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All Asia articles – Page 331
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FeaturesSouth Asia’s road to Oscar glory
From tales of lesbian romance, errant villagers and unwanted pregnancy to a road movie and dreams of escape, Screen profiles the five South Asian films submitted to the Oscars’ foreign-language film category.
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News'Poet' to world premiere in Goa
EXCLUSIVE: Montreal-based Item 7 has secured a world premiere for its latest film Meetings With A Young Poet and brought on Paris-based Films Distribution to handle sales.
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NewsFox Star's Metro Manila remake takes shape
Fox Star Studios’ CEO Vijay Singh has revealed further details of its Hindi remake of UK production Metro Manila, which the studio is co-producing with the Bhatt brothers’ Vishesh Films.
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NewsSingh’s Fourth Direction finds its way
Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction is scheduled to start shooting in mid-January, 2014 after securing support from French funding body CNC.
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NewsAnup Singh to jump Over The Rainbow
Qissa director Anup Singh is working on an adaptation of UK author Paul Pickering’s novel Over The Rainbow. The film will be produced by Switzerland-based Saskia Vischer Productions.
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NewsChannel 4 takes Film Bazaar titles
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has acquired four films that have screened at Film Bazaar including India’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
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FeaturesFilm Bazaar: Appetite growing for Indian cinema
Films nurtured by Film Bazaar are beginning to secure distribution both at home and overseas, but challenges remain for independent Indian cinema. Liz Shackleton reports.
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NewsFox Star acquires Lucia remake rights
Fox Star Studios has bought the Hindi-language remake rights for crowd-funded Kannada-language drama Lucia.
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FeaturesSri Lankan filmmakers wait for peace dividend
A lack of government support, digital cinemas and professional producers are hampering the development of the film industry in post-war Sri Lanka.
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NewsRAM picks up Moebius for US
RAM Releasing has picked up North American rights on the controversial Kim Ki-duk film Moebius from South Korean sales company Finecut.
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NewsRecyclewala unveils slate, tech labs
Anand Gandhi and Sohum Shah’s Recyclewala Films is branching out with a slate of new projects and the launch of several tech-oriented initiatives, including a transmedia arm.
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NewsPrimexchange hunts Indo-European ties
The Primexchange co-production workshop (Nov 18-24) is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year with a strong line-up of ten projects, along with guest project In Search Of A Miracle, based on William Dalrymple’s book Nine Lives.
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NewsOberoi’s Island City starts production
Principal photography has started on Island City, written and directed by Indian filmmaker Ruchika Oberoi, which participated in NFDC Screenwriters’ Lab in 2012.
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NewsBarron to produce Q’s English debut
Kolkata-based filmmaker Q (aka Kaushik Mukherjee) is gearing up to make his English-language debut, Brahman Naman, to be produced by Steve Barron’s UK-based Riley Productions.
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NewsRigor Mortis sells for Fortissimo
Fortissimo Films closed key territories at AFM on Juno Mak’s Chinese vampire film and Hong Kong box office hit.
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NewsJust Friends? gets Korean court approval
The Supreme Court of Korea yesterday (Nov 14) overturned a teenager restricted rating given to Kim Jho Gwang-soo’s gay romance Just Friends? by the Korea Media Ratings Board (KMRB).
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NewsYouku Tudou's Zhu to keynote at ATF
Youku Tudou’s Chief Content Officer, Sunny Xiangyang Zhu [pictured], will deliver the opening keynote at the 2013 Asia TV Forum & Market on Dec 3 in Singapore.