Imira inks pre-ATF sales
Barcelona-based animation house Imira Entertainment has sold a number of programmes across Asia ahead of December's Asian Television Forum (ATF). Skylife...
Taiwan Demands ‘Balanced Approach” From China
Taiwan has asked China to desist from attempts to humiliate it in international fora, in the strongest warning yet from the...
Film-maker explains censorship in Burma
Despite the junta's tight media restrictions, two Australian film-makers, Hugh Piper and Helen Barrow, managed to spend a full month working...
Tokyo FILMex Goes to Eleven
International film festivals can be read as cultural barometers, with recent trends in cinema echoing broader shifts in the world system...
Thailand bans gay movie
Thailand's official censor has banned the commercial release of Insects in The Backyard, a gay-themed film directed by Tanwarin Sukkhapisit. The film...
Indian cinema proclaims its class and diversity
One of the less appreciated strengths of the Indian film industry is its diversity. That applies at industry and infrastructure level...
FromMovie launches with three-film slate
Start-up FromMovie Entertainment has announced its first slate of films. The company, which describes itself as "an entertainment group engaging in...
Film music sends Central Railways cash registers ringing
The music launch of filmmaker Farah Khan's home production Tees Maar Khan had all the usual trappings of a typical Bollywood...
Win-win deals for film producers and TV in India
Always strapped for cash, film producers have found new and willing financiers in television broadcasters. TV channel are striking innovative deals...
Only 5 women make the grade at Kolkata film festival
Of the 127 films to be screened this year at the 16th Kolkata Film Festival (KFF) - the second oldest international...
Man, Jack feels like a woman
Today got an exclusive look into his dressing room where he endures a two-and-a-half-hour make-up session every time he gets into...
Money talks in Southeast Asia cinema
Governments in South East Asia are slowly but surely cottoning on to the power of film, both from an economical point...