Anthony Chen, Fruit Chan and Marco Mueller are among the filmmakers producing projects from emerging filmmakers at this year’s HAF.
Films that won awards at recent Southeast Asian festivals including QCinema, Singapore, Jogja-Netpac and World Film Festival Bangkok.
Biplob Sarkar’s The Stranger, selected for Film Bazaar Recommends, also received an award from Prasad Labs and Qube.
Titles to screen across Film Bazaar sidebars include Varun Grover’s All India Rank, Devashish Makhija’s Joram and Kanu Behl’s Agra.
Rolling news about project market line-ups from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Rolling news about funding for projects from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
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.
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.
Audiences started to return to cinemas this summer, but business is more reliant than ever on a small number of big hits.
While Bollywood pins its hopes on the release of Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva, arthouse drama Return To Dust becomes a surprise hit in China.
As growth begins to stall in more mature markets, the streamers are increasing their focus on producing Asian content.
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.
