Event celebrates Hanoi millennium, seeks to jump-start local industry
The first Vietnam International Film Festival follows the official celebrations of Hanoi's millennium, and attempts to jump-start a movie industry. The...
Mumbai Film Festival: How to handle 200 films in eight days
The 12th Mumbai Film Festival presented by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) is pregnant with promise. From October...
Obama ‘trapped’ by Bollywood kidnap comedy
Ahead of Barack Obama's visit to India next month, Bollywood has come up with a comedy kidnap movie woven around the...
Kollywood chooses Malta over Italy and France
Indian films generally start with a dance sequence in a picturesque place and this is where Malta comes into the picture,...
Asian films score at Sitges
Asian films won several of the many prizes on offer at the Sitges fantasy film festival in Catalonia (7-17 Oct). In...
Vicki Zhao wins Best Actress
Chinese actress Vicki Zhao was crowned Best Actress but it was an appearance by Chinese star Zhang Ziyi that titillated the...
Funnyman gets serious
70-year- old actor Richard Ng can be seen in his fourth Singapore Channel 5 series, Silver Lining, every Tuesday at 8.30pm....
“Samson and Delilah” Director Warwick Thornton: “A Camera is a Weapon”
Cannes Camera D'Or 2009 winner Warwick Thornton's "Samson and Delilah" starts screening in New York City today. The film went on...
Boot-y call
There's more to Indian cinema than Bollywood kitsch. Examples are to be found in the South Asian International Film Festival, running...
Is it the End of the Reel for the Jakarta International Film Festival?
When JiFFest debuted in Jakarta, Asian countries such as Singapore and South Korea already had international-scale film festivals. Unlike music and...
Unrequited love, dirty linen and the monsoons
Kiran Rao is far from classic Bollywood; she is new Mumbai. She didn't grow up seeing Bollywood films. Her cinematic influences...
Journo on the move
For investigative journalist Patricia Elliott, travel is hardly ever an excuse to relax. Elliott first came to Thailand in 1989 after...