Others, however, exploited the liberalism and made films with less attention paid to story, and instead devoted scenes to scenes of gratuitous sex and violence. To make things worse, publicity for such films became more and more scurrilous. We simply stopped emphasizing production values such as direction, story, cinematography, editing, etcetera. It also didn't help some critics wanted to push talents at the expense of others, kaya kahit na tutoong may lumalaking bilang ng mga pelikula at direktor na umaani ng mga papuri at awards buhat sa mga international film festival, hindi ito mabigyan ng karampatang atensiyon. May nagturuan, may nasisihan.
Philippine cinema is our common responsibility.
Our detractors say it easily took a former actor to put us here. I say, no. It took four presidents since Marcos for us to get here. It took the energies of countless of local and international filmmakers whose works we craved to see in their integral forms, uncut, for us to want to get here. It took the activism of so many creative minds who fearlessly took to the parliament of the streets for us to demand for the right to be here.