NEWS: Vietnamese Movie ‘Song Lang’ Honoured in Australia
Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnamese movie “Song Lang” (The Tap Box) by producer Ngo Thanh Van has continued to win new international...
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NEWS: Award-Winning Vietnamese Film ‘The Third Wife’ Pulled From Local Release Over Intimate Scenes Involving Teenage Actress
Vietnamese director Ash Mayfair’s multiple award-winning drama The Third Wife has been removed from cinemas in her homeland after growing public concerns over...
NEWS: ‘Origin Story’ Filmmaker Kulap Vilaysack Brings Lao Culture to Hollywood Hills
The 'Bajillion Dollar Propertie$' creator celebrated the release of her documentary at her home last Friday night. In the Venn diagram...
NEWS: Cambodian Filmmaker Tells The Untold Story of Jungle Guard
Most of the monks in Cambodia stay in pagodas and spread the teachings of the Buddha to his followers. But one...
NEWS: Industry Veteran Gary Mak Manages $130m Hong Kong Film Development Fund
Hong Kong film industry veteran Gary Mak has been appointed as the new Secretary-General of the Hong Kong Film Development Council,...
NEWS: ‘Friend Zone’ Is First Thai Film to Be Shot on Sony’s CineAlta VENICE
Asia Pacific, 22 May 2019 - Thailand’s role as a movie-making hub in Southeast Asia is growing from strength to strength....
NEWS: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month – Actors’ Experiences in Hollywood
“There’s a quote that, ‘You cannot be what you cannot see,’ and we think there’s a lot of truth in that,”...
NEWS: China TV Cuts off Hollywood Productions and Broadcasts Anti-US War Films
The movie channel of China’s state broadcaster China Central Television has reportedly pulled from its schedules not only all Hollywood productions...
NEWS: ‘Moral Panic’ Over Gender Identity Film Sparks Backlash in Indonesia
Director gets death threats as 93,000 sign petition to have ‘LGBT film’ Memories of My Body banned lest young ‘imitate behaviour’...
NEWS: Philippine’s Cinemalaya Foundation Revived a ‘Dead’ Film Industry
MANILA -- Nearly two decades ago, the Philippine film industry was widely considered "dead." Now it is regarded as one of...
NEWS: Streaming Service Le Cinéma Club Announces Reboot
Film geeks aren’t hurting for options when it comes to feeding their addictions. Between theatrical releases and streaming services (Criterion Channel,...
NEWS: China Box Office Weekend Chart Dominated By Non-Chinese Films
Unusually, all of the top five films at the China box office this weekend were non-Chinese. That’s a relatively rare occurrence, as audiences...