Mowelfund Tour

I spent my free day with my Cinema 101 classmates and professor at Mowelfund located in Cubao, Quezon City. Movie Workers Welfare Foundation, Inc. (Mowelfund) is a non-profit social welfare that helps movie workers. Mowelfund is also home to Filipino movie collections like props, costumes, articles and the like. The Mowelfund museum tells the history of the film industry in the Philippines.

It is always refreshing to have an out-of-the-campus activity like this, so I was glad, despite our hectic schedule, that we went out of the room to discuss more about the Philippine film industry. 

We first went into the Fernando Poe Jr. mini museum where we discussed little about him, and about Mowelfund. According to our tour guide, Sir Alfie, Jospeh Estrada founded Mowelfund. He said, Mowelfund is like SSS, is just that Mowelfund is exclusively for movie workers. He also told us that a huge percentage of the earnings of the annual Metro Manila Film Festival goes to Mowelfund.

We also watched a short film that was produced by the workshoppers of Mowelfund. After the introduction,

when then proceeded in our tour.

Here our some of our pictures taken at Mowelfund. 

Thanks to Shanelle San Pedro and  Vaughnette Erika Salimbagat for the photos!

Me with friends

My favorite of all is the horror room! Here we are pretending to be scared and all...

Me and friends in the Walk of the Stars area. This is where standees of local artists are placed alongside the pathways.

This is Nino Mulach when he was young. So cute!

Sir Abbas having a discussion with some of my classmates.

Nora Aunor photos and awards

Me in one costumes room. What saddened me is that the costumes are bare; they were not protected by anything such as glass. You can touch them and do whatever. 

Ryzza Mae Chacha Dizon, so young and relatively new in the industry, already has a standee inside the museum. This girl is surely going places.

Me enjoying the light reflection in my shirt inside the horror room.

It was nice to walk through the history of Philippine film industry.  I really had fun with my classmates.

I hope the Philippine film industry will flourish once more. With the help of organization like Mowelfund, I hope preservation of films and things related to it will always be done.