The Asian Film Awards Academy is proud to announce the launch of the International Film Camp (IFC), a groundbreaking initiative aims to nurtue and empower the next generation of Asian filmmakers. With patronages of Hong Kong Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau and Instituto Cultural of Macau, and sponsored by Create Hong Kong, Film Development Fund and Sands China Ltd., the IFC will provide a unique platform for emerging filmmakers to interact with industry professionals, gain valuable insights into the creative and commercial aspects of cinema, and receive production funding and distribution opportunities through the Asian Film Awards Academy.
Press conference of the International Film Camp was held on 29 Sep 2023 in an unprecedented way simultaneously Hong Kong and Macau. The event was a great success thanks to the presence of our honourable guests, including Afaa Chairman Dr. Wilfred Wong, the Vice President of Macau Cultural Affairs Bureau Mr. Cheang Kai Meng,...
Press conference of the International Film Camp was held on 29 Sep 2023 in an unprecedented way simultaneously Hong Kong and Macau. The event was a great success thanks to the presence of our honourable guests, including Afaa Chairman Dr. Wilfred Wong, the Vice President of Macau Cultural Affairs Bureau Mr. Cheang Kai Meng,...
- 11/8/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
All At Sea Together
The inaugural edition of the Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival will be held next month (Nov. 23-29) on the Japanese island of Okinawa. With a 40-title lineup, a competition and a robust international selection, the festival says its mission is to explore the ocean and Pacific regions [with] film acting as a global lens [that] allows us to bridge the gap between different islands, fostering an inclusive atmosphere in Okinawa, where diverse cultures and nationalities converge.”
The festival will open with “From Okinawa With Love,” by Sunairi Hiroshi, which premiered at the Dmz Documentary Festival in Korea, and tracks the work of a photographer who investigated the African American G.I. scene around the island’s U.S. air bases. It will close with “We Are Still Here,” a portmanteau film by indigenous people from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
The competition section...
The inaugural edition of the Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival will be held next month (Nov. 23-29) on the Japanese island of Okinawa. With a 40-title lineup, a competition and a robust international selection, the festival says its mission is to explore the ocean and Pacific regions [with] film acting as a global lens [that] allows us to bridge the gap between different islands, fostering an inclusive atmosphere in Okinawa, where diverse cultures and nationalities converge.”
The festival will open with “From Okinawa With Love,” by Sunairi Hiroshi, which premiered at the Dmz Documentary Festival in Korea, and tracks the work of a photographer who investigated the African American G.I. scene around the island’s U.S. air bases. It will close with “We Are Still Here,” a portmanteau film by indigenous people from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.
The competition section...
- 10/19/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Directors include Huang Hsin-yao, Tom Lin Shu-yu, Lam Sum, Ng Ka-leung and Daishi Matsunaga.
Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) has revealed a diverse selection of 46 films for its 2023 project market, including directors Huang Hsin-yao, Tom Lin Shu-yu and Hsu Chih-yen from Taiwan, Lam Sum and Ng Ka-leung from Hong Kong and Daishi Matsunaga from Japan
The market is scheduled to take place from November 20-22 during the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival with a the total prize pool of nearly $250,000 (Nt$8m), including a grand prize worth $32,000 (Nt$1m). All projects in the selection are eligible to...
Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) has revealed a diverse selection of 46 films for its 2023 project market, including directors Huang Hsin-yao, Tom Lin Shu-yu and Hsu Chih-yen from Taiwan, Lam Sum and Ng Ka-leung from Hong Kong and Daishi Matsunaga from Japan
The market is scheduled to take place from November 20-22 during the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival with a the total prize pool of nearly $250,000 (Nt$8m), including a grand prize worth $32,000 (Nt$1m). All projects in the selection are eligible to...
- 9/25/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The 2023 Golden Horse Film Project Promotion, the project market that accompanies the Golden Horse film festival and awards in Taiwan in November, has laid out a huge 64-title selection for its 2023 edition.
These include 39 film projects at various stages of development and financing; a further seven works in progress; and the 18-previously announced series at project stage.
