) is a Filipino actress and singer. She rose to fame after playing the lead role of Eya Rodriguez in the film '' Diary ng Panget'' (2014). Lustre has since starred in the television serie ...

Multiple awards

Multiple nominations

Box office gross

MMDA Chairman Atty. Romando Artes stated that the eight entries of 2022 Metro Manila Film Festival reaches a combined box office gross of during the official run of the film festival, with the actual box office gross figure deemed "acceptable in the industry practice". The top four grossing films in alphabetical order was also released namely: ''Deleter'', ''Family Matters'', ''Labyu with an Accent'', and ''Partners in Crime''. He added that the inaugural edition of Metro Manila Summer Film Festival starting April 8, 2023.

References

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