ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project

The project is headed by Leo Katigbak of ABS-CBN Film Archives and Manet Dayrit of Central Digital Lab.

The goal of the project is to digitally restore and remaster select Filipino films from the archives of ABS-CBN.

and Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos which were commissioned by ABS-CBN to be restored abroad by L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, Italy and was supervised by Davide Pozzi.

[3][4][5][6] The first stage of the process is the scanning of the film negatives or prints into a digital picture and sound raw format.

The process involves the digital removal of dirt, scratches, fingerprints, discolorations, molds, tape marks, and other damages in the scanned materials.

A still image from Ishmael Bernal 's 1982 film Himala illustrating the difference between the old and the restored version.