The event, which runs Nov. 20-22, offers a $31,000 (Nt$1 million) first prize and a total prize pool of $250,000 (Nt$8 million) from sponsors and industry sources. All selected projects are also eligible to apply to two Taicca funding initiatives: the Creative Content Development Program and the International Co-funding Program.
Among the Taiwanese filmmakers: Huang Hsin-yao, the director of “The Great Buddha+” and “Classmates Minus,” takes on the legend of Taiwanese treasure hunters in “Super-Reasoning Treasure Hunt”; Tom Lin Shu-yu, director of “Winds of September” and “The Garden of Evening Mists,” teams up with Kimi Hsia...
These include 39 film projects at various stages of development and financing; a further seven works in progress; and the 18-previously announced series at project stage.
The event, which runs Nov. 20-22, offers a $31,000 (Nt$1 million) first prize and a total prize pool of $250,000 (Nt$8 million) from sponsors and industry sources. All selected projects are also eligible to apply to two Taicca funding initiatives: the Creative Content Development Program and the International Co-funding Program.
Among the Taiwanese filmmakers: Huang Hsin-yao, the director of “The Great Buddha+” and “Classmates Minus,” takes on the legend of Taiwanese treasure hunters in “Super-Reasoning Treasure Hunt”; Tom Lin Shu-yu, director of “Winds of September” and “The Garden of Evening Mists,” teams up with Kimi Hsia...
- 9/25/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Work-in-progress film project “The Remnant” is both a spotlight on those who feel powerless and also a very Hong Kong example of elements of the city pulling themselves up. “The Remnant” is one of the projects in the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) unspooling March 13-15 alongside Hong Kong’s Filmart market.
It tells the story of a former gangster who, upon his release from prison, sets up a laundry in an anonymous district and lives a quiet life. After property developers try to grab a rundown building, young gangsters try to throw people out of the building, drug addicts cause trouble and the old-timer heeds his neighbors’ calls and fights back.
Director Kwan Man-hin (nickname: “Mandrew”) developed the fictional project from a previous documentary he made about a former Triad member who went straight and became a well-respected restaurateur in Hong Kong’s To Kwa Wan district.
It tells the story of a former gangster who, upon his release from prison, sets up a laundry in an anonymous district and lives a quiet life. After property developers try to grab a rundown building, young gangsters try to throw people out of the building, drug addicts cause trouble and the old-timer heeds his neighbors’ calls and fights back.
Director Kwan Man-hin (nickname: “Mandrew”) developed the fictional project from a previous documentary he made about a former Triad member who went straight and became a well-respected restaurateur in Hong Kong’s To Kwa Wan district.
- 3/13/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
’The Dream, The Bubble, And The Shadow’ is from ‘Ip Man’ director Wilson Yip.
Hong Kong-based One Cool Pictures is launching a string of new titles featuring Louis Koo, Jennifer Yu, Kay Tse and Lim Min Chen as it returns to Hong Kong Filmart, the company’s first physical market since 2019.
The Dream, The Bubble, And The Shadow, directed by Wilson Yip, produced by Soi Cheang and starring Koo, reunites the same team behind 2017’s Paradox from the Spl franchise, which won Koo the best actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Asian Film Awards.
The upcoming suspense...
Hong Kong-based One Cool Pictures is launching a string of new titles featuring Louis Koo, Jennifer Yu, Kay Tse and Lim Min Chen as it returns to Hong Kong Filmart, the company’s first physical market since 2019.
The Dream, The Bubble, And The Shadow, directed by Wilson Yip, produced by Soi Cheang and starring Koo, reunites the same team behind 2017’s Paradox from the Spl franchise, which won Koo the best actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Asian Film Awards.
The upcoming suspense...
- 3/13/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Love them or hate them, online film events have become part of festival-goers’ lives. At the time that would have been the week just after Festival de Cannes, the whole world can come together to “attend” We Are One: A Global Film Festival. The event programmed by 21 renowned film festivals lists a good number of Asian films. In its selection, International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) offers the 2016 feature debut of Tracy Choi “Sisterhood”.
