India: Telugu film industry workers extend strike
Striking workers from the Telugu film industry, including technicians, lighting, production and women's-production workers, rejected the Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber of...
FILM
Youtube time limits soon to be a thing of the past
Back during the summer, YouTube raised the time limit on video uploads to 15 minutes for all users. There was much...
Philippine’s biggest cinema chain goes fully digital
Now, it's SM's turn to go fully digital. Following the movie and TV industries' leap to digitization, the country's biggest chain of...
“Cinema of Globalization”
Every year, the Oscar category for Best Foreign Language Film pits nations against each other, but this year's five nominees -...
Aku Tak Bodoh
Does a Singapore film need a remake so soon? I'm not sure, and judging by the end product of Aku Tak...
Singapore’s Best Films
It's an exciting time for Singaporean cinema. From Cannes to Jeonju and everywhere in between, Singaporean films have become a fixture....
Chinese, International Producers Beat Path to Co-Productions
Producers and movie industry advocates visiting the Beijing International Film Festival's first full day on Sunday from around the world joined...
Production Talk – “Tabula Rasa” by Malcolm Ong
The film was originally made to compete in the 2010 Creative Video Awards organised by SMA, to fit the competition theme...
A big road indeed for Singaporean independent film-maker Alec Tok
The small community of independent film-makers in Singapore is going to have one less talented director as Alec Tok, an independent film-maker...
Japanese Survivors Shaded by Puzzlement and Sorrow
Kaneto Shindo's "Children of Hiroshima" was released in Japan in 1952, when the memories of World War II and the dropping...
Filming social changes
Calls for social change have been with us over the centuries; it is seen in history's peasant uprisings, revolutions, suffragette demonstrations...
The Chaser writer now based in Singapore
THE man responsible for the nail-biting, blood-chilling 2008 South Korean blockbuster The Chaser, Lee Shinho, now lives in Singapore. A renowned...