Gu Xiaogang knows firsthand the impact that international film festivals can have.
Gu turned to the Beijing International Film Festival back in 2018 in an effort to get his breakthrough feature, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, made. He took his film to Bjiff’s project market and he walked away with the funds he needed after impressing investors with his story — an intimate look at a family’s life as it evolves across one year — along with his languid style.
The international film world has since felt much the same. Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains went on to become the first Chinese-language film to close Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2019, was selected among the top 10 films of the year by the leading French film magazine Cahier du Cinema in 2020 and led directly to Gu being named a co-winner of the Akira Kurosawa Award at last year’s 36th Tokyo International Film Festival,...
Gu turned to the Beijing International Film Festival back in 2018 in an effort to get his breakthrough feature, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, made. He took his film to Bjiff’s project market and he walked away with the funds he needed after impressing investors with his story — an intimate look at a family’s life as it evolves across one year — along with his languid style.
The international film world has since felt much the same. Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains went on to become the first Chinese-language film to close Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2019, was selected among the top 10 films of the year by the leading French film magazine Cahier du Cinema in 2020 and led directly to Gu being named a co-winner of the Akira Kurosawa Award at last year’s 36th Tokyo International Film Festival,...
- 4/18/2024
- by Mathew Scott
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chinese director Gu Xiaogang on Monday announced the follow-up to his well-received first feature “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” — the closing night selection for Cannes Critics’ Week in 2019 — entitled “Dwelling by the West Lake.”
The film will be produced by Chuxiao Pictures and executive produced by Chen Caiyun, off a script from novelist Guo Shuang. Mao Dun Literature Prize-winning writer and tea expert Wang Xufeng will serve as “literary consultant.”
“Those who have seen ‘Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains’ know that the film ends with the words ‘End of Volume One,’ and so I often get asked if Volume Two will be its sequel. But in fact the second volume is an entirely new story taking place in an entirely new environment,” Gu said in a statement published by the Qianjiang Evening News.
The new story is set in Gu’s hometown of Hangzhou, capital of coastal Zhejiang province, amid...
The film will be produced by Chuxiao Pictures and executive produced by Chen Caiyun, off a script from novelist Guo Shuang. Mao Dun Literature Prize-winning writer and tea expert Wang Xufeng will serve as “literary consultant.”
“Those who have seen ‘Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains’ know that the film ends with the words ‘End of Volume One,’ and so I often get asked if Volume Two will be its sequel. But in fact the second volume is an entirely new story taking place in an entirely new environment,” Gu said in a statement published by the Qianjiang Evening News.
The new story is set in Gu’s hometown of Hangzhou, capital of coastal Zhejiang province, amid...
- 1/10/2022
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Mike Goodridge, who was appointed artistic director of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) in 2017, is stepping down after four editions. The festival will not take place in 2021, as Covid-19 restrictions remain tight in Macau.
In 2020, like many festivals, IFFAM went online. Last year, it featured a film screening section and masterclasses with Hirokazu Koreeda, Hur Jin-ho, Nina Hoss and Viggo Mortensen.
Goodridge is busy in production and management through his Good Chaos label and will continue to work in festival programming and curation. He was a consultant with the Chicago International Film Festival this year.
“I have had an incredible experience working with my friends and colleagues in Macau,” said Goodridge. “We built the audience for different kinds of cinema in the city and created an event that resonated across the region and the world. The team we assembled was second to none, and we were all dedicated...
In 2020, like many festivals, IFFAM went online. Last year, it featured a film screening section and masterclasses with Hirokazu Koreeda, Hur Jin-ho, Nina Hoss and Viggo Mortensen.
Goodridge is busy in production and management through his Good Chaos label and will continue to work in festival programming and curation. He was a consultant with the Chicago International Film Festival this year.
“I have had an incredible experience working with my friends and colleagues in Macau,” said Goodridge. “We built the audience for different kinds of cinema in the city and created an event that resonated across the region and the world. The team we assembled was second to none, and we were all dedicated...
