Australia & New Zealand

Korea & Japan

'Leviticus', 'Knock' Win Best Of Bucheon & Audience Awards At Korea’s BIFAN Fest

Other winners included Best Director awards for Curry Barker's Obsession and Yoo Hyoung-joon's The Only Child In The Butchery.

Australia & New Zealand

Screen Australia Launches First Nations Factual Co-production Fund

Screen Australia’s First Nations Department, in partnership with several Australian regional screen agencies, has launched a factual co-production development fund, designed to elevate First Nations screen businesses in international markets.   The programme will support up to five First Nations businesses to expand their global experience by encouraging creative

Australia & New Zealand

Screen Australia Announces Funding Of $20.4m Across Features, Series & Shorts

Screen Australia has announced $20.4m of production and development funding across 91 narrative projects, including the first projects through its new Short Film Production Funding Program.   Among the titles is debut feature The Laugh Of Lakshmi, written and directed by S. Shakthidharan and produced by John Maynard (Balibo) and

Streamlined Guides

Streamlined Guides: Streaming Levies & Investment Obligations Part Two

Part Two of this guide looks at how six international territories are regulating streamers: UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa & Brazil.

Australia & New Zealand

Australian Production Spend Up 43% But Local Shoots See Reduced Share

As in other territories, production spend is shifting towards international features and SVOD and away from local free-to-air programming.

Project Markets

JAFF Future Project 2025: Full Line-Up

JAFF Future Project has selected ten projects for its second edition, while JAFF Content Market will present ten pieces of IP to producers, investors and distributors during the three-day event.

News

‘The Silent Village’, ‘Pangku’ Take Top Awards At JAFF Market

Bali bombings documentary Sampai Mati, directed by Australia’s Ben Golotta, also picked up a BSM Award.

News

JAFF Market Unveils Project Line-Up; Partners With Adelaide Film Festival

Indonesia's inaugural JAFF Market has selected ten projects for JAFF Future Project (JFP), including eight from Indonesia and two from Australia.

Europe

Japan’s ‘Rei’, Iran’s ‘The Old Bachelor’ Take Top Awards In Rotterdam

Special Jury Awards in the Tiger Competition went to India's Kiss Wagon and Australia's Flathead.

Streamlined Insights

US Strikes Impact On Global Production: Whose Stories Are We Telling Anyway?

So there I was thinking that Streamlined could safely take a few months off over the summer – nothing big was likely to happen; instead of which Hollywood has gone on strike, the world is on fire (not in a good way), and a brilliant marketing gimmick has convinced everyone to

Streamlined Insights

How The US Writers Strike Might Impact International Territories

It’s been an interesting week with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) calling a strike of its members, just a few weeks before the world descends on Cannes to trade new independent film packages. I won’t go into the reasons for the strike here as they’ve been

News

India’s Voot Launches Original Drama 'Khwabon Ke Parindey'

Sponsored by CoinDCX Go and Airtel, the six-part series is set in Australia and stars Asha Negi, Mrinal Dutt, Manasi Moghe and Tushar Sharma.

Australia & New Zealand

FESTIVALS: 'Ali’s Wedding' Wins Top Award In Sydney

Jeffrey Walker’s romantic comedy Ali’s Wedding won the top award in the narrative feature section of the audience awards at this year’s Sydney Film Festival.

Chinese-Speaking Markets

iQiyi, Sony’s 'Chosen' Starts Shooting In Australia

iQiyi and Sony’s Chinese-language adaptation of US drama Chosen has started shooting in Australia with Lan Cheng-lung and Deng Jiajia heading the cast.

Australia & New Zealand

Presto To Shut Down; Quickflix Sold To US Investor

Australia’s streaming sector went through a major contraction this week with the announcement that Presto will close in January, while Quickflix has been sold to a US investor.

Australia & New Zealand

Streaming Overtakes Pay-TV In Australia

Australia now has more people paying for streaming services, such as Netflix, Stan and Presto, than for conventional pay-TV, according to a new report from Roy Morgan Research.

Australia & New Zealand

Australia’s Quickflix Enters Administration

Australia’s brutally competitive streaming wars have claimed another victim, with Perth-based Quickflix announcing that it has entered voluntary administration.

Australia & New Zealand

Is Netflix Serving Australia Sizzle Or Sausage?

Advertising from local competitors aside, Netflix appears to be dominating Australia's VOD market just six months after launch.