Southeast Asia
Purin Pictures Spring 2023: Funding News
Purin Pictures has announced the five projects selected for grants in its Spring 2023 funding round, including two from Vietnam.
Europe
'Abang Adik' Becomes First Malaysian Film To Win Golden Mulberry At FEFF Udine
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
CANNES 2023 LINE-UP: Titles Selected From Asia, Africa & Midde East
List of titles selected for Cannes Official Selection, Critics Week and Directors Fortnight from Asia, Africa and the Middle East with sales agents.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
FEFF Focus Asia 2023: Full Line-Up
Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, has announced the line-up of projects selected for its Focus Asia industry platform.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
‘Stonewalling’, ‘Totem’ Win Firebird Awards At Hong Kong Film Festival
Stonewalling, co-directed by Huang Ji and Otsuka Ryuji, and Mexican director Lila Avilés’s Totem both won Firebird Awards at this year's HKIFF.
Festivals
Indonesia’s 'Like & Share' Takes Grand Prix At Osaka Asian Film Festival
Indonesian filmmaker Gina S. Noer’s Like & Share was presented with the Grand Prix best picture award at this year’s Osaka Asian Film Festival (March 10-19) in Japan.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Sasha Chuk’s ‘Fly Me To The Moon’ Wins Five Awards At HAF
Taiwanese filmmaker Lien Chien-Hung's Salli and The Poison Cat, from China's Guan Tian, also picked up multiple awards.
News
Full Circle Lab Philippines Unveils 15 Projects For Fifth Edition
Line-up includes new projects from the Philippines' Martika Ramirez Escobar and Myanmar's Maung Sun.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Bridging The Dragon To Explore Euro-Asian Collaboration At EFM
Two-day forum expands BTD's Sino-European focus to the rest of East Asia.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
HAF Works-in-Progress 2023: Full Line-Up
Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum has selected 15 Work-in-Progress projects, in addition to the 28 in-development projects previously announced.
Africa
‘Le Spectre De Boko Haram’ Wins Tiger Award In Rotterdam
Cameroonian filmmaker Cyrielle Raingou’s Le Spectre De Boko Haram was presented with the Tiger Award at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam.
News
India’s ProducerLAND Launches Project Accelerator Programme ‘Ascent’
Former Memento sales chief Tanja Meissner, German producer Roman Paul and Film Constellation’s Fabien Westerhoff are among the mentors on the three-module programme.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum 2023: Full Line-Up
Anthony Chen, Fruit Chan and Marco Mueller are among the filmmakers producing projects from emerging filmmakers at this year's HAF.
News
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.
News
‘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.
Chinese-Speaking Markets
‘Coo-Coo 043’, ‘Limbo’ Triumph At Taiwan's 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.
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.