Global streaming giant Netflix has made a significant ongoing commitment to production of original content from Southeast Asia and in the Chinese language.
For 2024, Netflix has unveiled a slate of four Chinese-language series, all hailing from Taiwan. From Thailand, it detailed seven series and one film. From Indonesia, it has committed to five films and a series co-written and directed by the consistently successful Joko Anwar, marking his first partnership with the streamer.
Additionally, Netflix has confirmed the appointment of Maya Huang as its head of Chinese-language content.
The moves stand in sharp contrast to the mid-January happenings at rival global streamer Prime Video, which is cutting staff in the region and ending its brief experiment with Southeast Asian originals.
In Indonesia, Netflix says it is broadening its storytelling with a range of genres including comedy, action, fantasy, and sci-fi thrillers.
“Nightmares and Daydreams,” Anwar’s debut project for the company,...
For 2024, Netflix has unveiled a slate of four Chinese-language series, all hailing from Taiwan. From Thailand, it detailed seven series and one film. From Indonesia, it has committed to five films and a series co-written and directed by the consistently successful Joko Anwar, marking his first partnership with the streamer.
Additionally, Netflix has confirmed the appointment of Maya Huang as its head of Chinese-language content.
The moves stand in sharp contrast to the mid-January happenings at rival global streamer Prime Video, which is cutting staff in the region and ending its brief experiment with Southeast Asian originals.
In Indonesia, Netflix says it is broadening its storytelling with a range of genres including comedy, action, fantasy, and sci-fi thrillers.
“Nightmares and Daydreams,” Anwar’s debut project for the company,...
- 2/2/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Directors include Huang Hsin-yao, Tom Lin Shu-yu, Lam Sum, Ng Ka-leung and Daishi Matsunaga.
Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) has revealed a diverse selection of 46 films for its 2023 project market, including directors Huang Hsin-yao, Tom Lin Shu-yu and Hsu Chih-yen from Taiwan, Lam Sum and Ng Ka-leung from Hong Kong and Daishi Matsunaga from Japan
The market is scheduled to take place from November 20-22 during the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival with a the total prize pool of nearly $250,000 (Nt$8m), including a grand prize worth $32,000 (Nt$1m). All projects in the selection are eligible to...
Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) has revealed a diverse selection of 46 films for its 2023 project market, including directors Huang Hsin-yao, Tom Lin Shu-yu and Hsu Chih-yen from Taiwan, Lam Sum and Ng Ka-leung from Hong Kong and Daishi Matsunaga from Japan
The market is scheduled to take place from November 20-22 during the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival with a the total prize pool of nearly $250,000 (Nt$8m), including a grand prize worth $32,000 (Nt$1m). All projects in the selection are eligible to...
- 9/25/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
The 2023 Golden Horse Film Project Promotion, the project market that accompanies the Golden Horse film festival and awards in Taiwan in November, has laid out a huge 64-title selection for its 2023 edition.
These include 39 film projects at various stages of development and financing; a further seven works in progress; and the 18-previously announced series at project stage.
The event, which runs Nov. 20-22, offers a $31,000 (Nt$1 million) first prize and a total prize pool of $250,000 (Nt$8 million) from sponsors and industry sources. All selected projects are also eligible to apply to two Taicca funding initiatives: the Creative Content Development Program and the International Co-funding Program.
Among the Taiwanese filmmakers: Huang Hsin-yao, the director of “The Great Buddha+” and “Classmates Minus,” takes on the legend of Taiwanese treasure hunters in “Super-Reasoning Treasure Hunt”; Tom Lin Shu-yu, director of “Winds of September” and “The Garden of Evening Mists,” teams up with Kimi Hsia...
These include 39 film projects at various stages of development and financing; a further seven works in progress; and the 18-previously announced series at project stage.
The event, which runs Nov. 20-22, offers a $31,000 (Nt$1 million) first prize and a total prize pool of $250,000 (Nt$8 million) from sponsors and industry sources. All selected projects are also eligible to apply to two Taicca funding initiatives: the Creative Content Development Program and the International Co-funding Program.
Among the Taiwanese filmmakers: Huang Hsin-yao, the director of “The Great Buddha+” and “Classmates Minus,” takes on the legend of Taiwanese treasure hunters in “Super-Reasoning Treasure Hunt”; Tom Lin Shu-yu, director of “Winds of September” and “The Garden of Evening Mists,” teams up with Kimi Hsia...
- 9/25/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Midi Z was born in 1982 in Burma as a son of a cook and a doctor. At the age of 16, he moved to Taiwan and in 2011 he renounced his Burmese citizenship. In the same year he shot, directed and produced his first feature film “Return to Burma”, a story about the shift in his home country after the presidential elections of 2010. Over the course of his career, he has made five feature films and three documentaries, which have screened at international festivals. Among the awards Midi Z has received are a Taipei Film Award for Best Director and the Fedeora Award for Best Film at the Venice International Film Festival for his fourth feature “Road to Mandalay”. His most recent feature “Nina Wu” has received much critical acclaim and has been released in many countries.
On the occasion of the cinematic release of “Nina Wu” in Germany in September 2020 we...
On the occasion of the cinematic release of “Nina Wu” in Germany in September 2020 we...
- 8/1/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Psychological thriller “Nina Wu” by Taiwan-based Burmese writer and director Midi Z, was premiered in the “Un Certain Regard” section of Cannes Film Festival. Midi Z has proven before to be a fine and meticulous storyteller, enriching his narration with nuances, planting small significant details. This personal style well fits “Nina Wu” and its Hitchkockian development.
