NEWS: Doha Film Institute Steps Up Documentaries and TV Series Grants
The Doha Film Institute, which is at Cannes as a co-financier of Elia Suleiman’s competition entry “It Must Be Heaven,” has announced...
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NEWS: Seven Films Receive Finance Through Thailand Incentives Scheme
Seven international films have benefited from $2.14 million (THB68 million) in cash rebates since Thailand launched a production incentive program at the Cannes...
NEWS: From Singapore to Malaysia – Markets Leading the Expansion of Southeast Asian Cinema
Domestic box office records are being set across Southeast Asia, more screens are being built, and more people are going to...
NEWS: Singaporean Director-Producer Anthony Chen Builds Strong Slate
Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen, who won Cannes’ Camera d’Or with his feature debut Ilo Ilo in 2013, and was chosen by Variety as...
NEWS: Indie Filmmaking Is About to Get More Expensive in the U.S.
Visual storyteller, Craig Mieritz writes: The trade war that has been simmering between the U.S. and China is about to expand...
NEWS: Singaporean Film Biz Builds Bright Future
Increasingly, they are winning prizes at international festivals. A Land Imagined won the Golden Leopard in Locarno last year, while 18 months...
NEWS: Awkwafina to Receive Maui Film Festival Shining Star Award
Awkwafina will receive the Shining Star Award at this year’s Maui Film Festival. The 20th annual gathering runs from June 12-16. The award...
NEWS: Singapore Filmmakers Ride Local Film Production Boom
The Singaporean film industry is experiencing an unprecedented production boom. At least 14 homegrown films are due to release this year, a...
NEWS: South Korea Celebrates 100 Years of Cinema
In 1966, the Korean government and filmmakers agreed to designate Oct. 27, 1919, as “the day of cinema,” because “Fight for...
NEWS: Quasi Ban Imposed on Award-Winning Indonesian Film
The Indonesian film Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku (Memories of My Body) is winning awards and accolades around the world. But at home in Indonesia,...
NEWS: Gong Li to Receive Women in Motion Award at Cannes
Actress Gong Li will become the first person of Asian descent to win the Kering Group and Cannes Film Festival’s annual women in motion award. The...
NEWS: Star Wars Takes A Three Year Break From the Movies
The Walt Disney Company has just published the studio’s updated release schedule, and among several other shifts and announcements, we’ve learned...