Question & AnswerQ&A (MTRCB MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 93-014)
The primary concern is to exercise care in the production of movie and television trailers due to their exposure to a wide audience, including impressionable minors, particularly regarding scenes of sex and violence.
Excessive violence such as frontal shooting and stabbing, torture scenes, hostage scenes with weapons, gory blasts with bodies being mangled, mutilated or blown off, suicide acts, karate chops causing visible injuries, and child abuse are prohibited.
No, trailers that create an overall impact of violence, even without showing explicitly violent scenes, are not allowed.
No, any depiction of drug-taking and drug abuse is not allowed in movie and television trailers.
Explicit or suggestive sex includes pumpings, frontal nudity, breast exposure, torrid kissing, fondling of the body, and sexual aberrations.
Obscene language, cuss words and double entendres, including words like "shit", "fuck", "leche", "putang ina", "ulol", "gago", "tarantado", "sirang-ulo", and "walanghiya", among others, are prohibited.
Because trailers are viewed by a broad and diverse audience, including minors, these guidelines help protect vulnerable viewers from exposure to harmful content involving excessive violence, drugs, sexual content, and offensive language.
The memorandum was adopted by Atty. Henrietta S. Mendez, the Chairman of the MTRCB.
It was adopted on 30 July 1993.
The classification referred to is General Patronage, meaning the content is fit for all ages and should be free from explicit sex, excessive violence, drug abuse, and obscene language.