Streamlined Insights
Although this year’s Cannes line-up is one of the most commercial in a while, it’s also one that highlights how much cross-cultural collaboration we still have in international cinema, and how borders continue to blend and shift, despite the divisions thrown up by politics, war and
Africa
UPDATED: A list of films and their sales agents selected for Cannes, Critics Week & Directors Fortnight from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Africa
Mubi has acquired North America and a slew of other territories on Diop's second film.
Europe
Special Jury Awards in the Tiger Competition went to India's Kiss Wagon and Australia's Flathead.
Africa
Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund (WCF) awarded 11 production and three distribution grants in its latest funding round.
Africa
Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund selected 10 projects for its 2023 Script and Project Development Support scheme.
Europe
Critical Zone won the Golden Leopard in Locarno's international competition, while Dreaming & Dying took the same honours in Cinema of the Present.
Streamlined Insights
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
Funding News
Hubert Bals Fund has selected eight projects for its HBF+Europe: Minority Co-production scheme and four projects for its first ever HBF+ Europe: Post-production Scheme.
Europe
Venice Gap-Financing Market (Sept 1-3), held as part of the Venice Production Bridge at Venice film festival, will present 62 projects from around the world.
Festivals
Japanese and Southeast Asian films won several major awards across the festival, while African cinema triumphed in Un Certain Regard.
Streamlined Insights
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
Europe
Jin Ong’s Abang Adik was awarded with the Golden Mulberry and two other awards at this year’s Far East Film Festival (April 21-29) in Udine, Italy.
Africa
List of titles selected for Cannes Official Selection, Critics Week and Directors Fortnight from Asia, Africa and the Middle East with sales agents.
Africa
Cameroonian filmmaker Cyrielle Raingou’s Le Spectre De Boko Haram was presented with the Tiger Award at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
HBF has selected 11 projects for its Script and Project Development Support initiative in the Winter 2022 funding round.
Streamlined Insights
A few friends will know that I left Cannes film festival early because my father, who had a long illness, reached the end of that journey and I went to sit with him and my mum for his final few days. While I’m obviously heartbroken, I’m also extremely
Middle East & North Africa
Korean talent took two of the top awards, with Park Chan-wook winning best director and Song Kang-ho taking best actor.