Untangling the knotty myths of video compression
Ever create an awesome video that looks completely off after uploading? Then you know how important video compression is and how...
Make Your Wide Exterior Shots Shine with This Simple Post Production Trick
Sometimes you just want your wide exterior and landscape shots to jump off the screen. This deceptively simple trick can help...
Hou Hsiao-hsien Explains Why He Left the Commercial Film Industry
"I've already created what I feel is the only way I can make movies." Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's movies are rich...
Singapore International Film Festival to let audiences vote for favourites
Vote for your favourite film of the Singapore International Film Festival and get to watch it again on the closing day....
Indiewire: 8 Powerful Dramas About Coming Of Age in Captivity
When the coming-of-age story meets the captivity drama, the results are often powerful, complex and hard to shake. "Beasts of No...
Four love stories in one film
A $1-million anthology movie featuring four stories by four directors will centre on the theme of love Following the resounding success...
Call for entries: Canada Shorts – Canadian & International Short Film Fest
Canadian Shorts is founded to celebrate the outstanding work of independent short films across Canada and around the world, regardless of...
Call for entries: Singapore Lift-off Film Festival
Lift-Off Film Festival Global Network is a international network of independent cinema, which supports aspiring filmmakers to develop their professional career....
Rape film banned in India gets Meryl Streep’s backing for Oscar
NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A film banned by Indian authorities about the deadly rape of a young...
Twitch Film Review: THE ASSASSIN, An Unqualified Success, Or, A Studied Bit Of Installation Art
The first thing that strikes you in The Assassin is the quiet. Hou Hsiao-Hsien's ruminative tone-poem, about a Tang Dynasty sell-sword...
Trailer: Turtles Can Fly
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRCWEEYxtCo[/embed] A band of orphans at the troubled Iraqi-Turkish border search for mines to sell, a risk-laden venture that mirrors the...
Trailer: Fragment (2015)
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpwnixTXitk[/embed] FRAGMENT is an omnibus film celebrating the strength and diversity of South-East Asian independent cinema. Made up of a collage...