- 9/28/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Mike Goodridge, the former CEO of Protagonist Pictures, is stepping down from his role as artistic director of International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) after four editions.
Post-iffam, Goodridge will continue his work in production and management through his Good Chaos label and will continue to work in festival programming and curation. He was a consultant with the Chicago International Film Festival this year. His recent credits include as an executive producer on the Oscar-nominated Quo Vadis, Aida? and Ruben Ostlund’s upcoming Triangle Of Sadness.
IFFAM will not take place in 2021 as Covid restrictions remain tight in the autonomous region off the Chinese coast, which is known for its high-flying gambling industry.
The fest was established in 2016 and Goodridge joined after founding artistic director Marco Mueller exited. Goodridge created an international competition for first and second time directors and strengthened the Chinese-language programming with the creation of the New Chinese Cinema competition strand.
Post-iffam, Goodridge will continue his work in production and management through his Good Chaos label and will continue to work in festival programming and curation. He was a consultant with the Chicago International Film Festival this year. His recent credits include as an executive producer on the Oscar-nominated Quo Vadis, Aida? and Ruben Ostlund’s upcoming Triangle Of Sadness.
IFFAM will not take place in 2021 as Covid restrictions remain tight in the autonomous region off the Chinese coast, which is known for its high-flying gambling industry.
The fest was established in 2016 and Goodridge joined after founding artistic director Marco Mueller exited. Goodridge created an international competition for first and second time directors and strengthened the Chinese-language programming with the creation of the New Chinese Cinema competition strand.
- 9/28/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Goodridge has overseen four editions since joining the festival in 2017.
Mike Goodridge has stepped down as artistic director of International Film Festival and Awards Macao (IFFAM), and admitted that the future of the festival looks “uncertain”.
“I have had an incredible experience working with my friends and colleagues in Macao,” said Goodridge. “We built the audience for different kinds of cinema in the city and created an event that resonated across the region and the world. The team we assembled was second to none, and we were all dedicated to stimulating the growth of filmmaking and film-going in Macao.
“IFFAM...
Mike Goodridge has stepped down as artistic director of International Film Festival and Awards Macao (IFFAM), and admitted that the future of the festival looks “uncertain”.
“I have had an incredible experience working with my friends and colleagues in Macao,” said Goodridge. “We built the audience for different kinds of cinema in the city and created an event that resonated across the region and the world. The team we assembled was second to none, and we were all dedicated to stimulating the growth of filmmaking and film-going in Macao.
“IFFAM...
- 9/28/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Director Gu Xiaogang undertakes a rather ambitious project for his feature debut, which takes its title from a 14th century Chinese scroll painting by Huang Gongwang, and focuses on presenting his constantly changing home town of Fuyang. Apart from the 150 minutes of its duration, the movie was shot over two years, in order for him to show the town throughout the four seasons, with Gu using personal loans to shoot until Factory Gate joined in the production. Furthermore, he decided to include solely non-professionals for the cast, while the most astonishing element, considering the style and the result of his efforts, is that he has never attended a film school.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is screening at Electric Shadows Letters from Panduranga © Nguyen Trin Thi
The story depicts a year in the life of the Yu family, beginning with the celebration of the birthday of the aging matriarch, attended...
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is screening at Electric Shadows Letters from Panduranga © Nguyen Trin Thi
The story depicts a year in the life of the Yu family, beginning with the celebration of the birthday of the aging matriarch, attended...
- 9/2/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
From September 2 to 5, Electric Shadows organizes its first festival at De Cinema in Antwerp, Belgium. After a successful online event about Taiwanese film in April, this time it’s the cinema screen that forms the playground for singular Asian films.
Sensual and smart. The Electric Shadows festival welcomes Asian cinema that makes you reflect and roam. The festival opens on Thursday September 2nd with “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” and closes on Sunday September 5th with Tsai Ming-liang’s “Days”. Between the first fiction film by the young maker Xiaogang Gu and the most recent film by a modern master, Electric Shadows offers a trajectory of discovery and rediscovery.
