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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Purin Pictures Autumn 2022: Funding News
Three fiction projects and four documentaries have been granted support in Bangkok film fund's latest funding round.
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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.
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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.