Three Chinese movies to vie for crown at Venice
The 68th annual Venice Film Festival held in Venice, Italy, is scheduled to open on Aug. 31 and will last until...
Chinese Movie Theaters To Present Live U.S. Operas
Movie theaters in China have been added to the National CineMedia (NCM) network that is scheduled to present 11 live and...
Indonesia’s Picture Perfect Director
Like many of us, filmmaker Garin Nugroho recently returned to his hometown for Idul Fitri to rejuvenate after a year of...
Fil-Am performers soar in Hollywood
Filipina-American Anna Maria Perez De Tagle is set to cross over from TV to theater as she marks her Broadway debut...
240 films vie for 5th Asia Pacific Awards
The fifth Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) will have 240 films from 43 countries. The films, among the ones from Samoa...
Film financing forum draws new insights
Last month, we attended Cinemalaya's first-ever Manila Film Financing Forum, organized by the Philippine Independent Filmmakers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (IFC) to gain...
Fun, food and films
Join in the fun at the second Indonesian Festival. The 2nd Auckland Indonesian Festival will be held at the Auckland Performing...
SCTV Widely Criticized for Giving In to FPI
Harsh criticisms, including from moderate Muslims, of both the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and SCTV's decision to cancel broadcasting the controversial...
CINEMALAYA 2011: CUCHERA REVIEW
Joseph Israel Laban's Cuchera, a rightfully shocking exposé of the lives of low-rent drug mules, one of the drug mules, opens...
People love movies about maids
I don't think anybody thought this weekend was going to be anything great in the first place, but with that bitch-and-a-half...
Tibaldo: Screen education and Luzon’s first cinematheque
ALMOST every child of the second half of the last century grew up in a world dominated by popular media such...
Indie filmmaker John Sayles to make appearances at IU Cinema as highlight of 2011-12 season
Independent filmmaker and two-time Oscar nominee John Sayles will deliver a lecture, answer questions and introduce screenings of three of his...