Following up on April’s online event ‘Voices of Youth. Unseen Taiwanese films of the 1960s’ there is a tribute to the unjustly forgotten Richard Chen, a contemporary of Mou Tun-fei. This follow-up program now revolves around his restored short films...
Sensual and smart. The Electric Shadows festival welcomes Asian cinema that makes you reflect and roam. The festival opens on Thursday September 2nd with “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” and closes on Sunday September 5th with Tsai Ming-liang’s “Days”. Between the first fiction film by the young maker Xiaogang Gu and the most recent film by a modern master, Electric Shadows offers a trajectory of discovery and rediscovery.
Following up on April’s online event ‘Voices of Youth. Unseen Taiwanese films of the 1960s’ there is a tribute to the unjustly forgotten Richard Chen, a contemporary of Mou Tun-fei. This follow-up program now revolves around his restored short films...
- 9/1/2021
- by Nancy Fornoville
- AsianMoviePulse
The organization Chinese in Entertainment, the non-profit behind the Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival (Lacff), is changing its name to remove the word “Chinese” after internal discussions about the political implications of the term.
After some soul-searching, the team decided that the new name Sino Entertainment Association (Sea) would be better aligned with its goal of championing inclusivity and diversity. The Lacff, its flagship event, will keep its current name for now.
“The term ‘Chinese’ no longer represents who we are as an organization, since our members and volunteers come from diverse backgrounds, including people from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the U.S., Canada and many other countries and regions,” explained Lewis Liu, the organization’s founder and sitting board member.
“Many of them are Taiwanese or Asian American, and do not identify as ‘Chinese’ [from mainland China], so we have changed the name to ‘Sino’ to include people with origins in Greater China,...
After some soul-searching, the team decided that the new name Sino Entertainment Association (Sea) would be better aligned with its goal of championing inclusivity and diversity. The Lacff, its flagship event, will keep its current name for now.
“The term ‘Chinese’ no longer represents who we are as an organization, since our members and volunteers come from diverse backgrounds, including people from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the U.S., Canada and many other countries and regions,” explained Lewis Liu, the organization’s founder and sitting board member.
“Many of them are Taiwanese or Asian American, and do not identify as ‘Chinese’ [from mainland China], so we have changed the name to ‘Sino’ to include people with origins in Greater China,...
- 4/28/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art Thursday announced a virtual return of the 49th annual New Directors/New Films festival rescheduled from last March to December 9-20.
The 50-year old fest’s 2020 lineup of 24 features and 10 shorts will be available to audiences nationwide for the first time, screening exclusively in the Flc Virtual Cinema.
The lineup, drawing heavily from the international film festival circuit with award-winners from Sundance, Venice, Rotterdam and Locarno, was initially announced in February before Covid-19 hit. Amanda McBain and Jesse Moss’ Boys State (Sundance U.S. Grand Jury Prize for documentary), Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent, and Collective by Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau will have opened before the festival’s new dates and be presented as special screenings with details to be announced. Babyteeth, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, and Surge were part of the original Nd/Nf lineup but are...
The 50-year old fest’s 2020 lineup of 24 features and 10 shorts will be available to audiences nationwide for the first time, screening exclusively in the Flc Virtual Cinema.
The lineup, drawing heavily from the international film festival circuit with award-winners from Sundance, Venice, Rotterdam and Locarno, was initially announced in February before Covid-19 hit. Amanda McBain and Jesse Moss’ Boys State (Sundance U.S. Grand Jury Prize for documentary), Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent, and Collective by Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau will have opened before the festival’s new dates and be presented as special screenings with details to be announced. Babyteeth, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, and Surge were part of the original Nd/Nf lineup but are...
- 11/12/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The eighth Helsinki Cine Aasia ended on Sunday March 15th. Eighteen films from East and Southeast Asia were screened during the four-day festival.
The most popular films at this year’s festival were the warm Tibetan family drama Balloon, which opened the festival, and the ambitious Chinese arthouse drama Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.
