Rising Action Exactly sixty years after it first premiered, Genghis Khan was unveiled once more to the Venice Film Festival crowd in 2012, and it has yet lose its luster. Originally thought to be long lost, Genghis Khan surprisingly turned up at the Venice vaults after six long decades. Archivists took this chance to restore the film to its former glory and have since included it in the Venice Film line-up, in celebration. Repatriation of the original film prints to our country has been overseen by the FDCP. After six decades, Conde’s masterpiece has finally had its long overdue homecoming. At present the FDCP has custody of about a thousand films, among them are the 1941 Ibong Adarna directed by Vicente Salumbides and the 1965 A Portrait of the Filipino as an Artist which was based on the popular play by Nick Joaquin, both of which were featured films at the
Conclusion The Film Development Council of the Philippines is steadily bringing new life to old Filipino films, one frame, one film reel at a time, restoring the treasures of Philippine cinema. In the near future, we may have our own screening of Manuel Conde’s great creation Genghis Khan, right here in Iloilo. Long live Cinema Filipino!
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Cinematheque Iloilo earlier this July. The FDCP committee has urged President Benigno Aquino III to issue an executive order that would require all agencies to turn over their film inventory to the FDCP for preservation. Presently, large studios like Regal Films, Sampaguita Pictures, and the University of the Philippines Film Institute’s Film Center are gradually furnishing the archives of our countries cinematheques.