AFTER GIVING the Film Development Council Chairman and President Mary Liza B. Diño the boot, the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) announced on Wednesday that it had added new members to its Executive Committee (Execom) — Director and Cinemalaya Foundation, Inc. President Laurice Guillen and Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) President and Chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Arsenio “Nick” Lizaso.
FILM DEVELOPMENT Council Chairman and CEO, Mary Liza B. Diño, has been removed from the Executive Committee (Execom) of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) after the festival’s Chairman Danilo D. Lim accused her of trying to take the festival away from the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and bringing it under the management of the FDCP (Film Development Council of the Philippines).