Japanese films have always been audience favourites at Helsinki Cine Aasia. This year’s most popular Japanese films were the comedy-drama Only the Cat Knows, the serene and elegant Only the Cat Knows and the picturesque They Say Nothing Stays the Same.
Helsinki Cine Aasia’s guests were also Japanese. Director Amano Chihiro and actor Nagao Takuma participated in all screenings of their film Mrs. Noisy during the festival.
“Mrs. Noisy”
In addition to films, the festival weekend included discussions with experts that deepened and opened new perspectives into the themes of some of the films.
The most popular films at this year’s festival were the warm Tibetan family drama Balloon, which opened the festival, and the ambitious Chinese arthouse drama Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.
Japanese films have always been audience favourites at Helsinki Cine Aasia. This year’s most popular Japanese films were the comedy-drama Only the Cat Knows, the serene and elegant Only the Cat Knows and the picturesque They Say Nothing Stays the Same.
Helsinki Cine Aasia’s guests were also Japanese. Director Amano Chihiro and actor Nagao Takuma participated in all screenings of their film Mrs. Noisy during the festival.
“Mrs. Noisy”
In addition to films, the festival weekend included discussions with experts that deepened and opened new perspectives into the themes of some of the films.
- 3/18/2020
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Director Gu Xiaogang undertakes a rather ambitious project for his feature debut, which takes its title from a 14th century Chinese scroll painting by Huang Gongwang, and focuses on presenting his constantly changing home town of Fuyang. Apart from the 150 minutes of its duration, the movie was shot over two years, in order for him to show the town throughout the four seasons, with Gu using personal loans to shoot until Factory Gate joined in the production. Furthermore, he decided to include solely non-professionals for the cast, while the most astonishing element, considering the style and the result of his efforts, is that he has never attended a film school.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia
The story depicts a year in the life of the Yu family, beginning with the celebration of the birthday of the aging matriarch, attended by her four sons and their families.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia
The story depicts a year in the life of the Yu family, beginning with the celebration of the birthday of the aging matriarch, attended by her four sons and their families.
- 3/14/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Helsinki Cine Aasia 2020 celebrates versatile Asian cinema
Celebrating its eighth edition, Helsinki Cine Aasia is the only festival of contemporary Asian cinema in Finland. This year the festival hosts the Finnish premieres of 18 films from eight East and Southeast Asian countries. In addition, a series of classic films based on traditional East Asian theater is screened at Kino Regina. Helsinki Cine Aasia takes place at Korjaamo, Kino Regina and Cinema Orion from Thursday March 12 to Sunday March 15, 2020.
Helsinki Cine Aasia 2020 opens with the Tibetan film “Balloon”. The latest film from Tibet’s best-known filmmaker Pema Tseden has already won accolades at several film festivals, including Venice and Chicago, as well as the main prize at Tokyo FILMeX. Set in Tibet in the 1980’s during the one-child policy, the warm-hearted and slightly humorous film illustrates the difficulties of combining the traditional with the modern. A Buddhist couple raising a herd of...
Celebrating its eighth edition, Helsinki Cine Aasia is the only festival of contemporary Asian cinema in Finland. This year the festival hosts the Finnish premieres of 18 films from eight East and Southeast Asian countries. In addition, a series of classic films based on traditional East Asian theater is screened at Kino Regina. Helsinki Cine Aasia takes place at Korjaamo, Kino Regina and Cinema Orion from Thursday March 12 to Sunday March 15, 2020.
Helsinki Cine Aasia 2020 opens with the Tibetan film “Balloon”. The latest film from Tibet’s best-known filmmaker Pema Tseden has already won accolades at several film festivals, including Venice and Chicago, as well as the main prize at Tokyo FILMeX. Set in Tibet in the 1980’s during the one-child policy, the warm-hearted and slightly humorous film illustrates the difficulties of combining the traditional with the modern. A Buddhist couple raising a herd of...
- 2/26/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Helsinki Cine Aasia will once again bring the best of contemporary Asian cinema to Helsinki in March. The festival opens with the award-winning Tibetan film Balloon.
