Cinema source directory

The verified free and legal sources behind Level 3, salvaged verbatim from the Phase 1 audit. Every journal, archive, book, lecture and film on this page was checked during that pass, and the status of each one is marked: free, paid, gated behind a login, or verified broken. The YouTube IDs used in the cinema lessons come from here, and every one of them was opened rather than matched by title.

Salvaged verbatim from the Phase 1 research sub-agent (2026-08-10). Complements 01c-cinema-map.md (which merged only part of this). This is the primary input for Phase 3 harvest and the Video/Download slotting. Everything below was verified during that session unless explicitly flagged.

Legend: FREE / PAID / GATED (login or institution required) / DEAD (verified broken) / UNVERIFIED

1. Open-access academic journals

Plaridel (UP College of Media and Communication), FREE, confirmed

https://www.plarideljournal.org

Verified open-access statement on their About page: “Plaridel Journal of Communication, Media, and Society provides open access to all its content.” ISSN 1656-2534. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Bi-annual. Indexed in Scopus (2018), ESCI (2016), ACI (2017), EBSCO. PDFs download directly with no login (several confirmed returning application/pdf on anonymous request).

The single most valuable item: Vol. 15 No. 2 (December 2018) is an entire special issue titled “Cinema and the Archives in the Philippines,” guest-edited by Benedict Salazar Olgado. https://www.plarideljournal.org/issue/volume-15-issue-02/

Bliss Cua Lim, “Fragility, Perseverance, and Survival in State-Run Philippine Archives”, PDF: http://www.plarideljournal.org/download/4443/
Bernadette Rose Alba Patino, “From Colonial Policy to National Treasure: Tracing the Making of Audiovisual Heritage in the Philippines”, PDF: http://www.plarideljournal.org/download/4397/
Rosemarie O. Roque, “Artsibo at Sineng Bayan”
Nick Deocampo, “Envisioning a Rhizomic Audio-Visual Archiving for the Future”, https://www.plarideljournal.org/article/envisioning-a-rhizomic-audio-visual-archiving-for-the-future/

Other Plaridel articles worth assigning:

Nick Deocampo, “Bien! Oh, Bien! Where is Philippine Film History?” 13(1), 2016, 151-157. PDF: https://www.plarideljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2016-01-Film-Criticism_02-Deocampo.pdf
Nick Deocampo, “Historiography of a ‘Lost’ Cinema” 14(1), 2017, 179-188. PDF: https://www.plarideljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-01-Deocampo.pdf, read in full. Note: it is about Cebuano cinema specifically, and contains no survival statistics, despite often being cited as if it does. It is a methodology piece on how you write the history of a cinema whose films are gone.
Adrian D. Mendizabal, “Navigating the anarchival landscape of Philippine cinema: Insights from Bliss Cua Lim’s Archival Afterlives” 21(2), 2024, 267-274. PDF: https://www.plarideljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-02-Adrian.pdf
Jose Gutierrez III, “The Realist Cinema of Lino Brocka” 14(2), 2017, http://www.plarideljournal.org/download/4016/
Andrew Leavold, “Bamboo Gods and Bionic Boys: A Brief History of the Philippines’ B Films” 11(1), 2014, https://www.plarideljournal.org/article/bamboo-gods-and-bionic-boys-a-brief-history-of-the-philippines-b-films/
Joyce Arriola, “Visual Artists as Literary Artists: Fantasy and Folklore in 1950s Komiks-to-Film Adaptations” 13(1), 2016
Laurence Marvin Castillo, “Torture in Martial Law Cinema” (2026), https://www.plarideljournal.org/article/torture-in-martial-law-cinema/
UP Film Institute “Filmography of Filipino Films” annual documents, 2004-2012, all free. Example: https://www.plarideljournal.org/article/filmography-of-filipino-films-2012/, complete year-by-year production records, extremely useful raw data.

Kritika Kultura (Ateneo), FREE, confirmed

Important practical finding: the old OJS site journals.ateneo.edu is DEAD. Its URLs return connection failures, and many DOIs and Google results still point there. The live mirror is the institutional repository: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/, issues 1 through 49 (2026), all downloadable free.

