Insiders discuss how to build a global following for Chinese films
Despite a panorama of themes spanning history, relationships and social changes, the Chinese films shown at the 2011 Toronto International Film...
INTERVIEWS
Star Vs. Star: Are film critics worth their salt?
Quite a few things in cinema transcend logic, and this is one of them. Films that stick like a bone in...
Best of Toronto: Oscar candidates and indie breakouts
One journalist friend of mine describes the Toronto International Film Festival as an exercise in chaos theory or, to put it...
‘I wanted a part in his stories’
Local film-maker Eric Khoo is so enamoured of his latest film Tatsumi that he couldn't resist "appearing" in it himself. It...
‘Halaw’ cited at NY Film Festival
Just a year after it debuted at the Cinemalaya "“ and mere months after bagging the Special Mention prize at the...
Mission: To get bums on seats
WHY is a popular Gold 90 FM radio deejay, erstwhile sports and game show TV host curating the 24th Singapore International...
Pupil makes shortlist in Tony Blair Foundation film competition
A schoolboy's three-minute movie about how faith steered his family through adversity has been shortlisted for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation's...
For Michelle Yeoh, The Lady is role of lifetime
For action star Michelle Yeoh, one of Asia's best known actresses, the chance to play Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi...
Malaysian rapper skewers racial ties in new film
But Wee Meng Chee -- better known by the alias Namewee -- characteristically pulls few punches in "Nasi Lemak 2.0," an...
‘Bourne Identity’ film scenes to be shot in PHL
Some scenes from the upcoming fourth installment of the "Bourne Identity" series of movies will be shot in the Philippines, Oscar-nominated...
The brilliant Brillante Mendoza and SM: Bringing indie films closer to the public
BRILLANTE Mendoza, international award winning director, views his films as his social responsibility. His films, most of which remain obscured from...
Hapa-Palooza revels in fest of ethnic mashups
Growing up, Zarah Martz never felt like she fully belonged. With an Indonesian father and a German mother, she spent part...