The only festival of contemporary Asian cinema in Finland, Helsinki Cine Aasia, is celebrating its eighth edition between Thursday March 12th and Sunday March 15th, 2020. Through the festival selection, Helsinki Cine Aasia’s audience is provided with a view to current Asian cinema as well as the Asian cultures in a broader sense. The program consists of a selection of the most interesting, acclaimed and popular films from East and Southeast Asia over the past year.
Opening film: Traditional and modern collide in Tibet
Helsinki Cine Aasia’s opening film is Balloon (Qi qiu, 2019), the latest work from one of Tibet’s best-known filmmakers, Pema Tseden. “We are excited to bring rarely seen Tibetan cinema to Helsinki,” says festival director Eija Niskanen. “Films set...
The only festival of contemporary Asian cinema in Finland, Helsinki Cine Aasia, is celebrating its eighth edition between Thursday March 12th and Sunday March 15th, 2020. Through the festival selection, Helsinki Cine Aasia’s audience is provided with a view to current Asian cinema as well as the Asian cultures in a broader sense. The program consists of a selection of the most interesting, acclaimed and popular films from East and Southeast Asia over the past year.
Opening film: Traditional and modern collide in Tibet
Helsinki Cine Aasia’s opening film is Balloon (Qi qiu, 2019), the latest work from one of Tibet’s best-known filmmakers, Pema Tseden. “We are excited to bring rarely seen Tibetan cinema to Helsinki,” says festival director Eija Niskanen. “Films set...
- 2/14/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Company heads to debut Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris and Sundance after fruitful first year.
Paris-based sales company Totem Films is moving into co-production and has expanded its team with the hire of emerging producer Elsa Payen as part of the strategy.
Payen, who recently completed the pan-European, post-graduate Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris course, has worked on a number of high-profile international productions over the last five years, including Ford v Ferrari, The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Sense8 and Dunkirk.
Totem’s move into production comes just over a year after sales agents Agathe Valentin, Bérénice Vincent and...
Paris-based sales company Totem Films is moving into co-production and has expanded its team with the hire of emerging producer Elsa Payen as part of the strategy.
Payen, who recently completed the pan-European, post-graduate Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris course, has worked on a number of high-profile international productions over the last five years, including Ford v Ferrari, The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Sense8 and Dunkirk.
Totem’s move into production comes just over a year after sales agents Agathe Valentin, Bérénice Vincent and...
- 1/16/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The 2019 International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) closed yesterday (December 4) with an awards ceremony that saw Kirill Mikhanovsky’s English/Russian-language comedy Give Me Liberty named best film in the international competition. A jury presided over by Chinese filmmaker Peter Chan Ho-sun awarded its best director prize to Fyzal Boulifa for his debut feature Lynn + Lucy, and the best screenplay prize to Hamish Bennett for Bellbird. The acting awards went to Sarm Heng for Bouyancy and Roxanne Scrimshaw for Lynn + Lucy. Finally, the Macao Audience Choice Award also went to Rodd Rathjen’s Buoyancy. In the New Chinese Cinema competition, which was presided over by Cristian Mungiu, Xiaogang Gu’s Dwelling In The Fuchun Mountains was named best new Chinese-language film of the year. Best director went to Anthony Chen for Wet Season, best screenplay went to Johnny Ma for To Live To Sing, and the acting awards went to...
- 12/11/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Fyzal Boulifa won best director for UK title ‘Lynn + Lucy’.
The 4th International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) closed on Tuesday night (10) with the top award going to Us film Give Me Liberty directed by Kirill Mikhanovsky.
Stars such as Carina Lau and Juliette Binoche were on the red carpet for the festival, which showed 43 films including 10 in International Competition and six in the New Chinese Cinema Competition. It ran from December 5-10 in and around the Macau Cultural Centre.
Chinese filmmaker Peter Chan Ho-sun headed the jury for first and second-time directors in the international competition. He was joined...