Issue 19 (2012) is effectively a Manila by Night dossier, the best free package on Bernal anywhere:

Joel David, “Film Plastics in Manila by Night”, https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss19/4
Patrick Flores, “The Long Take: Passage as Form in the Philippine Film”, https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss19/5
“Marcos, Brocka, Bernal, City Films, and the Contestation for Imagery of Nation”, https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss19/7
“Manila by Night as Thirdspace”, https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss19/8
“To Conform or Not to Conform: Re-examining the Lesbian Identity in Bernal’s…”, https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss19/6

Also: Issue 25 has “Kidlat Tahimik and the Determination of a Native Filmmaker” (https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss25/5) and Patrick Flores, “Fall of Grace: Nora Aunor as Cinema” (…/iss25/16). Issue 21/22 has Patrick Campos, “Ghostly Allegories: Haunting as Constitution of Philippine (Trans)National (Cinema) History” (…/iss21/36). Issue 28 has a forum on “The End of National Cinema in the Philippines?”

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints (Ateneo), SPLIT

Two parallel identities. The Archīum Ateneo version is FREE (DOI prefix 10.13185): https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/. The Project MUSE / JSTOR version is PAID (DOI prefix 10.1353). Always route to the archium copy.

Elvin Amerigo Valerio, review of Nick Deocampo’s Philippine Cinema and Culture 73(1), 2025, landing page https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol73/iss1/26/, free PDF https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5085&context=phstudies
Veronica Isla, review of José Capino’s Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka’s Cinema Politics 72(4), 2024, https://doi.org/10.13185/2244-1638.5023
Cherish Aileen Brillon, reviews of Patrick Campos’s The End of National Cinema 66(1), 2018 and Jasmine Nadua Trice’s City of Screens 69(4), 2021
Michael Hawkins, “Our Men in Manila: The Secret Agent Film Craze of the 1960s” 58(3)

Humanities Diliman, FREE

Hosted on SALIKSIK: UPD Journals Online, https://saliksik.upd.edu.ph (replaced the older journals.upd.edu.ph). Open access, no article processing charges. Film content is thin but current: Vol. 23 No. 1 (2026) carries Laurence Marvin Castillo’s review of Nicanor Tiongson’s Manong: The Life and Works of Gerardo de Leon. Other UPD journals on the same portal: Social Science Diliman, Review of Women’s Studies, The Archive.

Free theses, dissertations, and repository material

Bliss Cua Lim on eScholarship (UC), all FREE: “Archival Fragility: Philippine Cinema and the Challenge of Sustainable Preservation” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/47t0f9r0 · “A Brief History of Archival Advocacy for Philippine Cinema” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gx6w8ff · “Analysis and Recommendations in the wake of the 2013 Philippine Cinema Heritage Summit” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/84p4998z · “Sharon’s Noranian Turn” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6867483k
Duke University Press gives away the full introduction to Lim’s The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema (2024): https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c2-002a-a423-84e111d5b498/81dfbc7e-2e37-415f-8fba-1c98c54fafcc/978-1-4780-2573-3_601.pdf. This one PDF contains most of the citable archiving statistics.
Nadin Mai, The aesthetics of absence and duration in the post-trauma cinema of Lav Diaz (PhD, Stirling, 2015), http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/22990/1/The%20aesthetics%20of%20absence%20and%20duration%20in%20the%20post-trauma%20cinema%20of%20Lav%20Diaz%20-%20Nadin%20Mai%20%282015%29.pdf
Cinema Archipelago: A Geography of Philippine Film and the Postnational Imaginary (UNC), https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:f3b75a05-ab81-4089-a8d5-e8f48593167f
Pinoy Indie, Inc.: The Cultural Economy of Distribution and Philippine Independent Cinema (PhD, Warwick, 2017), http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/96243/1/WRAP_Theses_Lim_2017.pdf
The Struggle of the Oppressed: Lino Brocka and the New Cinema of the Philippines (UNT, 1993), https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500765/
Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies (eScholarship, free), https://escholarship.org/uc/alonfilipinxjournal. Includes “Chaos and Order in Lino Brocka’s Insiang (1976).”
Archīum Ateneo theses https://archium.ateneo.edu/theses-dissertations/ and DLSU Animo Repository https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/ (hosts Akda, open-access, with Philippine film content).
PAID/avoid: Philippine E-Journals (https://www.ejournals.ph/) is subscription-based.
WARNING: UNITAS (UST) has film scholarship, but its domain unitasust.net has lapsed and is now a gambling site. Do not link it. Access UNITAS articles only via UST directly.

2. CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art

The online edition is NOT free. It is a subscription product.

