Puregold Cinepanalo Film Festival 2025 Awards Night: Winners Bared

Puregold's Cinepanalo Film Festival is certainly getting bigger by the year. This 2025, they've got a lot of full length and short film entries that have been watched at Gateway Mall 2's cinemas this past week. They've been extended a week after the star ridden awards night which has gotten some of my personal bets win major awards. 

Though I didn't get to list some of the winners, I've taken note of those that I've heard from the back of the room because yes, they were all cheering quite loud at the Elements tent in Centris, Quezon City.

Here are the winners:

Panalo sa Film Poster
Student Short Film Category
Checkmate
Full Length
Journeyman

Panalo sa Brand Inclusion
Student Short Film Category
Champ Green
G!
Full Length
Journeyman

Pinakapanalong Promosyon Ng Pelikula
Student Short Film Category
Checkmate tied with Taympers

Pinakapanalong Awitin
Student Short Film Category
Sine Sine (Suga, Camera, Saad by Jonathan Rey Sartorio and Lloyd Martin Villacortes Arce, Performed by Jonathan Rey ROTT Sartorio)
Full Length
Diko Pinili Co-Love

Pinakapanalong Sound Design
Student Short Film Category
Champ Green (Elan Idioma)
Full Length
Salum

Panalo sa Editing
Student Short Film Category
Jose Andy Sales of G!
Full Length
Vanessa Ubas de Leon of Co-love

Panalo Musical Scoring
Student Short Film Category
Uwian (Len Calvo)
Full Length
Salum

Panalong Ensemble
Student Short Film Category
Sine Sine
Full Length
Tigkiliwi

Panalo Sa Production Design
Student Short Film Category
Uwian (Andrea Jane Perang)
Full Length
Salum

Panalong Cinematography
Student Short Film Category
Dan En Pointe
Full Length
Olsen's Day tied with Journeyman

Responsableng Paglikha
Student Short Film Category
3rd Place 123 Strike
2nd Place Sine Sine
1st Place Dan En Pointe
Full Length
Journeyman

Special Citation from Mowelfund
Student Short Film Category
Champ Green
Full Length
Olsen's Day

Pinakapanalong Kwento
Student Short Film Category
Champ Green Clyde Cuizon Gamale
Full Length
Tara Illenberger of Tigkiwili

Panalong Pangalawang Aktor
Student Short Film Category
Sol Eugenio of Champ Green
Full Length
Jeffrey Jinuma for Tigkiwili

Panalong Pangalawang Aktres
Student Short Film Category
Uzziel Delamide of Uwian
Full Length
Gabby Padilla of Tigkiliwi

Panalo sa Manonood
Student Short Film Category
Sisenta
Full Length
Co-Love

Pinaka Panalong Aktor
Student Short Film Category
Lucas Martin of Sam Pie and Jasper John of Juan Dela Cruz
Full Length
Khalil Ramos and JP Larroder of Olsen's Day and Tigkiliwi

Best Actress
Student Short Film Category
Geraldine Villamil for Uwian
Full Length
Ruby Ruiz of Tikiliwi

Always Panalo Film (embody the brand's values)
Student Short Film
Sampie
Full Length
Journeyman tied with Fleeting

Panalo sa International Jury
Journeyman

Panalong Director

Student Short Film Category
Vhan Marco Molacruz of Uwian

Full Length
JP Habac for Olsen's Day

Pinakapanalong Maikling Pelkula
Champ Green
(Jury Prize) Dela Cruz Juan P.

Pinakapanalong Pelikula
Salum
(Jury Prize) Tigkiliwi

The films will be showcased at the Gateway Mall 2 Cineplex 18 cinemas until March 25th. If you haven't watched an entry yet, or haven't finished watching the shorts and full length films, head on to the mall and purchase tickets. It's not expensive and the entries are pretty good. It will feed your hunger for films especially since people are flocking back to cinemas this year. 

