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Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum 2023: Full Line-Up
Anthony Chen, Fruit Chan and Marco Mueller are among the filmmakers producing projects from emerging filmmakers at this year's HAF.
Africa
'Joyland', 'Nice View', FFI, NSOC And Other Issues Facing The Oscars' Best International Feature Category
The extraordinary journey of Pakistan’s Oscar submission Joyland last week – going from banned in its home country, to still qualifying for the Oscars via a French release, to having its ban reversed, all within the space of a week – illustrates yet again some of the issues faced by the
Chinese Speaking
AWARDS: ‘Coo-Coo 043’, ‘Limbo’ Triumph At Golden Horse Awards
Taiwanese filmmaker Chan Ching-lin’s Coo-Coo 043 was awarded best feature at this year’s Golden Horse Awards, while Hong Kong drama Limbo won the biggest number of awards with four prizes.
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Hubert Bals Script & Project Development Winter 2022: Funding News
HBF has selected 11 projects for its Script and Project Development Support initiative in the Winter 2022 funding round.
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FESTIVALS: ‘A Wild Roomer’, ‘Shivamma’ Take New Currents Awards In Busan
Korean filmmaker Lee Jeong-hong’s A Wild Roomer and Shivamma, from India’s Jaishankar Aryar, were the winners of the New Currents Awards at this year’s Busan International Film Festival.
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Golden Horse FPP Series 2022: Full Line-Up
Entering its third year, the Series section of the 2022 Golden Horse Film Project Promotion selected 20 projects.
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Golden Horse FPP Features 2022: Full Line-Up
Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (FPP) selected 48 film projects, of which eight are works-in-progress.
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Summer Box Office Picks Up In East Asia, But It’s All About The Blockbusters
Another box office themed newsletter this week. As in Europe and North America, summer box office revenues in East Asia’s biggest markets – China, Japan and South Korea – have given some cause for optimism. I recently wrote a report on post-pandemic box office recovery for the Hong Kong Trade Development
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Can 'Brahmastra' Save Bollywood? Why 'Return To Dust' Is A Surprise Hit In China
This week I’m looking at two separate box office phenomena – the opening of what is being billed as the Hindi film industry’s biggest ever film, Brahmastra: Part One - Shiva, and whether it can stem the tide of flops that Bollywood has endured this year, and the surprise
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Streamlined Returns; Summer Streaming Summary; Festival Circuit Redux
This has taken much longer than intended, but I’m attempting to bring Streamlined back as a weekly newsletter to shine a light on the many film and TV industries outside of ‘the West’, which the international industry often regards as ‘the Rest’, even though these are the regions that
Middle East
FESTIVALS: ‘A New Old Play’, ‘Mediterranean Fever’ Win Top Awards At HKIFF
A New Old Play was named best film in the Chinese section, while Mediterranean Fever took best film in the World section.
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FESTIVALS: ‘Coo-Coo 043’, ‘Marry My Dead Body’ To Bookend Taipei Golden Horse
Golden Horse has set Coo-Coo 043 as this year's opening film, while Cheng Wei-hao’s Marry My Dead Body will close the festival.