Site: https://epa.culturalcenter.gov.ph/, Film is Volume/Section 4: https://epa.culturalcenter.gov.ph/4/
An article page fetched anonymously (https://epa.culturalcenter.gov.ph/4/20/1048/, “Philippine Film”) serves zero article body text to logged-out users.
“Authorized Subscribers” are personal purchasers or institutions. No public price anywhere; /subscribe/ and /faq/ both error out. Press coverage from 2020 claiming “just sign up for free” describes a launch-period arrangement that no longer holds.
What you CAN see free: the Film section index lists all entry titles without login. Six categories: Historical Essays (Philippine Film 1897-1945 / 1946-72 / 1972-86 / 1986 onward), Forms and Types, Aspects of Film (including “Archives for Film,” “Censorship in Film”), Works: Productions, Works: Studies, Artists and Organizations. Useful as a syllabus skeleton even without the text.

Two genuinely free routes to the same content:

FREE, downloadable: the 1998 CD-ROM edition on Internet Archive, no access restriction, 885 MB zip, https://archive.org/details/ccpcd-1998
GATED (free borrow): the 1994 print edition on Internet Archive controlled-digital-lending, https://archive.org/details/ccpencyclopediao0000unse

The film volume of the print set is Philippine Film, Vol. VIII, Encyclopedia of Philippine Art, CCP, 1994.

3. Nick Deocampo’s books

His life project is a five-volume history of Philippine cinema (confirmed via his TVUP bio). Volumes 1-3 are out.

Title	Publisher	Year	Access
Short Film: Emergence of a New Philippine Cinema	Communication Foundation for Asia	1985	FREE to borrow, Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/shortfilmemergen0000deoc (the only one free digitally)
Beyond the Mainstream	Anvil	1996/97	PAID, out of print
Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines (Vol. 1)	NCCA	2003	PAID. Google Play ebook exists. National Book Award 2003
Films from a “Lost” Cinema: A Brief History of Cebuano Films	Mowelfund Film Institute	2005	PAID, scarce
Lost Films of Asia (editor)	Anvil	2006	PAID
SineGabay: A Film Study Guide	Anvil	2008	PAID. Closest to a course-companion format
Film: American Influences on Philippine Cinema (Vol. 2)	Anvil	2011	PAID. Kindle edition (ASIN B01DL6E6LI)
Eiga: Cinema in the Philippines during World War II (Vol. 3)	Anvil	2016	PAID
Early Cinema in Asia (editor)	Indiana University Press	2017	PAID; Google Books preview
Alternative Cinema	UP Press	2021	PAID (~912pp)
Keeping Memories: Cinema and Archiving in the Asia-Pacific (editor)	Ateneo UP / SEAPAVAA	2021/22	PAID
Sine Tala Vols. 1-3 (Philippine Cinema and History / and Culture / and Literacy)	Ateneo UP	2023	PAID. Confirmed via 2025 Philippine Studies review

Practical notes. None of his major volumes is legally free online except the 1985 Short Film. His distribution runs through Center for New Cinema (https://centerfornewcinema.net/books) which blocks automated access, email directly. Ateneo Press was returning HTTP 525.

Free Deocampo in his own words: the three Plaridel articles (section 1), the Frames Cinema Journal interview “A Life in the Archives” (https://framescinemajournal.com/article/a-life-in-the-archives-an-interview-with-professor-nick-deocampo/), and the video lectures below.

4. Documentaries and video (IDs verified via YouTube oEmbed unless flagged)

The three essential free documentaries

“The lost films of Philippine Cinema and the fight to save our history” (Full Documentary), ABS-CBN News, 53:16, 1 Nov 2025. VERIFIED. https://youtube.com/watch?v=nV3FhxlNfeQ, covers the 1936 Diwata ng Karagatan rediscovery in Belgium, the ~6 surviving pre-war films, Deocampo on camera. This is Richard’s documentary thesis already broadcast on television. Watch before writing.
“Ang Pagbabalik ng Ibong Adarna” (Full Documentary), ABS-CBN News, 53:16. VERIFIED. https://youtube.com/watch?v=_JQsXKZiQnw
“Visions: Cinema — Film in the Philippines” (1983), UK Channel 4, produced by Tony Rayns, with Lino Brocka interviews. Free on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/vcfitp. A genuine rarity.

