THE Manila city government entered into a memorandum of agreement with Solar Entertainment for the holding in September 2024 of the ‘Sinag-Maynila 2024,” a weeklong festival that will feature local movies.
Present at the signing ceremony held in City Hall were Mayor Honey Lacuna, Vice Mayor Yul Servo, Secretary to the Mayor Marlon Lacson, Solar President and CEO Wilson Tieng, director Brillante Mendoza, Congressman Irwin Tieng and Manila’s tourism chief Charlie Dungo.
Lacuna vowed that the city will support in whatever way possible the said independent festival themed, ‘Sine Lokal, Pang-International’ slated to be held in chosen theaters in Manila from September 4 to 8, 2024.
Dungo said the agreement signing coincides with the city’s celebration of tourism month.
According to the mayor, the government of Manila is providing the local film industry the needed boost to revive the status that it enjoyed before the pandemic.
For his part, Wilson said that all entries are being accepted and that the deadline set is on July 24, 2024.
He said that admission fees in participating cinemas will be lowered to only P200 in order to encourage more people to patronize the movies that will be included in the festival.
Wilson explained that their choice of Manila as the venue for the festival is due to the fact that he himself is a true-blue Manilan, having been born and raised in Binondo, adding that his nephew, Irwin Tieng, is a Congressman representing the fifth district of Manila and also a former councilor of Manila.
