Staff Picks: Films We Are Still Looking Forward to In 2020
It may feel like a decade has passed but we have finally reached the halfway point of 2020. To describe this...
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Updating the Romance Genre for the Modern Age – An Interview with The Inciting Incident Romance Round Winner, Lee Eun Ho
The second round of The Inciting Incident (TII) competition ran from April to June 2020, with the theme of romance. Regardless...
A Deep Dive Into Southeast Asia’s Best Shorts – Personal Picks From the Lockdown Cinema Club
With the coronavirus pandemic upsetting virtually all industries, a group of Filipino filmmakers joined forces to provide support for film workers...
The Man Who Brought Small-Town Charm to Bollywood — A Tribute to Sushant Singh Rajput
It seems like just yesterday that I was writing my previous tribute to one of Bollywood’s finest, Irrfan Khan. I remember...
Connecting the ‘DOTs’ of Human Connection: A Feature Film Made in Lockdown
(Shishir Sharma as Roy & Suman Nagarkar as Yamuna) Writer & Director: Shilpa Krishnan ShuklaVirtual DOP & Editor: Mathew Jenif Joseph Produced...
An Abridged Initiation to the World of ‘Artstream’ Films
Now that we have taken a brief look at mainhouse films, it’s time to take a step up into the slightly...
Unseen Perspectives Take Centre Stage – Queerness Represented in Asian Films
June is Pride Month and this is usually the time when solidarity events are held in celebration of the LGBTQ+ community,...
Yuga J Vardhan’s Sincere and Truthful Storytelling Clinches Top Prize at SMHFF Short Film Youth Competition
Director: Yuga J VardhanProducer: Yuga J Vardhan, Sadesh NambiarDirector of Photography: Sadesh NambiarStory: Yuga J Vardhan, D Vel MuruganScreenplay: D Vel...
Sound & Colour: Masayoshi Yamasaki’s ‘One more time, One more chance’ in Makoto Shinkai’s ‘5 Centimeters Per Second’
Sound & Colour is a new column where we talk about memorable pairings of music and film. Think “Ride Of The...
Psychosinematics: Behind the Guilty Pleasure of Reality TV
All the shows mentioned in this article are available on hayu, reality on-demand, and you can check them out with a...
Hong Kong and Taiwan Are Cultural Powerhouses. That Terrifies Beijing.
The successes of Hong Kong, Taiwan and the rest of the Chinese diaspora have always been an embarrassment for Beijing. Not...
meWATCH’s Curation of Tamil Movies – A Welcome Surprise
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital consumption of content is at an all-time high. With filming and production on...