Nick Deocampo on video, free

“Gunita: Mga Alaala sa Pinilakang Tabing” on TVUP (UP’s free internet TV network). VERIFIED https://youtube.com/watch?v=JycJeT9sj7M · page https://tvup.ph/?p=2115 · channel https://www.youtube.com/@TVUPph. TVUP is a completely free, underused UP resource.
GenTalks 2026: “From Loss to Recovery…”, 2:42:27, 28 Mar 2026, Manuel L Quezon University. VERIFIED https://youtube.com/watch?v=usiTc2Em-xA. His newest full lecture.
“Nick Deocampo introduces Oliver (1983)”, DaangDokyu, 7:40. VERIFIED https://youtube.com/watch?v=Osvcjz9bTmA
MASTERCLASS: Historya ng Dokyupelikula (DaangDokyu), https://youtube.com/watch?v=nfAC_nvRPNc FLAG: returned 401 on verification; may be unlisted or removed. Longer cut https://youtu.be/_7Cc64wsQYk reported but not checked.
His own films: Oliver (1983), Private Wars, Sex Warriors and the Samurai, Isaak are NOT legally streaming anywhere. Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song (1987) is on YouTube in full at https://youtube.com/watch?v=K8Z7Y3NOp9M (VERIFIED, uploader “Mark Robert”), almost certainly unauthorized: fine for research, do not embed in the course. Licensing route: Center for New Cinema by email.

FDCP Channel, FREE, better than expected

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fdcpchannel (~9.2K subs). VERIFIED live. Essentially a free oral-history archive of the industry.

Playlist: FDCP Film Talks and Talkbacks, https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP7imyE2b0ZVnV2PAxGU_V9VdaG2J7yc
Playlist: Tribute to the Legends of Philippine Cinema, https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP7imyE2b0abqg4gVjzB1ws7t5NTIAOj
Playlists: Behind the Reel S1/S2, FDCP Exclusive Interviews, A Closer Look
“Lessons from Sagip Pelikula ft. Leo Katigbak”, 48:26, Jun 2026. VERIFIED https://youtube.com/watch?v=_fPxvTnnCsQ. Post-mortem by the man who ran the restoration project.
“A Life on Film: Eddie Romero Remastered Talkback” https://youtu.be/nxeFUsoKWWY · “In Her Own Light: Charo Santos-Concio” https://youtu.be/QC77MWS2OQ4

CRITICAL WARNING, verified twice independently: fdcpchannel.ph is DEAD and the domain is now an online casino (“BETSO88”). juanflix.ph is also dead. Do not link either. The live FDCP platform is juanflix.com.ph (section 5).

DaangDokyu, FREE

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkfOFWxJA3zrVY4VZgETdwA (the @DaangDokyu handle is dead, use the channel URL). Kidlat Tahimik introducing Balikbayan #1 https://youtu.be/80aT09aP3JA · Ricky Lee introducing Trip to Quiapo https://youtu.be/WPXptiECL3w · Documentary Filmmaking 101 masterclass https://youtu.be/_9MIGc6Su-Y

Sagip Pelikula videos

There is no dedicated Sagip Pelikula YouTube channel. @sagippelikula exists but is an unrelated account (“Daily Youtube Reels”), do not link it. Real presence: https://www.facebook.com/SagipPelikula plus ABS-CBN’s own channels. Explainers: “How films are digitally restored” (Star Cinema) https://youtube.com/watch?v=cNdUfyzQlvI · “The most significant SAGIP PELIKULA restorations” (ANCX) https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ZF4vyLvjNA · “Sagip Pelikula” (Orange Magazine TV, 45:15) https://youtube.com/watch?v=2wwgfLVhlg8

Sine Sandaan (2019 centennial)

Video legacy scattered and partly lost. Full ABS-CBN telecast (unofficial re-upload, VERIFIED): https://youtube.com/watch?v=f1QhYLPQb1M · ANC coverage https://youtube.com/watch?v=jc2X2vszCTw. The “Kwentong Sandaan” tribute series appears to have vanished with the fdcpchannel.ph domain lapse. FDCP may hold it internally: a phone call worth making, not a search.

