ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project

ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project
Established2011 (2011)
ChairLeo Katigbak
AddressELJ Communications Center, Eugenio Lopez Drive, Diliman, Quezon City
Location
Philippines
DissolvedMarch 31, 2025

ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project, also known as Sagip Pelikula, was a digital film restoration project of ABS-CBN Corporation in partnership with Central Digital Lab. Launched in 2011, the project was headed by Leo Katigbak of ABS-CBN Film Archives and Manet Dayrit of Central Digital Lab. The goal of the project was to digitally restore and remaster select Filipino films from the archives of ABS-CBN.

The project digitized, restored, and remastered over 240 Philippine films into a 1080p or 2K Digital Cinema Package format with a maximum resolution of 2048x1080 pixels at 24 frames per second. These films have been released through a wide array of platforms including limited theatrical runs, film festivals, free-to-air and cable television, DVDs, pay per view, and over-the-top content platforms such as iTunes. Most of the restoration processes were done by Central Digital Lab in the Philippines with the exception of select films which were commissioned by ABS-CBN to be restored abroad by L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, Italy and Kantana Post-Production in Bangkok, Thailand, and others which were scanned and enhanced in-house. All copyrights to the films restored and remastered are owned in perpetuity by ABS-CBN.

On August 31, 2020, the film restoration project unit downsized its operations as part of the retrenchment by the company after its new legislative franchise for the company's broadcasting operations was denied by the House of Representatives.

On March 31, 2025, the project ceased its operations, citing effects attributed to the 2020 shutdown. It was later confirmed by head Leo Katigbak on his Facebook page on May 1.