A Talk from Pepe Diokno | Who Killed Philippine Cinema?



The talk of Pepe Diokno is about the death of Philippine cinema, who is to blame, why we should support our film industry and how Filipino films are coming back to life.
According to Pepe Diokno, budgets killed it. He blames the government’s 30% tax and general lack of support from both government and Filipino themselves. But still he remains hopeful that our industry will be like Korea’s which allocate budgets for filmmakers, which encourages tourism and support their products.
I quite agree to Pepe’s statement that the budget killed the Philippine cinema. Well honestly, the price of the goods in our country keeps on rising.
He cited the importance of cinema, which is the country’s record of its culture and identity. These indie films according to Pepe Diokno are vehicles to promote change in a country.




I personally think that of course, pirated DVDs also killed Philippine cinema.




I think that some filmmakers should change their style in making films. Filipino films today are all about love triangles, story of rich and poor blah blah. They should change their concept, in line with what the audience wants to watch.
I quite appreciate some films that show documentaries.
I can’t blame the audience if they don’t patronize Filipino films because it is not their fault if they don’t want the concept of the film.
I, myself, am not fond of our own film. I’m more into International films. But that mentality of mine, has changed since I’ve started to watch some Indie films. There are still awesome indie films, though not popular, are still a big catch.

Some of these films are:
The Road, Muro-ami, Sana Dati, Nuwebe, Singko, Dekada ’70, Moments of Love, and many more



Try watching some Cinemalaya films too!
If movie tickets were offered in a lesser price, I think many people will watch more films, not only international ones but also our very own films.
I think that we can help Filipino films by watching some and giving our feedbacks. 

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