Filmmaker interviews, all free

Lav Diaz: MUBI “Emancipated Cinema” https://youtube.com/watch?v=Eyc8nrIOWvE · Criterion Closet Picks (Jan 2026) https://youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI · Austrian Film Museum on Batang West Side https://youtube.com/watch?v=axBnVtkruCM · Tagalog interview, GMA Power Talks https://youtube.com/watch?v=NGJmsOSLSRM Kidlat Tahimik: on Perfumed Nightmare https://youtube.com/watch?v=euoInE8POW0 Brocka/Bernal: “Brocka, Bernal and the City” Gina Alajar full interview, Benilde https://youtube.com/watch?v=zgcbyUWPf3I · Signos (1983), the Concerned Artists of the Philippines anti-Marcos doc VERIFIED https://youtube.com/watch?v=o3_6WQmvYBg and https://archive.org/details/signos-1983 Mike de Leon: restored Kisapmata teaser, official Citizen Jake channel https://youtube.com/watch?v=PMx8Q87kxLQ · Carlotta Films portrait https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7J3YsmlEgc Cinemalaya: https://www.youtube.com/@CinemalayaFoundationInc, trailers only. Exception: Liway (2018) posted free in full by director Kip Oebanda, VERIFIED https://youtube.com/watch?v=jVzF8xqctco

5. Where to legally watch classic Filipino films

Headline finding: much of the canon is now FREE and legal on YouTube

The rights holders are posting their own restored libraries. No geo-block, no login, full length. All IDs verified.

ABS-CBN Star Cinema, https://www.youtube.com/@ABSstarcinema, still uploading restored features as of July 2026. No “Sagip Pelikula” playlist; search the channel for FULL MOVIE (Digitally Restored).

Himala (Bernal, 1982), https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ZdnICIr0Us
Kung Mangarap Ka’t Magising (Mike de Leon, 1977), https://youtu.be/8sy5s7ReQz4
Moral (Marilou Diaz-Abaya, 1982), https://youtu.be/XrS7raUaq10
Bulaklak sa City Jail (Mario O’Hara, 1984), https://youtube.com/watch?v=E07WrvWDi3o
Oro Plata Mata (Peque Gallaga, 1982), https://youtube.com/watch?v=iokC13BjSFY
Minsa’y Isang Gamu-gamo (1976), https://youtu.be/p1EHfQt6Iwc
Banaue: Stairway to the Sky (Gerardo de Leon, 1975), https://youtube.com/watch?v=AGxVjh41n10
Plus Ikaw Ay Akin (Bernal, 1978), Haplos, Langis at Tubig, Nagalit ang Buwan sa Haba ng Gabi, Separada, Patayin sa Sindak si Barbara, and dozens of 1990s-2000s titles.

SOLAR WATCH NOW, https://www.youtube.com/@Solar_Watch_Now, Kisapmata (Mike de Leon, 1981) full, 1:33:00, https://youtube.com/watch?v=bzFQtB6fVT8 GMA Pictures, https://www.youtube.com/@GMAPictures, Karnal (Marilou Diaz-Abaya, 1983) full, https://youtube.com/watch?v=nHMxOMXkQsE Regal Entertainment, https://www.youtube.com/@RegalEntertainmentInc, Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit (Elwood Perez), https://youtube.com/watch?v=wc4rnFXpEBc · Ina Kapatid Anak VIVA Films, https://www.youtube.com/@VIVAFilms, Gumapang Ka sa Lusak (Brocka) https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tp2Hadm0TSQ · Working Girls (Bernal) https://youtube.com/watch?v=bFOD9uZy6F8 · Tinik sa Dibdib

Roughly seven canon films with zero cost and zero licensing risk. This overturns the common assumption that the canon is locked away.

JuanFlix (FDCP), FREE TIER plus very cheap paid

https://juanflix.com.ph, verified live. Free tier on registration (shorts, limited library). Premium ₱49 or ₱99/month; annual ₱349 or ₱599; pay-per-view ₱49 per film with a 7-day window. Catalog includes Nora Aunor, Bernal, Brocka, Diaz-Abaya and Ricky Lee titles. Paused September 2025, returned early 2026. Catalog is client-rendered: register a free account and inventory it manually (a 20-minute job worth doing).

Criterion Channel, PAID ($10.99/mo), US/Canada only, geo-blocked from PH

Current Philippine catalog (scraped): Manila in the Claws of Light, Insiang, Bona (Brocka); Perfumed Nightmare, Turumba (Kidlat Tahimik); Magellan (Lav Diaz, 2025); Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval); plus twelve contemporary shorts. Not there: no Mike de Leon, no Bernal, no Diaz-Abaya. The 2021 Mike de Leon retrospective has rotated off.

