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Writers' Union of the Philippines (Filipino: Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas, abbreviated as UMPIL) is the largest organization of Filipino writers in the Philippines. [1] Established in 1974, the organization was first known by the English version of its name, the Writers' Union of the Philippines. [ 1 ]
The Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF; literally, "Center of the Filipino Language"), also known the Sentro, is a language academy, research center, and university-based publishing house that is part of the University of the Philippines System (UP).
The 2020 Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino (PPP, transl. Festival of Filipino Films) is the 4th edition of the annual Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino, organized by the Film Development Council of the Philippines. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film festival's entries were not screened live in cinemas. [2]
LVN Pictures was formed by the De Leon ["L"], Villongco ["V"], and Navoa ["N"] families before the onset of World War II in 1938. [1] At that time, the American-occupied Philippines was a ready market for American films, which further influenced various filmmakers like Jose Nepomuceno (the Father of Philippine Movies) to set up various film production companies to produce Tagalog movies.
The UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino (UPDF; "UP Filipino Dictionary") is a series of monolingual Filipino dictionaries. The dictionaries were created by the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino of the University of the Philippines, with Virgilio S. Almario, National Artist for Literature and a professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as editor-in-chief.
The Tagalog Wikipedia (Tagalog: Wikipediang Tagalog; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔ ᜏᜒᜃᜒᜉᜒᜇᜒᜌ) is the Tagalog language edition of Wikipedia, which was launched on 1 December 2003. It has 48,144 articles and is the 105th largest Wikipedia according to the number of articles as of 16 January 2025.
El Sanscrito en la lengua Tagalog – T H Pardo de Tavera, Paris, 1887; The Philippines and India – Dhirendra Nath Roy, Manila 1929 and India and The World – By Buddha Prakash, 1964. David Prescott Barrows (1914), A history of the Philippines at Google Books, pages 25–37
The Gawad Urian Awards were established to "examine Filipino films, bolster the interest of the masses and the Philippine film industry, study and celebrate the achievement that will help define the good Filipino film, and cultivate the knowledge and skills that the film medium was designed for, which is to be a medium of communication and ...