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It’s taken me a while to gather my thoughts on Filmart and what is currently going on in Hong Kong. More on that below. First a quick introduction to a new event in India, Cinevesture International Film Festival, which kicks off in the city of Chandigarh next week. And
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Streamlined has only been offline for one month, but in that time, it's become clear that we're having a challenging start to the year: war and politics are casting a shadow over the on-going Berlin film festival; global streamers are continuing their great local-language contraction, with
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Second edition of Asian film industry pitching and networking event will take place June 19-23 in Hong Kong.
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HKIFF Industry Project Market has selected 15 projects for its Works-in-Progress section.
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Joint initiative between Hong Kong International Film Festival and CAA China is designed to foster Chinese-language genre films.
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A group of more than 100 Taiwanese filmmakers has issued a statement expressing concerns over changes to Taiwan’s co-production funding scheme.
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HAF has selected 26 in-development projects for this year’s edition, which is taking place March 11-13.
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Universal's Fast X was the highest-grossing import in China in 2023, ranking at number 12 in the year-end chart with $135m.
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As promised, this edition of Streamlined concludes a two-part deep dive into Taiwan, looking at series production; reasons behind the soft power push; and what Taiwan is wisely not doing as it positions itself as a global production hub. The first part focused on co-production funding for features. I’ve
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Taiwan was one of the few territories that emerged from the pandemic relatively unscathed. As an island, it was relatively easy for the government to secure the borders to control the spread of Covid, so production carried on more or less uninterrupted, and cinemas mostly remained open during the pandemic.
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Chewing Gum, the debut feature of Taiwanese writer-director Lee Yi-shan, won the Grand Prize of NT$1m ($32,000) at this year’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion.
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Hardly anyone in North America or Europe seems interested in working with mainland China’s film and TV industries these days. Even before China retreated behind a literal and metaphorical wall during the pandemic, too many fingers had been burned, too many deals never materialised and too many projects scuppered