MUBI, PAID, one title

Perfumed Nightmare, window 15 Jan 2026 to 15 Apr 2027, https://mubi.com/en/ph/films/perfumed-nightmare. Everything else Filipino on MUBI is database-only.

iWantTFC / iWant, FREE with ads, Philippines only

Himala and Oro Plata Mata confirmed free with ads.

Kanopy, FREE with a library or university card

Perfumed Nightmare confirmed. Catalog client-rendered; check institution portal.

Rent or buy, verified prices

Perfumed Nightmare on Amazon: $0.99 rent / $2.99 buy (best value in this report). Manila in the Claws of Light on Apple TV: $3.99 rent / $14.99 buy (US only). Himala on Apple TV PH: ₱149 rent / ₱299 buy. Oro Plata Mata on Apple TV PH: ₱149 / ₱299.

https://cinemata.org, 6,098 Philippine-tagged videos, including martial-law-era documentaries rebuilt with archivist Rosemarie Roque (Community Archiving Workshop Manila, 2017, with SEAPAVAA). Examples: Ka Satur (1984) https://cinemata.org/view?m=LhHs1ccPq · Beyond the Walls of Prison (1987) https://cinemata.org/view?m=oQf73zKXL · The Politics of Detention (1984) https://cinemata.org/view?m=i0eoK5dMt. Directly on-topic for the archiving narrative and safe to link.

The gap worth putting in the documentary

Verified as legally unstreamable anywhere: Manila by Night / City After Dark (Bernal, 1980), Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang (Brocka, 1974), Batch ’81, Itim, Sister Stella L. And Insiang and Manila in the Claws of Light are not legally streaming in the Philippines at all, only on US Criterion Channel. The canon is more available to Americans than to Filipinos. That is a defensible, checkable thesis point.

Internet Archive has many of these (Insiang, Tinimbang Ka, Bayan Ko, Tatlo Dalawa Isa, Pag-asa 1951, 48 Oras 1950, Maynila 1975), but almost all are unauthorized rips. Usable for research; do not embed or link in the course. Netflix PH has no classic Filipino catalog.

6. The archiving crisis: sourced numbers

See 01c-cinema-map.md for the full merged narrative. Key anchors preserved here:

The claim that “no pre-WWII Philippine films survive” is FALSE, and Deocampo never said it. Origin of the real figure: an unpublished 2005 SOFIA/NCCA terminal report, archivist Arnulfo “Mack” Junio’s essay “Movie in My Mind,” p. 7: 350+ pre-war films, fewer than 10 preserved in original format; ~8,000 features nationally, “65% is gone.” Quoted verbatim in Bliss Cua Lim, The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema (Duke UP, 2024), introduction note 4, free PDF in section 1.
Lim’s peer-reviewed formulation: “Of more than 350 films produced before the outbreak of World War II, only 5 complete films from the American colonial period survive.” The five: Zamboanga (1937), Tunay na Ina (1939), Giliw Ko (1939), Pakiusap (1940), Ibong Adarna (1941). The sixth: Diwata ng Karagatan (1936), identified by Deocampo at Cinémathèque royale de Belgique on 28 October 2025, now the oldest surviving Filipino film and the only extant Nepomuceno film. https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2025/11/01/2484160/pre-war-filipino-film-diwata-ng-karagatan-found-belgium-now-oldest-surviving-copy · https://upd.edu.ph/deocampo-finds-oldest-filipino-film/
What genuinely IS zero (Lim, p. 2): “That no nitrate elements of a domestically produced Filipino film are known to exist is an exceptionally bleak statistic.” Probably the origin of the garbled “nothing survives” claim.
“8,000 made, ~3,000 survive” traces to a 2011 Inquirer piece by Ramon C. Nocon; Lim says it is probably inaccurate. Attribute, do not assert.
LVN 1994 basketball-court dumping (72 titles, 1,000+ cans): Clodualdo del Mundo Jr., Dreaming of a National Audio-Visual Archive (SOFIA, 2004), 16-17; recounted in Lim, CSEAS Newsletter 67 (2013) https://edit.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Bliss-Cua-Lim-NL67.pdf
Ibong Adarna’s nitrate dupe negative was destroyed ~2 years after its 2005 restoration because no facility in the country would store nitrate (Lim, Duke intro, pp. 1-2).
Sampaguita fire: the 1950 fire is confirmed (Rappler, https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/movies/239229-philippine-cinema-original-big-4/). FLAG: circulating specifics (4 January 1951, P5 million, vault contents) trace only to uncited sources. Need a 1951 newspaper. Premiere Productions: no documented vault destruction, do not assert one. “LEA Productions” is most likely a garbling of Lebran.
Sagip Pelikula: founded as ABS-CBN Film Archives 1 Jan 1994; restoration launched 2011; ~150 restored by Apr 2018, 185 by Jul 2020, 240+ at close; department shut 31 Aug 2020 after the franchise denial, reprieved, then formally ceased 31 March 2025 (announced 1 May 2025). https://entertainment.inquirer.net/608342/after-saving-240-films-abs-cbn-shuts-down-restoration-unit · https://tribune.net.ph/2025/05/01/final-frame-leo-katigbak-on-abs-cbn-film-restorations-closure. FLAG: a Lifestyle Asia piece citing “ABS-CBN shutdown in July 2024” is wrong; it was 2020.
State archives: Film Archives of the Philippines 1981-1986 (EO 640-A, Ernie de Pedro), collection lost, database destroyed by water leaks. 25 years with no state film archive, 1986 to 2011. NFAP founded January 2011 under FDCP (Briccio Santos; first head Benedict “Bono” Olgado); renamed Philippine Film Archive 2018. Official holdings 13,000+ elements / 8,000+ tapes, FLAG: philippinefilmarchive.fdcp.ph no longer resolves; reconfirm with FDCP. No permanent archive building has ever been built.
SOFIA founded 1993 by Agustin “Hammy” Sotto (not Ernie de Pedro, that mix-up is everywhere). https://sofiaphils.blogspot.com/p/about.html
Mowelfund’s pa-kino-kino (“poor man’s telecine”) practice; Mike de Leon’s 1980s Betamax transfers of LVN classics are now the last surviving copies of some titles.
Law: RA 9167 (2002) created FDCP; the entire national archive mandate is one sentence (Section 3, item 10). https://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2002/ra_9167_2002.html. There is no Philippine film heritage law.
The through-line: the Philippines has had a functioning national film archive for roughly 15 of the 129 years since cinema arrived in 1897; both state archives were killed by changes of government, not fire; the country’s best archive was privately owned by a broadcaster and died when that broadcaster lost its franchise. Lim’s term: the “anarchival condition.”

