Festivals

FESTIVALS: Indonesia’s 'Like & Share' Takes Grand Prix At Osaka Asian

Indonesian filmmaker Gina S. Noer’s Like & Share was presented with the Grand Prix best picture award at this year’s Osaka Asian Film Festival (March 10-19) in Japan.

Chinese-Speaking Markets

Sasha Chuk’s ‘Fly Me To The Moon’ Wins Five Awards At HAF

Taiwanese filmmaker Lien Chien-Hung's Salli and The Poison Cat, from China's Guan Tian, also picked up multiple awards.

Chinese-Speaking Markets

FESTIVALS: ‘Mad Fate’, ‘Elegies’ To Open HKIFF

Soi Cheang’s noir thriller Mad Fate and the world premiere of Ann Hui’s documentary Elegies will open this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival.

News

Full Circle Lab Philippines Unveils 15 Projects For Fifth Edition

Line-up includes new projects from the Philippines' Martika Ramirez Escobar and Myanmar's Maung Sun.

Streamlined Insights

Filmart Returns; Hong Kong’s Political Landscape; China Release Schedule

This edition of Streamlined marks exactly one year since I launched this newsletter to summarise and analyse events in the film & streaming content industries across Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. I haven’t managed to keep to a weekly schedule, especially since joining Deadline, and haven’t

Streamlined Insights

The Yash Raj Films Effect; Indian Films In Berlin & Rotterdam; Self-Censorship At The Streamers

Back to India, where there has never been so much content being made, and perhaps never been so many complex political and commercial factors impacting that content. It feels as if the pandemic never happened in India, as the country is producing a staggering range of films and television – from

Chinese-Speaking Markets

FESTIVALS: Osaka Asian To Open With Ho Cheuk Tin’s ‘Over My Dead Body’

Hong Kong black comedy Over My Dead Body will receive its world premiere as the opening film of this year’s Osaka Asian Film Festival (March 10-19).

Chinese-Speaking Markets

Bridging The Dragon To Explore Euro-Asian Collaboration At EFM

Two-day forum expands BTD's Sino-European focus to the rest of East Asia.

Chinese-Speaking Markets

HAF Works-in-Progress 2023: Full Line-Up

Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum has selected 15 Work-in-Progress projects, in addition to the 28 in-development projects previously announced.

Africa

FESTIVALS: ‘Le Spectre De Boko Haram’ Wins Tiger Award In Rotterdam

Cameroonian filmmaker Cyrielle Raingou’s Le Spectre De Boko Haram was presented with the Tiger Award at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Streamlined Insights

Can Southeast Asian Indie Cinema Continue Its Momentum In 2023?

I’m not sure why I thought that compiling a list of upcoming projects from Southeast Asia, and looking at recent tweaks to the region’s funding programmes, would be a quick and easy job to do. It has taken weeks to compile, and while I finally stopped at 30

News

India’s ProducerLAND Launches Project Accelerator Programme ‘Ascent’

Former Memento sales chief Tanja Meissner, German producer Roman Paul and Film Constellation’s Fabien Westerhoff are among the mentors on the three-module programme.

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.

Chinese-Speaking Markets

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.

Streamlined Insights

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.

Streamlined Insights

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.