Nina Wu (Ke-Xi Wu) left Taichung 8 years ago following, like many girls, her dream of an acting career in the big city of Taipei. Despite her efforts, in all those years Nina has collected only a handful of minor roles as extra in indie movies or commercials and she’s resorted to moonlighting as a cam-girl. One day, the long-awaited audition arrives; it’s for a Cold War era spy-noir movie, “Romance of the Spies” and Nina’s agent warns her that she must be prepared to perform a full frontal nudity and explicit sex scenes.
Nina Wu (Ke-Xi Wu) left Taichung 8 years ago following, like many girls, her dream of an acting career in the big city of Taipei. Despite her efforts, in all those years Nina has collected only a handful of minor roles as extra in indie movies or commercials and she’s resorted to moonlighting as a cam-girl. One day, the long-awaited audition arrives; it’s for a Cold War era spy-noir movie, “Romance of the Spies” and Nina’s agent warns her that she must be prepared to perform a full frontal nudity and explicit sex scenes.
- 3/28/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The New York Asian Film Festival Winter Showcase 2020 is here and, among other pleasantries, it brings a fistful of films that will make you hungry. Very hungry. Under the title of “Love at First Bite”, the festival teases you with magnificent seven films. One of them, Taiwanese “Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast”.
“Zone Pro Site: The Movable Feast” is screening at New York Asian Film Festival Winter Showcase 2020
Wan (Kimi Hsia) wants to break through in the world of modeling. Despite the effort, her career is far from getting started. Moreover, on her birthday, a pair of crooks knocks on Wan’s door. They ask nothing less from her than to pay her boyfriend’s debt of one million Nts. Desperate, she packs her luggage and leaves for Taiwan, to join her mother Ai-fong (Lin Mei-hsiu).
What you need to know is, Wen happens to be the daughter of...
“Zone Pro Site: The Movable Feast” is screening at New York Asian Film Festival Winter Showcase 2020
Wan (Kimi Hsia) wants to break through in the world of modeling. Despite the effort, her career is far from getting started. Moreover, on her birthday, a pair of crooks knocks on Wan’s door. They ask nothing less from her than to pay her boyfriend’s debt of one million Nts. Desperate, she packs her luggage and leaves for Taiwan, to join her mother Ai-fong (Lin Mei-hsiu).
What you need to know is, Wen happens to be the daughter of...
- 2/23/2020
- by Anomalilly
- AsianMoviePulse
Eight years after her move to Taiwan, Nina Wu (Wu Ke-Xi) finally gets the audition she needs to jump-start her career: “Romance of the Spies,” a 1960s-era spy noir. To her discomfort, after exclusively working on short films and small projects, this glamorous new role calls for full frontal nudity and explicit sex scenes, including a threesome. As Nina acclimates to the bizarre world of the film set, in which comfort and safety are deprioritized in favor of art, she also grapples with family illness, the return of an old flame (Vivian Sung), and the mysterious recurrence of a menacing figure who haunts her dreams (Kimi Hsia).
Continue reading ‘Nina Wu’: Midi Z’s Lukewarm Take On The #MeToo Era Film Set [Cannes Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Nina Wu’: Midi Z’s Lukewarm Take On The #MeToo Era Film Set [Cannes Review] at The Playlist.
- 5/21/2019
- by Caroline Tsai
- The Playlist
The Mandarin-language film is written by and stars Wu Kexi.
The Road To Manderlay director Midi Z has wrapped the $2m psychological thriller Nina Wu which is inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the launch of the #metoo movement.
Based on a screenplay by his muse Wu Kexi, the star of Midi Z’s four previous features, Nina Wu is a Mandarin-language psychological thriller and the first film by the Myanmar-born, Tawian-based filmmaker to shoot in Taiwan.
Wu plays a young woman who moves to the city to realise her dreams in the entertainment industry but is struck by...
The Road To Manderlay director Midi Z has wrapped the $2m psychological thriller Nina Wu which is inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the launch of the #metoo movement.
Based on a screenplay by his muse Wu Kexi, the star of Midi Z’s four previous features, Nina Wu is a Mandarin-language psychological thriller and the first film by the Myanmar-born, Tawian-based filmmaker to shoot in Taiwan.
Wu plays a young woman who moves to the city to realise her dreams in the entertainment industry but is struck by...
- 11/29/2018
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Celebrated indie director Midi Z has begun post-production on “Nina Wu,” a fictional film inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement. Adopting the tone of a psychological thriller, the film examines the difficulties faced by women working in the film industry.
Z, whose real name is Chao Te-yin, was born in Myanmar of Chinese parents, but renounced his Burmese citizenship in 2011 and took Taiwanese nationality instead. After previous films that include “Return to Burma,” “Road to Mandalay,” and Myanmar-set documentary “14 Apples,” “Nina Wu” is Z’s first feature made in Taiwan.
The film was written by actress Wu Ke-Xi, and stars Wu, Vivian Sung and Kimi Hsia. The story involves an aspiring actress who is humiliated by a director, abandoned by her agent and hampered by an assistant. Having fled to the country, she is confronted with a series of mysterious incidents which seem to be connected...
Z, whose real name is Chao Te-yin, was born in Myanmar of Chinese parents, but renounced his Burmese citizenship in 2011 and took Taiwanese nationality instead. After previous films that include “Return to Burma,” “Road to Mandalay,” and Myanmar-set documentary “14 Apples,” “Nina Wu” is Z’s first feature made in Taiwan.
The film was written by actress Wu Ke-Xi, and stars Wu, Vivian Sung and Kimi Hsia. The story involves an aspiring actress who is humiliated by a director, abandoned by her agent and hampered by an assistant. Having fled to the country, she is confronted with a series of mysterious incidents which seem to be connected...
- 11/29/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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