KHALIL RAMOS Does Exceptionally Well at Puregold Cinepanalo Entry OLSEN'S DAY

Fast review!

This is my first day of watching the Puregold Cinepanalo Festival and saw a couple of films. One is an PG flick by Director JP Habac called "Olsen's Day" starring the good looking Khalil Ramos. 

It's a family film, much of which was just him and an elderly Mom suffering from dementia. There are problems in the world, but much of them were with him (it felt like that). The film shows the complexities of work, his life, and fate. The cast includes Romnick Sarmienta, who meets Khalil's character Olsen and had them along for a ride to Manila.

This trip would change his life, his outlook on so many things, including his situation as a son, as a person, and realize how love, for family can be sufficient no matter what the odds are. It also talks a whole lot about forgiveness.

Khalil's exceptional performance in this film might well cause him getting a nomination for Best Actor. It's very intricate, subtle, you could hear him sigh, flood you in his eyes that speak. 

He knows his craft, and he is so good at it. Go watch Olsen's Day at the Gateway 2 Mall Cineplex as part of the Puregold Cinepanalo Festival.

JENNYLYN MERCADO, DENNIS TRILLO, SAM MILBY for Romantic Comedy EVERYTHING ABOUT MY WIFE

Finally had the chance to talk to the cast of EVERYTHING ABOUT MY WIFE yesterday at their mediacon. For starters, Jennylyn Mercado has been heavily missed, and she's working with her hubby Dennis Trillo in this movie. They're also doing this with Sam Milby, a proper character for the man who looks like a true blue Cassanova, so when they showed this a couple months back, I was so excited for it.

The event was also graced by co-stars Ms. Carmi Martin, Alex Agustin, Polo Laurel, Joyang of TikTok fame, Chico Alicaya and Karlo Aranza. 

 The plot is simple, Jen and Dennis' characters are married, they get bored and irate over the continuous yapping, felt about to give up, then Sam's character comes along. With a sculptured physique, smooth talk, will they give up their marriage or stay? Imagine the situations left for imagination, the journey must have been filled with hurt, funny clap backs, thirst traps and romantic talk.

Director Real Florido says "There is a need for romcom films. I've been doing indie movies, started it about 10 years ago. I've done 2 Cinemalaya entries, but I feel it's not Indie vs Commercial films anymore. The lines are blurred. You make it now because you are a filmmaker. Romcoms have the same importance as with other genres. We tell stories that inspire and sometimes pull heartstrings. It's one of the reasons we do films like these, because they want to see it and the public demands it. Filipinos are suckers for love, we want that fleeting feeling, we want to laugh and cry with the characters we see on screen. We do that with friends, we talk about our relationships, open up about it, and we relate to them too. It's always a part of conversations, and makes us feel alive."

Dennis told us "It's fun to make films like these because it's relatable, to do characters that are universal. For artists like us, we do these like ourselves, we are husband and wife in real life. Some of the scenes here are things we also do."

Jen added "Like what Dennis said, it's familiar territory. We enjoyed it though, and working with my husband is such a joy. It's feels so good to do scenes, and I'm sure when people see it, they will relate to our characters."

Sam says "It's hard, a challenge for me to do this character. They say I shine when I'm evil, but Miguel is a Cassanova, a womanizer. Direk was there to help me out. I'm a shy introvert, so this one is overly confident, and I try to be out of my comfort zone to do this."

 Here's the whole mediacon on video, please sub, and enjoy!

The producer CreaZion Studios was represented by their CEO RJ Agustin. For those who want to see it, the film will be shown on February 26th. The premiere night will be on the 25th at SM Megamall if I'm not mistaken so if you want to see the stars, you should go there! This is produced by CreaZion Studios and GMA Pictures. Jen and Dennis was thought to have produced this too but no, because this came before Green Bones and their production outfit was launched last year.

Go watch it in cinemas! See you there!