Stone to chair ScreenSingapore jury
US film director, Oliver Stone (pictured) will head the jury for the Asian Short Film Awards that will be part of...
Anime with Disaster Scenes Face Changes After Quake
Several anime with disaster scenes or themes face changes after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Other media are affected in...
Elusive filmmaker opens up
Forced to smile for a photo before our interview, filmmaker Zhang Lu reluctantly obliged, joking that his appearance clashed with the...
Film industry leader calls for less censorship
The director of China's largest and most influential state-run film company called for more favorable regulations and less restrictive government interference...
Disney Kills Robert Zemeckis’ “˜Yellow Submarine’
The Walt Disney Co. has deep-sixed Mars Needs Moms producer Robert Zemeckis' planned next project for the studio, the high-profile remake...
Bullets finds Love at Tribeca
The Tribeca Film Festival (20 Apr to 1 May) will host the international festival premiere of Let the Bullets Fly and...
Morgan Spurlock’s ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’ Brings Its Pitch to Austin
Morgan Spurlock's latest meta-doc, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, reaped another positive reaction from the crowd at the Paramount Theatre on...
Takahashi Gen
Since his debut in 1992, Heartless, Takahashi Gen has become a pivotal figure within the independent Asian film scene. Living between...
Japan’s Long Nuclear Disaster Film
Peering at the post-tsunami devastation in Japan on miniature YouTube windows or video-streaming displays from Japanese news outlets provokes not only...
Made-for-Internet movie debuts on YouTube
YouTube on Friday began showing what it said was the first feature-length Hollywood movie created specifically for the Internet. "Girl Walks...
H.K.’s Filmart gets Beijing accent
The 15 years of Hong Kong Filmart have been a busy and transformative decade and a half in the territory, a...
About a Boy
She was "Little Papaya" in the musical movie 881 who made aunties (and uncles) cried in her death scene and traumatised...