Sei (Gigi Leung/Fish Liew) lives in Taiwan and, with her husband, runs a small hotel. Despite she might be one of the most loved wives ever, she is not happy. And she drinks a lot. When she finds an ad about her estranged best friend Ling (Jennifer Yu) passing, she decides to return to Macau. Her trip into space becomes a trip into time too. Sei is to meet friends she left behind 15 years ago.
Sei (Gigi Leung/Fish Liew) lives in Taiwan and, with her husband, runs a small hotel. Despite she might be one of the most loved wives ever, she is not happy. And she drinks a lot. When she finds an ad about her estranged best friend Ling (Jennifer Yu) passing, she decides to return to Macau. Her trip into space becomes a trip into time too. Sei is to meet friends she left behind 15 years ago.
- 6/8/2020
- by Anomalilly
- AsianMoviePulse
Produced and organized by Tribeca Enterprises, We Are One joins together over 20 of the world’s premier film festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance, Toronto, and Tribeca, in celebration of some of the world’s most talented voices, and in a central effort to provide entertainment and relief to people globally, at a time when they need it most.
The digital festival provides audiences the opportunity to immerse themselves into new cultures, viewpoints, and perspectives from around the world that they wouldn’t typically be exposed to. We’re excited to share these voices with the world and would love your support.
The programme includes several films by female directors from across the globe. Here are the Asian titles directed by females in the online festival:
Iron Hammer / China / Premieres June 7 at 4:30pm Et
Synopsis: In her rousing and personal documentary debut, director Joan Chen charts the inspiring life...
The digital festival provides audiences the opportunity to immerse themselves into new cultures, viewpoints, and perspectives from around the world that they wouldn’t typically be exposed to. We’re excited to share these voices with the world and would love your support.
The programme includes several films by female directors from across the globe. Here are the Asian titles directed by females in the online festival:
Iron Hammer / China / Premieres June 7 at 4:30pm Et
Synopsis: In her rousing and personal documentary debut, director Joan Chen charts the inspiring life...
- 6/7/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Tribeca and Youtube have announced their full roster of titles for their unprecedented festival for these unprecedented times — We Are One: A Global Film Festival. In a unifying spirit reminiscent of Tribeca’s own post-9/11 beginnings, the festival flexes some curatorial practice by the biggest muscles on the market — including Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, and Annecy. We’ve taken the liberty to parse out their Asian titles for your viewing pleasure below. With a slate of festival features and star-studded panels, the festival will stream some of the best of what the circuit has to offer.
We Are One can be found (for free!) on youtube.com/weareone. The festival will run from May 29 to June 7.
Feature Films
“Amreeka”
Amreeka
When a Palestinian single mom and her teenage son immigrate to small-town Illinois, their dreams of an exciting future clash with the racism they encounter there in this dramedic Fipresci prizewinner.
We Are One can be found (for free!) on youtube.com/weareone. The festival will run from May 29 to June 7.
Feature Films
“Amreeka”
Amreeka
When a Palestinian single mom and her teenage son immigrate to small-town Illinois, their dreams of an exciting future clash with the racism they encounter there in this dramedic Fipresci prizewinner.
- 5/28/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
The full programme for the first Queer East Film Festival is announced. The curated series of screenings across London, with accompanying panel events, will explore identity, religion, family, adulthood and politics through queer relationships on screen, specifically from East and Southeast Asia.
Many have seen the significant progress of Lgbtq + rights across the world, but progress in Asia has been mixed. The festival invites everyone in the UK to be part of the discussion and celebrate diverse identities, cultures, and heritages of Asian and Asian diasporic communities who’ve often been excluded from mainstream discourse.
The programme is a mix of classic films and new releases, exploring how culture, law, history, and social norms have affected and built the current Asian queer landscape over 50 years of cinema.
Twenty-nine films, including 6 UK Premieres and 2 London Premieres, from 13 countries across Asia will be screened in cinemas across the capital to foster and...
Many have seen the significant progress of Lgbtq + rights across the world, but progress in Asia has been mixed. The festival invites everyone in the UK to be part of the discussion and celebrate diverse identities, cultures, and heritages of Asian and Asian diasporic communities who’ve often been excluded from mainstream discourse.
