All Asia articles – Page 417
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NewsMogador turns on Television
Germany’s Mogador Films and France’s Eaux Vives Productions have boarded social drama Television, to be directed by Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Farooki.
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NewsNFDC boards Mukherjee’s Tasher Desh
Film Bazaar organiser the National Film Development Corp (NFDC) has boarded Bengali filmmaker Kaushik Mukherjee’s Tasher Desh, one of a growing number of international co-productions on the organisation’s slate.
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NewsKashyap conjures up Phantom Films
Indian director-producer Anurag Kashyap has teamed up with three fellow filmmakers to launch a content-driven production outfit Phantom Films.
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NewsChinese exhibitors to boycott Zhang Yimou’s Flowers of War
Eight major cinema circuits in China plan to boycott the release of WWII drama after production outfit requests ticket price rise and increased revenue share
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NewsFinecut closes more post-AFM deals for titles including Leafie
South Korean sales company Finecut has announced further deals from the AFM led by Leafie, Korea’s highest grossing animation, which sold to Ascot Elite for German-speaking territories and Conquest Filmes for Brazil.
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NewsLove Is Not Blind leaves Immortals behind at China box office
Low-budget local rom-com takes more than $30m in its first week to leave Hollywood alternatives trailing in its wake
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NewsConcerns arise on Australian stories and voices surviving
At annual Screen Producers Association of Australia conference, producers want to make sure local content delivery gets support.
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FeaturesIndian audiences catch indie fever
The local box-office success of a number of non-mainstream Indian films has prompted financiers to take note. Now the challenge is to win over distributors.
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NewsHalaw wins APSA NETPAC development prize
Filipino first time feature director Sheron R. Dayoc picked up the $5,000 prize on the eve of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
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NewsLee Byung-hun to star in Choo Chang-min's Masquerade
Shooting is due to begin on the $8m costume drama for South Korean studio CJ E&M.
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NewsFortissimo takes on IDFA competitor El Gusto
Fortissimo Films has taken on international rights outside of France to Safinez Bousbia’s documentary El Gusto, which screens this week in Competition at IDFA.
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NewsExperts convene in Brisbane to discuss creating new lab for Asia Pacific
A thinktank will convene on Saturday in Brisbane to discuss the possibility of creating an Asia Pacific Screen Laboratory.
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NewsIFFI to open with Gonzales’ Consul Of Bordeaux
The Consul Of Bordeaux, directed by Portuguese filmmaker Manuel Gonzales, will open this year’s International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which takes place in the former Portuguese colony of Goa (Nov 23-Dec 3).
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NewsKurdistan to host first British film festival
City without cinemas to host British film festival, programme includes The Queen, Made in Dagenham, Billy Elliot
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NewsArirang wins inaugural Brisbane documentary prize
South Korea’s Kim Ki-duk has won Australia’s richest documentary award with Arirang, six months after taking the top prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
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NewsWriter/director Paul Cox turns liver transplant into film idea
Writer/director Paul Cox is planning to make a new film, Force of Destiny, about an artist who survives a liver transplant and falls in love.
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India's NFDC unveils 22 projects for Film Bazaar
India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) has unveiled the 22 projects that will take part in this year’s Film Bazaar co-production market (Nov 24-27) in Goa, including projects from Danis Tanovic and India’s Dibakar Banerjee and Ketan Mehta.
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NewsUTV, Imtiaz Ali team for My Girlfriend Is An Agent remake
Mumbai-based UTV Motion Pictures and Indian filmmaker Imtiaz Ali [pictured] will co-produce an official Hindi remake of Korean romantic action comedy My Girlfriend Is An Agent.
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NewsChina’s Zhang Yimou to receive FIAPF Award
Zhang Yimou, whose latest film The Flowers Of War is the Chinese foreign language Oscar submission, is to receive the annual award from the International Federation of Film Producers Associations.