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  • In My Mothers Skin
    January 21, 2023 Liz Shackleton

    BUZZ LIST: Southeast Asia Projects In The Pipeline

    Upcoming indie film projects from Southeast Asia in various stages of development, production and upcoming festival premieres.

  • Producerland Jan 2023
    January 21, 2023 Liz Shackleton

    India’s ProducerLAND Launches Project Accelerator Programme ‘Ascent’

    Former Memento sales chief Tanja Meissner, German producer Roman Paul and Film Constellation’s Fabien Westerhoff are among the mentors on the three-module programme.

  • 6th Pingyao International Film Festival
    January 14, 2023 Liz Shackleton

    Pingyao International Film Festival Opens With Wang Mu’s ‘Awakening Spring’

    China’s Pingyao International Film Festival kicks off today (Jan 14) with the world premiere of Chinese director Wang Mu’s Awakening Spring.

STREAMLINED NEWS

HAF 2023 filmmakers
January 13, 2023 Liz Shackleton

HAF Announces Line-Up Of 28 Development Projects For 2023 In-Person Edition

Anthony Chen, Fruit Chan and Marco Mueller are among the filmmakers producing projects from emerging filmmakers at this year’s HAF.

Autobiography
December 20, 2022 Liz Shackleton

ROUND-UP: Award Winners From Southeast Asia’s Autumn 2022 Festival Circuit

Films that won awards at recent Southeast Asian festivals including QCinema, Singapore, Jogja-Netpac and World Film Festival Bangkok.

Mithya
November 25, 2022 Liz Shackleton

‘Mithya’, ‘Bahadur’ Win Work-in-Progress Awards At India’s Film Bazaar 

Biplob Sarkar’s The Stranger, selected for Film Bazaar Recommends, also received an award from Prasad Labs and Qube.

Shivamma
November 14, 2022 Liz Shackleton

NFDC Unveils Work-In-Progress Lab & Film Bazaar Recommends

Titles to screen across Film Bazaar sidebars include Varun Grover’s All India Rank, Devashish Makhija’s Joram and Kanu Behl’s Agra.


STREAMLINED DATABASES

August 19, 2022 Liz Shackleton

PROJECT MARKETS: Asian Project Market 2022

Rolling news about project market line-ups from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

August 18, 2022 Liz Shackleton

FUNDING NEWS: Asian Cinema Fund 2022

Rolling news about funding for projects from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.


STREAMLINED NEWSLETTERS

Ajoomma
October 23, 2022 Liz Shackleton

Busan Business; India Becoming The New China; Southeast Asian Festival Circuit

Busan was busy but how much business was being done? How India’s censorship regime is starting to look a lot like China’s. And Southeast Asia’s new festival circuit.

Shoot
September 26, 2022 Liz Shackleton

Saudi Filmmaker Aymen Khoja On How To Build A Film Industry From Scratch

Saudi Arabia is now the biggest box office territory in the Middle East, but its local film industry is still in the very early stages of development.

The Roundup
September 16, 2022 Liz Shackleton

Summer Box Office Picks Up In East Asia, But It’s All About The Blockbusters

Audiences started to return to cinemas this summer, but business is more reliant than ever on a small number of big hits.

September 9, 2022 Liz Shackleton

Can ‘Brahmastra’ Save Bollywood? Why ‘Return To Dust’ Is A Surprise Hit In China

While Bollywood pins its hopes on the release of Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva, arthouse drama Return To Dust becomes a surprise hit in China.

Timo Tjahjanto on the set of his upcoming Netflix movie The Big 4
September 2, 2022 Liz Shackleton

Streamlined Returns; Summer Streaming Summary; Festival Circuit Redux

As growth begins to stall in more mature markets, the streamers are increasing their focus on producing Asian content.

Palais des Festivals, 75th Festival de Cannes
May 31, 2022 Liz Shackleton

So that was Cannes 2022: a return to the new normal

A summary of the major trends to emerge at this year’s Cannes film festival, from the sales business to global production incentives and beyond.

LATEST ARTICLES

  • BUZZ LIST: Southeast Asia Projects In The Pipeline
  • India’s ProducerLAND Launches Project Accelerator Programme ‘Ascent’
  • Pingyao International Film Festival Opens With Wang Mu’s ‘Awakening Spring’
  • HAF Announces Line-Up Of 28 Development Projects For 2023 In-Person Edition
  • ROUND-UP: Award Winners From Southeast Asia’s Autumn 2022 Festival Circuit
  • ‘Mithya’, ‘Bahadur’ Win Work-in-Progress Awards At India’s Film Bazaar 
  • NFDC Unveils Work-In-Progress Lab & Film Bazaar Recommends
  • Purin Pictures Awards Grants To Seven Projects In Autumn Funding Round
  • India’s Film Bazaar Announces 20 Projects Selected For Co-production Market
  • Busan Business; India Becoming The New China; Southeast Asian Festival Circuit
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FESTIVAL UPDATES

A New Old Play
August 31, 2022 Staff writers

FESTIVALS:‘A New Old Play’, ‘Mediterranean Fever’ win top awards at HKIFF

Coo-Coo 043
August 30, 2022 Staff writers

FESTIVALS: ‘Coo-Coo 043’, ‘Marry My Dead Body’ to bookend Taipei Golden Horse

Drowning In Holy Water
July 20, 2022 Liz Shackleton

FESTIVALS: ‘Drowning In Holy Water’ takes best film at MIFFEST Awards

July 15, 2022 Liz Shackleton

FESTIVALS: ‘You Won’t Be Alone’ wins best film at BiFan

July 10, 2022 Liz Shackleton

FESTIVALS: Elvis Lu’s ‘A Holy Family’ wins grand prize at Taipei Film Award