Chinese-Speaking Markets

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.

News

Film Bazaar WIP & FBR 2022: Full Line-Up

Titles to screen across Film Bazaar sidebars include Varun Grover’s All India Rank, Devashish Makhija’s Joram and Kanu Behl’s Agra.

Middle East & North Africa

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ‘The Beasts’ Takes Three Prizes At Tokyo Film Festival

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.

Southeast Asia

Purin Pictures Autumn 2022: Funding News

Three fiction projects and four documentaries have been granted support in Bangkok film fund's latest funding round.

News

Film Bazaar Co-production Market 2022: Full Line-Up

Project market organised by India's National Film Development Corp is taking place as an in-person event for the first time since 2019.

Streamlined Insights

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

Chinese-Speaking Markets

‘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.

Streamlined Insights

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

News

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.

Chinese-Speaking Markets

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.

Chinese-Speaking Markets

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.

News

Malaysia's FINAS Teams With Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan On Mylab In Busan

FINAS will be working with the Singapore Film Commission, Film Development Council of the Philippines and Taiwan Creative Content Agency on the lab.

Streamlined Insights

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

Korea & Japan

Tokyo Gap Financing Market 2022: Full Line-Up

The 3rd edition of TIFFCOM’s Tokyo Gap Financing Market is taking place online October 25-27 and has selected 20 projects.

Streamlined Insights

Can 'Brahmastra' Save Bollywood? Why Arthouse Drama '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 success

Streamlined Insights

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 & North Africa

‘A New Old Play’ & ‘Mediterranean Fever’ Win Top Awards At Hong Kong Film Festival

A New Old Play was named best film in the Chinese section, while Mediterranean Fever took best film in the World section.

Chinese-Speaking Markets

Taiwan’s Studio76 & Singapore’s IFA Media Wrap 'Love Punch'

Wen Chen-Ling and Ding Ning head the cast of boxing drama co-financed by Hong Kong's Celestial Tiger Entertainment.