Chinese-Speaking Markets
Chewing Gum, the debut feature of Taiwanese writer-director Lee Yi-shan, won the Grand Prize of NT$1m ($32,000) at this year’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion.
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France’s Tatino Films is launching three new Pop Up film residencies with partners in Central and SE-Asia.
Middle East
Red Sea Souk selected 24 projects from the Arab and African region for its projects market, in addition to six works-in-progress.
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QCinema Project Market, the official industry programme of the QCinema Film Festival, has selected 20 projects for its first edition.
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Mylab+@Jogja has selected six projects in development, which are focusing on Indonesian co-production, for its inaugural edition.
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Scheduled to take place November 25 to December 2, JAFF 2023 will screen 205 films from 25 countries across the Asia Pacific region.
Festivals
The Silver Gateway Award went to Bahadur – The Brave, directed by Diwa Shah, while the Special Jury Award went to Kanu Behl’s Agra.
Festivals
Tatami, directed by Iranian filmmakers Zar Amir and Guy Nattiv, was awarded the Special Jury Prize.
Southeast Asia
Purin Pictures has selected four projects from the Philippines and one from Indonesia in its autumn 2023 funding round.
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The list below highlights noteworthy Southeast Asian film projects that were completed and premiered at international film festivals in 2023. Nationality of the director is in brackets after their names, but nationality of the projects is harder to determine as most are multi-territory co-productions. ANDRAGOGY Dir: Wregas Bhanuteja (Indonesia) Prod:
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India’s Film Bazaar has selected 20 fiction projects and 12 documentary projects for this year’s Co-production Market in Goa.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Wei Shujun’s Only The River Flows was presented with best film in the festival's Fei Mu Awards.