7. Film education and the cost barrier (CineLink market data)

The comparison that is the whole market

School	Program	Cost
UP Film Institute	BA Film, MA Media Studies-Film	₱0 tuition under RA 10931
Benilde (SNMA)	BA Filmmaking (ABFILM)	₱96,200/term × 3 terms ≈ ₱288,600/yr
Ateneo	BA Communication	₱143,511/semester ≈ ₱287,000/yr
FEU	BA Comm, Digital Cinema Track	₱44,154-₱61,108/semester ≈ ₱90-120k/yr
iAcademy	BA Film and Visual Effects (12 terms)	₱70-85k/term reported, unverified
Enderun	BMultimedia Arts (no film degree)	₱230-270k/semester, unverified

A Benilde or Ateneo route costs roughly ₱1.15-1.2 million in tuition over four years. UP costs ₱0 and admits a small cohort by competitive exam. Benilde tuition PDF: https://www.benilde.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Tuition-Table-of-Payment-for-Undergraduate-Programs-AY-2025-2026.pdf · FEU: https://www.feu.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IAS-tuition-and-other-fees-2nd-sem-SY2025-2026.pdf

UP Film Institute, https://filminstitute.upd.edu.ph/, created 2003. BA Film since 1984, MA since 2004. The only internationally accredited film school in the country (CILECT member). Caveat: a UP student publication reports roughly 1 in 10 UPD students no longer covered by free tuition, https://phkule.org/article/1037/1-in-10-upd-students-no-longer-covered-by-free-tuition-law/
Asia Pacific Film Institute, https://asiapacificfilminstituteedu.com/, TESDA-registered, est. 2004. Its “A La Carte Program” (individual courses) is the closest existing competitor to a modular non-degree course. Tuition not published; the “₱15,000 average” on aggregator sites is meaningless, do not cite.
Mowelfund Film Institute, https://www.mfi.com.ph/, est. 1979, historic training ground of the independent generation. Fees not published, web presence unmaintained (several 404s). Scholarship form live: https://form.jotform.com/230742629608460. Still active as of a June 2026 FDCP partnership. Call them.
UST has no dedicated film degree. PHSA (free full scholarship) has no film specialization. IAFT Cebu and First Academy: no usable published pricing.

