The Taguig City government has started making significant projects centered on Filipino arts and culture with the opening of a gallery at the Bonifacio Global City featuring cinematic snippets of eight movie entries for this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival.
Mayor Lino Edgardo Cayetano urged the public to visit the MMFF Gallery which was formally opened last Monday at the cinema area of the Central Square in BGC.
Cayetano and Vice Mayor Ricardo Cruz, along with a number of Taguig City councilors, experienced the exhibit first-hand. Also in attendance at the tour was the president of the Mowelfund (Movie Workers Welfare Foundation), Boots Anson-Roa.
The MMFF exhibit is open to the public until Dec. 30, 2019. This is the way to promote MMFF and also to show the support of Taguig City to the festival.
Last Monday, the city, in close coordination with the Metro Manila Development Authority, hosted the MMFF Parade of Stars.
Cayetano said the MMFF is only one of many undertakings highlighting Taguig’s commitment to culture and the arts.
In his speech during the Parade of Stars, the city chief executive drew the audience’s attention to the Mercado del Lago where local artists perform on Fridays and Saturdays. He encourages theater groups to hold showcases at the amphitheater.
An arts center and exhibit hall will also soon open within the Taguig Lakeshore Park complex.
Films can now be screened in more government facilities. The five-story Center for The Elderly features a “mini lazy boy theater.”
By the end of 2020, Cayetano said the city will have inaugurated six multilevel community centers fitted with minitheaters. For all these facilities, the city is looking to buy or rent libraries of content.
“In 2020, we are also opening the Taguig Film Development Office,” the mayor revealed. “Through this, we can assist producers in filming our beautiful city and created additional livelihood for Taguigeños.”
“Again, we look for a deeper and longer-lasting partnership with MMFF, MMDA. Thank you. We wish everyone the best of luck,” said Cayetano.