The 4th International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) closed on Tuesday night (10) with the top award going to Us film Give Me Liberty directed by Kirill Mikhanovsky.
Stars such as Carina Lau and Juliette Binoche were on the red carpet for the festival, which showed 43 films including 10 in International Competition and six in the New Chinese Cinema Competition. It ran from December 5-10 in and around the Macau Cultural Centre.
Chinese filmmaker Peter Chan Ho-sun headed the jury for first and second-time directors in the international competition. He was joined...
- 12/10/2019
- by 134¦Jean Noh¦516¦
- ScreenDaily
The fourth edition of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam), which opened last night (December 5) at the Macao Cultural Center, is positioned as one of the key events celebrating the 20th anniversary of the handover of the former Portuguese colony to the People’s Republic of China.
Five Macanese features are among the highlights of this year’s selection of 50 films, said Mike Goodridge, Iffam artistic director. “It’s more than we ever played before,” he said earlier during the announcement of the programme.
The special presentations includes “Ina and the Blue Tiger Sauna,” a thriller set after the 2008 financial crisis, journeying through the mysterious underworld of Macao Antonio Caetano de Faria and Bernardo Rao; musical drama “Let’s Sing” by Keo Lou; Chen Shangshi’s “Patio of Illusion,” a drama that pays homage to the rich heritage of the city of Macau; “Strings of Sorrow,” a drama that...
Five Macanese features are among the highlights of this year’s selection of 50 films, said Mike Goodridge, Iffam artistic director. “It’s more than we ever played before,” he said earlier during the announcement of the programme.
The special presentations includes “Ina and the Blue Tiger Sauna,” a thriller set after the 2008 financial crisis, journeying through the mysterious underworld of Macao Antonio Caetano de Faria and Bernardo Rao; musical drama “Let’s Sing” by Keo Lou; Chen Shangshi’s “Patio of Illusion,” a drama that pays homage to the rich heritage of the city of Macau; “Strings of Sorrow,” a drama that...
- 12/5/2019
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
Attendees include Peter Chan Ho-sun, Tricia Tuttle and Noah Cowan.
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit opened the fourth International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) at the Macao Cultural Centre on Wednesday (December 4).
International guests in town for the festival include Peter Chan Ho-sun, head of the international competition jury, and fellow jury members Ellen Eliasoph, Tom Cullen, Dian Sastrowardoyo and Midi Z, as well as New Chinese Cinema competition jury head Cristian Mungiu and his fellow jury members Qiu Yang, Kirsten Tan, Tricia Tuttle and Noah Cowan.
Director Mattie Do and her The Long Walk team including actor Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy...
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit opened the fourth International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) at the Macao Cultural Centre on Wednesday (December 4).
International guests in town for the festival include Peter Chan Ho-sun, head of the international competition jury, and fellow jury members Ellen Eliasoph, Tom Cullen, Dian Sastrowardoyo and Midi Z, as well as New Chinese Cinema competition jury head Cristian Mungiu and his fellow jury members Qiu Yang, Kirsten Tan, Tricia Tuttle and Noah Cowan.
Director Mattie Do and her The Long Walk team including actor Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy...
- 12/5/2019
- by 134¦Jean Noh¦516¦
- ScreenDaily
Attendees include Peter Chan Ho-sun, Tricia Tuttle and Noah Cowan.
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit opened the fourth International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) at the Macao Cultural Centre on Wednesday (December 4).
International guests in town for the festival include Peter Chan Ho-sun, head of the international competition jury, and fellow jury members Ellen Eliasoph, Tom Cullen, Dian Sastrowardoyo and Midi Z, as well as New Chinese Cinema competition jury head Cristian Mungiu and his fellow jury members Qiu Yang, Kirsten Tan, Tricia Tuttle and Noah Cowan.
Director Mattie Do and her The Long Walk team including actor Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy...
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit opened the fourth International Film Festival & Awards Macao (Iffam) at the Macao Cultural Centre on Wednesday (December 4).