Ricky Lee’s screenwriting workshop, FREE, and the demand number is the story

https://www.rickylee.ph/workshops · rickyleescriptwritingworkshop@gmail.com

Free since 1982. Ten Sunday sessions, in person, Quezon City. 30 participants per batch. Batch 30 Dec 2025-Mar 2026; Batch 31 May-Aug 2026; Batch 32 announced.
2,617 applicants for 60 slots. A 2.3% acceptance rate. Over 200 people assessed as fully qualified and still turned away.
December 2025 backlash over veterans taking slots; Lee’s response: about half of each batch are newcomers, mixing is deliberate. https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2025/12/09/306098/ricky-lee-defends-scriptwriting-workshop-selection/
Alumni include Lav Diaz, Jeffrey Jeturian, Pepe Diokno, Dwein Baltazar.
Ricky Lee is 78 (b. 19 March 1948), National Artist (2022), still active. He announced an online version in December 2025. As of August 2026 it has not launched.

The gap, quantified with a public paper trail: the only free national screenwriting education in the Philippines runs on the personal capacity of one 78-year-old man, in person, on Sundays, capped at 30 people, with a 2.3% acceptance rate and a promised online edition that does not exist.

FDCP programs

Hub: https://fdcp.ph/programs/education

Academic Film Society, free, institutions only, individuals cannot apply.
Student Film Assistance Program, ₱30,000-₱50,000 thesis-film grants, requires enrolment at an AFS-registered school.
FDCP Film School, individuals cannot apply; LGUs/colleges request via letter of intent 60-90 days ahead. Some programs charge.
Libong Kulay Cinematography Workshop (June 2026, Atimonan, mentor Lee Briones-Meily), confirmed FREE. The model for their regional free-training format.
Sine Kabataan and IFSAP program pages both 404’d. IFSAP (funds Filipinos attending international labs) is worth chasing with FDCP directly.
Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP) is a separate legacy body; no evidence of an active 2026 training program. Treat as dormant.

Other free or cheap

Cinemalaya https://www.cinemalaya.org/, short film competition free to enter; grant amounts not disclosed. QCinema https://qcinema.ph/, QCShorts grants exist; details unverified. Palanca Awards https://palancaawards.com.ph/, has a Dulang Pampelikula (Screenplay) category, the only national screenplay competition of its kind; historically free to enter.
Cultural institutes are exhibition, not training: Goethe-Institut (KinoFest, free Goethe on Demand), Japan Foundation Manila (JFF, free JFF Theater), Alliance Française (Le Ciné-Club). Good for a film-literacy module.
International: Berlinale Talents (~200 places/yr, 2027 deadlines 19 Aug and 2 Sep 2026), CHANEL x BIFF Asian Film Academy (24 places/yr, 454 alumni from 35 countries since 2005), TorinoFilmLab.

The clearest gap

There is no structured, free, Philippine-context film education online. No Filipino MasterClass, no national film MOOC, no FDCP open courseware. Every free training route in the country is in-person in Metro Manila, capped at 30 people, school-gated, or competition-gated.

Things to verify before publishing

PFA holdings (13,000+ elements / 8,000+ tapes), source domain offline. Reconfirm with FDCP.
Sampaguita fire specifics, only the 1950 fire itself is sourced.
“LEA Productions”, almost certainly Lebran Pictures.
Zamboanga discovery year, 2003 vs 2004, sources conflict.
FAP founding year, 1981 vs 1982; Lim uses both.
DaangDokyu Deocampo masterclass ID nfAC_nvRPNc returned 401. Every other video ID verified clean.
Tuition for APFI, Mowelfund, iAcademy, IAFT Cebu, UST, Enderun, none published.
CCP EPA subscription price, not published anywhere. Email CCP.
Grant amounts for Cinemalaya shorts, QCShorts, Sine Kabataan, IFSAP, Palanca, none published on reachable pages.

Three actions before Phase 3

Register a free JuanFlix account and inventory the catalog (client-rendered, nobody has catalogued it publicly, ₱49/film is the affordable answer for learners).
Watch the ABS-CBN News lost-films documentary (Nov 2025) before writing, it states the documentary’s thesis on television already.
Two phone calls, not searches: FDCP about the Kwentong Sandaan tribute videos (may survive only on internal drives), and Center for New Cinema about Deocampo’s films and books.