The programme is a mix of classic films and new releases, exploring how culture, law, history, and social norms have affected and built the current Asian queer landscape over 50 years of cinema.
Twenty-nine films, including 6 UK Premieres and 2 London Premieres, from 13 countries across Asia will be screened in cinemas across the capital to foster and...
- 3/15/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The International Film Festival & Awards Macao on Sunday signed twin agreements with institutions in Shanghai.
The Iffam, which is building towards its fourth edition in December, struck a collaboration agreement with the Shanghai International Film Festival. Separately, it is solidifying an existing informal arrangement with the Shanghai Film Art Academy concerning an exchange of students — Macau film makers Tracy Choi and Harriet Wong are already participating in this year’s Shanghai’s Siff Next activities. Signatures were put to both pacts on stage in Shanghai.
At the same event, Peter Chan Ho-sun, a leading director from Hong Kong, who has increasingly made his career in mainland China, was named as president of Iffam’s 2019 jury. The judges will decide the winners of the festival’s competition for first and second films.
“The high quality of (Chan’s) Pan-Asian films has stimulated the development of the Asian film industry in general.
The Iffam, which is building towards its fourth edition in December, struck a collaboration agreement with the Shanghai International Film Festival. Separately, it is solidifying an existing informal arrangement with the Shanghai Film Art Academy concerning an exchange of students — Macau film makers Tracy Choi and Harriet Wong are already participating in this year’s Shanghai’s Siff Next activities. Signatures were put to both pacts on stage in Shanghai.
At the same event, Peter Chan Ho-sun, a leading director from Hong Kong, who has increasingly made his career in mainland China, was named as president of Iffam’s 2019 jury. The judges will decide the winners of the festival’s competition for first and second films.
“The high quality of (Chan’s) Pan-Asian films has stimulated the development of the Asian film industry in general.
- 6/16/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
ustThe Competition line-up included 11 features from first- and second-time filmmakers.
The 3rd International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) unveiled its winners today (December 14), with Kwon Man-Ki’s redemption drama Clean Up receiving the best film prize.
The award, presented by filmmaker and Iffam jury president Chen Kaige, follows the film’s shared victory in the New Currents awards at Busan International Film Festival, where it premiered in October.
The Iffam jury awarded the jury prize to Barbara Sarasola-Day’s South America drug-trafficking story White Blood.
Gustav Möller’s Sundance 2018 hit The Guilty – Denmark’s foreign-language Oscar entry – won two awards:...
The 3rd International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) unveiled its winners today (December 14), with Kwon Man-Ki’s redemption drama Clean Up receiving the best film prize.
The award, presented by filmmaker and Iffam jury president Chen Kaige, follows the film’s shared victory in the New Currents awards at Busan International Film Festival, where it premiered in October.
The Iffam jury awarded the jury prize to Barbara Sarasola-Day’s South America drug-trafficking story White Blood.
Gustav Möller’s Sundance 2018 hit The Guilty – Denmark’s foreign-language Oscar entry – won two awards:...
- 12/14/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The 3rd International Film Festival & Awards‧Macao (Iffam) Project Market announced winners of four prizes totaling $40,000.
Macau-born director Tracy Choi's Lost Paradise won the Best Project Award; Argentine director Tamae Garateguy's Dogman received the Creative Excellence Award; Singapore director He Shuming's Ajooma was presented with the Best Co-production Award; and Wonderland, by director Chao Koi Wang from Macau, took the Macao Spirit Award.
The awards were chosen by a three-person jury comprising film director and screenwriter Evan Louis Katz, veteran film producer and investor Philip Lee and film industry training expert Jane Williams.
The Iffam Project Market was a ...
Macau-born director Tracy Choi's Lost Paradise won the Best Project Award; Argentine director Tamae Garateguy's Dogman received the Creative Excellence Award; Singapore director He Shuming's Ajooma was presented with the Best Co-production Award; and Wonderland, by director Chao Koi Wang from Macau, took the Macao Spirit Award.
The awards were chosen by a three-person jury comprising film director and screenwriter Evan Louis Katz, veteran film producer and investor Philip Lee and film industry training expert Jane Williams.
