Chinese-Speaking Markets
Far East Film Festival To Open With ‘YOLO’, ‘Citizen Of A Kind’; Zhang Yimou To Be Honoured
Zhang will receive a Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement and present three films.
Liz Shackleton
Streamlined Insights
India’s Cinevesture Fest & Market Launch; Filmart Wrap & Hong Kong Film Industry
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
News
India’s Cinevesture Unveils Screenings Line-up; CIFF Market To Present 20 Projects
Cinevesture International Film Festival will open with The Taste Of Things and close with Exhuma.
Streamlined Insights
Southeast Asia Buzz List; Hong Kong Filmart; Streamlined Two-Year Anniversary
A short newsletter this week as I’m busy prepping Deadline’s Filmart online dailies, but wanted to share a few things: Firstly, I’ve finally updated the Buzz List of projects coming out of Southeast Asia, available here, and you can see that this continues to be one of
Festivals
Mongolia’s ‘City Of Wind’ Wins Best Picture At Osaka Asian Film Festival
Taiwanese drama Salli won the Most Promising Talent award for director Lien Chien Hung, and the ABC TV award.
Streamlined Insights
Asia Box Office 2024 Preview: Upcoming Films From India & Japan
As part of a series of Asian market overviews in the run-up to Filmart, Streamlined is looking at the current box office situation in India and Japan, along with the upcoming release schedule for local films in both markets. Streamlined’s previous edition, which focused on Korea, can be
Africa
Mati Diop's 'Dahomey' Becomes Second African Film To Win Berlin Golden Bear
Mubi has acquired North America and a slew of other territories on Diop's second film.
Streamlined Insights
Lunar New Year Box Office; Korea's Current Malaise & Upcoming Films
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
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Eye Catcher Global Opens Submissions For $13K Asian New Director Award
Second edition of Asian film industry pitching and networking event will take place June 19-23 in Hong Kong.
News
India's Cinevesture Film Festival To Launch In March With Producer Focused Mission
Rana Daggubati, Jerome Paillard and Nicole Guillemet have joined the advisory board of the new film festival in Chandigarh.
Korea & Japan
Osaka Asian Film Festival To Open With ‘The Moon Thieves’, Close With 'Tokyo Cowboy'
Japanese festival of Asian cinema also announced its 14-strong competition line-up, including four world premieres.
Europe
Japan’s ‘Rei’, Iran’s ‘The Old Bachelor’ Take Top Awards In Rotterdam
Special Jury Awards in the Tiger Competition went to India's Kiss Wagon and Australia's Flathead.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
HKIFF-CAA Chinese-Language Genre Initiative Selects Six Projects
Joint initiative between Hong Kong International Film Festival and CAA China is designed to foster Chinese-language genre films.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Taiwanese Filmmakers Issue Appeal Over Funding Changes
A group of more than 100 Taiwanese filmmakers has issued a statement expressing concerns over changes to Taiwan’s co-production funding scheme.
Streamlined Insights
Spotlight On Red Sea, Taiwan & Philippines Funds; Vietnam’s New Festival & Projects Market
This edition of Streamlined is taking another look at film funds and project markets in Asia and the Middle East before going on a break until after Lunar New Year. Red Sea Fund Impact On Saudi & Regional Cinema As promised, I’m returning to the subject of Saudi Arabia’
News
Philippines’ FDCP Announces Grants For ICOF, FLIP & CreatePHFilms
Film Development Council of the Philippines has announced a raft of grants for both local productions and international co-productions.
Streamlined Insights
Asia 2023 Box Office Round-Up: Local Hits, Superhero Fatigue & Why Taylor Swift Is The New Harry Potter
I know I promised to cover Red Sea Fund in more depth in this edition, but we’ve been overtaken by events in the world of funds, at least in Taiwan, so I’m waiting for a few things to shake out before returning to that subject later this week.
Streamlined Insights
Funding, Labs & Project Markets Round-Up 2023: Asia, Africa & Middle East
For the last edition of 2023, Streamlined is staying true to it name and purpose by streamlining all the news out of the autumn 2023 season of labs, project markets and funding announcements in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Funding for cinema from these regions through government subsidies and