After four days of back-slapping, plaudits for the hosts and encouraging noises about the imminent recovery of the theatrical cinema business, the CineAsia convention’s final awards lunch was reduced to tears by the very segment of the industry that had been conspicuously absent all week – mainland Chinese exhibitors.
Despite the near-complete Chinese absence, Jane Shao and Jimmy Wu, co-founders of upmarket exhibition chain Lumiere Pavilions were due to be named as CineAsia exhibitors of the year at a Thursday awards lunch. Surprisingly, both made the trip.
Their acceptance speeches were deeply emotional moments that served as reality checks for studios, equipment suppliers and currently-estranged partners of the Chinese industry.
“I remember vividly Jan. 23, 2020, when I got a phone call from my Wuhan manager who had just been told by local authorities to close down,” said Shao. Nearly three years later, China is only this week announcing significant reductions to quarantines,...
Despite the near-complete Chinese absence, Jane Shao and Jimmy Wu, co-founders of upmarket exhibition chain Lumiere Pavilions were due to be named as CineAsia exhibitors of the year at a Thursday awards lunch. Surprisingly, both made the trip.
Their acceptance speeches were deeply emotional moments that served as reality checks for studios, equipment suppliers and currently-estranged partners of the Chinese industry.
“I remember vividly Jan. 23, 2020, when I got a phone call from my Wuhan manager who had just been told by local authorities to close down,” said Shao. Nearly three years later, China is only this week announcing significant reductions to quarantines,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Crackdowns in China seem to be in the news a lot lately, making Jason Loftus’s film Eternal Spring all the more timely. The protagonist of this hybrid documentary is a brilliant Chinese artist named Daxiong, who was forced into exile because of his affiliation with a movement known as Falun Gong, a controversial New Age self-help group that became increasingly threatening to the authorities as it grew in size. In 1999, president Jiang Zemin finally outlawed the organization, leading to imprisonments and death.
Speaking at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event, Loftus described the premise of the film. “It’s a mostly animated documentary,” he said, “that focuses on the dramatic hijacking of the state TV airwaves [in 2002] by a group of Falun Gong adherents. It was an effort to counter the government narrative and the misinformation that had been underpinning the persecution they were facing, and so they felt...
Speaking at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event, Loftus described the premise of the film. “It’s a mostly animated documentary,” he said, “that focuses on the dramatic hijacking of the state TV airwaves [in 2002] by a group of Falun Gong adherents. It was an effort to counter the government narrative and the misinformation that had been underpinning the persecution they were facing, and so they felt...
- 12/3/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
San Francisco, Dec 3 (Ians) Chinese tech giant Huawei has confirmed the existence of the device “Huawei Watch Buds” on the Chinese Twitter-like site Weibo that includes earbuds beneath the dial, the media reported.
The Huawei Watch Buds, as the name implies, are a pair of earbuds hidden within a smartwatch, reports The Verge.
It is unclear what kind of performance or battery life users can expect from this product, but the watch itself appears to run HarmonyOS (Huawei’s own operating system).
Moreover, the tech giant had promised to reveal the device on December 2 but postponed the launch due to some unexplained reasons, according to the report.
Several outlets speculated that it was to honour the passing of former Ccp General Secretary Jiang Zemin on November 30, which also affected other Chinese product announcements over the last week, the report added.
Despite their bare-bones appearance, Huawei’s earbuds are unlike any...
The Huawei Watch Buds, as the name implies, are a pair of earbuds hidden within a smartwatch, reports The Verge.
It is unclear what kind of performance or battery life users can expect from this product, but the watch itself appears to run HarmonyOS (Huawei’s own operating system).
Moreover, the tech giant had promised to reveal the device on December 2 but postponed the launch due to some unexplained reasons, according to the report.
Several outlets speculated that it was to honour the passing of former Ccp General Secretary Jiang Zemin on November 30, which also affected other Chinese product announcements over the last week, the report added.
Despite their bare-bones appearance, Huawei’s earbuds are unlike any...
- 12/3/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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