Korea’s New Co-Production Fund; China 2026 H1 Box Office; Nansun Shi Legacy
Filmmakers including Indonesia's Makbul Mubarak and Vietnam's Thien An Pham received production grants in Purin's latest funding round.
Safe Exit scooped the Golden Star for best narrative feature, while Citizen Osama won both best documentary & best Arab documentary.
PART FOUR: Who owns the production pipeline when the pipeline is software; what happens to the middle of an industry when the tools no longer need one, and whether Korean speed is still an advantage when the tools can simulate it. Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment
This edition of Streamlined is looking at Busan International Film Festival, and its industry platform Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), which both wrapped last week. Two talking points stood out this year: the growing levels of cooperation between Asian filmmaker countries, as conditions across the region become more difficult