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Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Sound Engineering

Award presented annually by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ17079085 ↗
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The Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Sound Engineer is an award presented annually by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). It was first awarded at the 1st Metro Manila Film Festival ceremony, held in 1975; Diligin mo ng Hamog ang Uhaw na Lupa film received the award and it grants to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound editing or sound design. Currently, nominees and winners are determined by Executive Committees, headed by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman and key members of the film industry.

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“Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Sound Engineering” enters the record as award presented annually by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Metro, Manila and Film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Sound Engineering” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.