Chinese-Speaking Markets
FESTIVALS: Pingyao Opens With Wang Mu’s 'Awakening Spring'
China’s Pingyao International Film Festival kicks off today (Jan 14) with the world premiere of Chinese director Wang Mu’s Awakening Spring.
Liz Shackleton
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Is Southeast Asia Becoming The New Europe?; Local Indies Thrive On Funds, Labs & Co-productions
Let’s face it – even with Avatar: The Way Of Water bringing some much needed year-end box office cheer, 2022 has been a bit of a depressing year. The roaring ‘20s post-pandemic recovery we were promised has yet to materialise. So I’m going to end the year
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ROUND-UP: Award Winners From Southeast Asia’s Autumn 2022 Festival Circuit
Films that won awards at recent Southeast Asian festivals including QCinema, Singapore, Jogja-Netpac and World Film Festival Bangkok.
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Nadav Lapid Controversy At IFFI Goa; Ravish Kumar Resignation From NDTV
Two seemingly unrelated stories I reported on for Deadline this week reflect the worrying direction of travel in post-pandemic India. On Monday evening, Berlin Golden Bear-winning filmmaker Nadav Lapid, head of the competition jury at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, stood alone on stage
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‘Mithya’, ‘Bahadur’ Win Work-in-Progress Awards At India’s Film Bazaar
Biplob Sarkar's The Stranger, selected for Film Bazaar Recommends, also received an award from Prasad Labs and Qube.
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‘Joyland’, ‘Nice View’, FFI, NOSC & 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
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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.
Middle East & North Africa
FESTIVALS: Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ‘The Beasts’ Takes Three Prizes In Tokyo
Psychological thriller The Beasts, directed by Spain’s Rodrigo Sorogoyen, won three awards at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, including the Tokyo Grand Prix, best director and best actor for Denis Menochet.
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Busan Business; India Becoming The New China; Southeast Asian Festival Circuit
After six weeks on the road, I’ve heard a lot, watched a lot, learned a lot, and just had to buy a new MacBook Air after my old one decided to die of exhaustion. Although I’m not far behind it, I’m sharing a few thoughts on what
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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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Saudi Filmmaker Aymen Khoja On How To Build A Film Industry From Scratch
Streamlined is a bit late this week as I’m in Mumbai and spent most of last week bouncing off the back seat of taxis and rickshaws. I’m learning a lot here, but Mumbai traffic didn’t get any better during the pandemic (in fact seems to be much
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Celestial Tiger Teams With Malaysia’s Adrian Teh On Horror Anthology '3AM'
Five-part anthology launches on CTE horror and suspense channel Thrill on October 3.