The Iffam Project Market was a ...
- 12/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The 3rd International Film Festival & Awards‧Macao (Iffam) Project Market announced winners of four prizes totaling $40,000.
Macau-born director Tracy Choi's Lost Paradise won the Best Project Award; Argentine director Tamae Garateguy's Dogman received the Creative Excellence Award; Singapore director He Shuming's Ajooma was presented with the Best Co-production Award; and Wonderland, by director Chao Koi Wang from Macau, took the Macao Spirit Award.
The awards were chosen by a three-person jury comprising film director and screenwriter Evan Louis Katz, veteran film producer and investor Philip Lee and film industry training expert Jane Williams.
The Iffam Project Market was a ...
Macau-born director Tracy Choi's Lost Paradise won the Best Project Award; Argentine director Tamae Garateguy's Dogman received the Creative Excellence Award; Singapore director He Shuming's Ajooma was presented with the Best Co-production Award; and Wonderland, by director Chao Koi Wang from Macau, took the Macao Spirit Award.
The awards were chosen by a three-person jury comprising film director and screenwriter Evan Louis Katz, veteran film producer and investor Philip Lee and film industry training expert Jane Williams.
The Iffam Project Market was a ...
- 12/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Prizes at Iffam Project Market also went to Ajooma, Dogman and Wonderland.
Macao filmmaker Tracy Choi’s Lost Paradise was presented with the Best Project Award at the close of the Iffam Project Market at the International Film Festival & Awards (Iffam) Macao.
The award, which comes with a cash prize of $15,000, is presented to a project with “the most profound qualities across all aspects of the production”.
Set to be Choi’s second feature following her critically-acclaimed Sisterhood (2017), Lost Paradise is the story of two high school girls whose friendship is affected when one of them starts an affair with her much older tutor.
Macao filmmaker Tracy Choi’s Lost Paradise was presented with the Best Project Award at the close of the Iffam Project Market at the International Film Festival & Awards (Iffam) Macao.
The award, which comes with a cash prize of $15,000, is presented to a project with “the most profound qualities across all aspects of the production”.
Set to be Choi’s second feature following her critically-acclaimed Sisterhood (2017), Lost Paradise is the story of two high school girls whose friendship is affected when one of them starts an affair with her much older tutor.
- 12/11/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Dickson Leach’s UK-China project is being produced by Christopher Granier-Deferre.
The Iffam Project Market (Ipm) has unveiled 14 films that will be presented during its event December 9-11.
They include the latest feature from UK director Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling), who will introduce her family drama Klepto, which is being produced by Christopher Granier-Deferre at Poisson Rouge Pictures and is a UK-China co-production.
Also on the list are South Korean director Song II-Kong’s romantic drama Love Song and the first fiction feature from documentary director Yan Ting Yuen, arthouse project Hong Kong Sister.
The event will run during...
The Iffam Project Market (Ipm) has unveiled 14 films that will be presented during its event December 9-11.
They include the latest feature from UK director Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling), who will introduce her family drama Klepto, which is being produced by Christopher Granier-Deferre at Poisson Rouge Pictures and is a UK-China co-production.
Also on the list are South Korean director Song II-Kong’s romantic drama Love Song and the first fiction feature from documentary director Yan Ting Yuen, arthouse project Hong Kong Sister.
The event will run during...
- 11/3/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Director Wong Chun’s debut feature Mad World has been awarded the top prize at Osaka Asian Film Festival 2017. The daring indie drama, which stars Eric Tsang and Shawn Yue, tackles issues of mental illness and the pressures of city life while exploring the relationship between a father and son. A jury comprised of filmmakers Monster Jimenez and Ho Yuhang and actress Nakanishi Miho offered the prize, stating: “We award Mad World the Grand Prix for its unflinching and sympathetic view of a neglected reality. It is harsh but tender, tragic but hopeful. The film is an act of love." Other winners included Most Promising Talent for Hong Konger Fish Liew for her excellent performance in Tracy Choi’s Sisterhood and the Yakushi Pearl Award for...
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- 3/12/2017
- Screen Anarchy
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