MMFF 2025 opens submissions for film entries

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN for this year's Metro Manila Film Festival, with the latest deadlines for finished films set on September 15th. Taking to their socials, the local film fest shared details about this year's submissions:

MMFF 2025 Deadlines:

• Letter Of Intent — April 30th, 2025, 5:00 PM
• Finished Scripts — May 15th, 2025, 5:00 PM
• Finished Films — September 15th, 2025, 5:00 PM

Interested filmmakers are encouraged to download the relevant forms using this Google Drive link and submit their entries to MMFF's official emails: mmff@mmda.gov.ph and mmffsecretariat@gmail.com.

According to the festival schedule included in the GDrive link, MMFF will make their official selection in two batches: the first four according to finished scripts on May 30th and the other four according to the finished films on September 30th.

Last year's festival screened films such as The Kingdom, And the Breadwinner Is..., and Espantaho. Earlier this year, the festival brought almost all the entries (except Zig Dulay's Green Bones and Pepe Diokno's Isang Himala) to the States with the 2025 Manila International Film Festival, which serves as something of a global annex to the film festival we celebrate here every holiday season.

MMFF 2025 kicks off later this year in October with a mediacon and early December with the festival's much-beloved Parade of Stars.