Mowelfund tour: A glimpse of the Masterpieces

On the 27th of September this year, we are privileged to visit the Mowelfund (Movie Workers Welfare Foundation Inc.) together with our Cinema professor, Mr. Abbas. 

The tour started with a short talk given by the ever timeless beauty, Boots Anson-Roa.  The crowd wowed as she came out and started talking. 

After a few while, we were allowed to enter the building and explore the place on our own. Here are some pictures. 

This photo is Nora Aunor's costume as Darna. In front of this is a life-size picture of her, wearing the costume. 

Other costumes and dresses were kept there. Such as her dress on her movie, "Himala". And other stars' too. 

Then we entered a room full of vintage cameras, films, and other devices that are/were used in a production. 

But what I and my friends were really excited about was the horror room. A room full of horrifying props used in Filipino horror movies.Then there are heart-pounding sound effects that added to the "scary" feel of the entire room, and made it more exciting! 

Then we saw this beautifully made puzzle-like wall. I couldn't let the chance of taking a picture with it slip! 

When we head outside the building, we saw life-size portraits of different actors and actresses. We kidded aside for pretending that they are real and that we are really thrilled to see them... So we took the photo op! Hihi. :D

Here we are imitating their poses. Haha!

(From left to right: Me, Yrma, and Janine)

From left to right: Julie, me, Janine, and Jyng

The tour lasted for about two hours. It was tiring, but a lot of fun, not to mention very educational. 

There is one thing I would like to request from the heads of the foundation, also to other Film enthusiasts: To please take good care of Mowelfund. It shelters the Filipino masterpieces. From Filipino cinema history, to costumes, to stars glorifying characters, to present. I noticed that outside, the stars that I think equals to Hollywood's walk of fame, is not that presentable. I'm sorry for not choosing the right word. But it just doesn't look good. The place is beautiful for it keeps past and present work of arts, it deserves at least just beautification. :)