Award winners included Colleen Kwok’s The Stars The Sun The Moon, Huang Ningwei’s Not Found and Yang Heng’s Silent Ghosts.
Category: SOUTH ASIA
India’s Clean Slate to launch female-oriented streaming platform
Clean OTT will focus on South Asian content driven by female actors, directors and producers.
Amazon Prime to premiere Jalsa, starring Shefali Shah, Vidya Balan
Produced by Abundantia Entertainment and T-Series, the film is a thriller revolving around a journalist and her cook.
Netflix launches revenge thriller Thar, produced by and starring Anil Kapoor
Produced by Anil Kapoor Film Company (AKFC), the 1980s-set Western noir is written and directed by Raj Singh Choudhary.
FESTIVALS: Mama’s Affair, Angry Son among world premieres at Osaka Asian
Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF, March 10-20) has unveiled its biggest ever line-up with 76 films and 24 world premieres, including two in its competition section – Mama’s Affair, from Hong Kong director Kearen Pang, and Angry Son from Japan’s Kasho Iizuka.
Amazon to produce three Indian adaptations of Modern Love
Filmed in three Indian languages, the series will be set in Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad.
What impact will the NFTs craze have on the content industries?
As non-fungible tokens sweep Asia, a group of Hong Kong companies are trying to turn the craze into a business model for the film and TV industries.
Amazon Prime Video India to start streaming live cricket matches
Following a deal with the New Zealand cricket board, Amazon India will stream a test series between NZ and Bangladesh from Jan 1, 2022.
Yash Raj Films enters streaming production with The Railway Men
YRF Entertainment aims to produce five series in its first year, starting with a project about the Bhopal industrial disaster.
India’s OTT revenue to reach $4.5bn by 2026; Netflix ahead in SVOD revenue share
Execs from Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ Hotstar discussed market trends and future strategy at the two-day APOS virtual conference.