“Cine Filipina” is FDCP’s initiative to celebrate National Women’s Month in the form of film screenings, panel discussions, and other activities throughout March on the FDCP Channel online streaming platform. For 2021, with the theme “Juana sa Gitna ng Pagbabago”, 10 women-centric films bannered the lineup, together with 3 free film screenings, 10 short features from Cinemarya, 2 panel discussions, an opening event, and a closing event.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprising was a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement.

FDCP Channel aims to be one with the LGBTQIA+ community in celebrating the Philippine Pride month through PelikuLAYA : LGBTQIA+ Film Festival is a virtual film festival that aims to uphold the essence of celebrating Pride Month in the form of LGBTQIA+-centric virtual film screenings, panel discussions, and events.

The Film Ambassadors’ Night is the Film Development Council of the Philippines’ major annual event that honors Filipino filmmakers, film workers, and film projects that have earned international accolades and awards in festivals and markets in world cinema in the previous year. During FAN, we also take the occasion to grant the Camera Obscura Awards, the highest honor granted by the FDCP to a filmmaker, film worker, a pillar of the film industry, or a film project.

CineMarya is a Women’s Film Festival that will challenge Filipino filmmakers in creating relevant women-centered short-films that intend to inspire and empower women and men alike to make gender sensitization the way of life of every Filipino.

The SineSaySay Documentary Film Lab and Showcase is a project of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) that aims to empower documentary filmmaking and filmmakers in the country. With the words sine (film) and saysay (meaning), the program combines the power and beauty of filmmaking with meaningful and real stories of our people, society, and the world.

On February 18 to 22, 2019, the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) partnered with the Embassy of France in Manila and the Animation Council of the Philippines (ACPI) to collaborate with the Audiovisual Cooperation Department for Southeast Asia of the French Embassy in Singapore, Annecy, and the Annecy International Animation Film Market (MIFA) and bring Animation du Monde in Manila.

The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) furthered its program to encourage Filipino filmmakers to create films that would shed light to important causes such as HIV and AIDS in the Philippines. Together with EON Foundation, LoveYourself PH and Directors’ Guild of the Philippines (DGPI), we launched the CineSpectra 2019 Short Film Festival with the theme: Your Judgement, Their Life