International guests in town for the festival include Peter Chan Ho-sun, head of the international competition jury, and fellow jury members Ellen Eliasoph, Tom Cullen, Dian Sastrowardoyo and Midi Z, as well as New Chinese Cinema competition jury head Cristian Mungiu and his fellow jury members Qiu Yang, Kirsten Tan, Tricia Tuttle and Noah Cowan.
Director Mattie Do and her The Long Walk team including actor Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy...
- 12/5/2019
- by 134¦Jean Noh¦516¦
- ScreenDaily
The festivals’s long-running Silver Screen Awards includes a nine-strong Asian feature film competition, featuring several titles by first-time directors.
The Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) has revealed the line-up for its 30th edition, which runs Nov 21-Dec 1.
The festivals’s long-running Silver Screen Awards includes a nine-strong Asian feature film competition, featuring several titles by first-time directors. Most of the contenders are already award winners, including Gu Xiaogang’s Dwelling In The Fuchun Mountains which earned best film and best director at First International Film Festival in Xining, Yosep Anggi Noen’s The Science Of Fictions, which received a special mention at Locarno,...
The Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) has revealed the line-up for its 30th edition, which runs Nov 21-Dec 1.
The festivals’s long-running Silver Screen Awards includes a nine-strong Asian feature film competition, featuring several titles by first-time directors. Most of the contenders are already award winners, including Gu Xiaogang’s Dwelling In The Fuchun Mountains which earned best film and best director at First International Film Festival in Xining, Yosep Anggi Noen’s The Science Of Fictions, which received a special mention at Locarno,...
- 10/22/2019
- by 1100978¦Silvia Wong¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
For its 30th edition the Singapore International Film Festival has avoided programming novelty and instead focused on assembling excellence – mostly indie titles — from Asia and further afield.
The festival, which previously announced local filmmaker Anthony Chen’s second feature “Wet Season” as its opening night gala presentation, announced the balance of its programming on Tuesday. Other galas are set to include “Downton Abbey,” and “Nina Wu.” Hirokazu Koreeda’s “The Truth” was named as the closing film. The festival runs Nov. 21 – Dec. 1.
The nine-film competition section includes: “Dwelling in The Fuchun Mountains”; Indian animation, “Bombay Rose”; Indonesia’s “The Science of Fictions,” and “Verdict,” all of which have received favorable reception elsewhere on the festival circuit.
Prizes for the competition will be decided by a jury that includes India’’s Anurag Kashyap, Indonesia’s Nia Dinata, Singapore’s Amir Muhammad, and Hong Kong’s Pang Ho-cheung.
One sidebar section includes Asia-Pacific festival favorites including “Balloon,...
The festival, which previously announced local filmmaker Anthony Chen’s second feature “Wet Season” as its opening night gala presentation, announced the balance of its programming on Tuesday. Other galas are set to include “Downton Abbey,” and “Nina Wu.” Hirokazu Koreeda’s “The Truth” was named as the closing film. The festival runs Nov. 21 – Dec. 1.
The nine-film competition section includes: “Dwelling in The Fuchun Mountains”; Indian animation, “Bombay Rose”; Indonesia’s “The Science of Fictions,” and “Verdict,” all of which have received favorable reception elsewhere on the festival circuit.
Prizes for the competition will be decided by a jury that includes India’’s Anurag Kashyap, Indonesia’s Nia Dinata, Singapore’s Amir Muhammad, and Hong Kong’s Pang Ho-cheung.
One sidebar section includes Asia-Pacific festival favorites including “Balloon,...
- 10/22/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Wang Xiaoshuai‘s ‘So Long, My Son‘ secures a record six nominations.
Chinese films dominate the nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) which will be held in Brisbane, Australia, on Novemer 21.
Scroll down for full list of nominations
Films from 22 countries will be represented at the awards but while the likes of India, Japan and Russia have picked up a handful of nods, Chinese films have more than double that of any other country with 13 nominations across seven features.
Wang Xiaoshuai‘s family drama So Long, My Son has secured a record six nominations, including best feature where...
Chinese films dominate the nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) which will be held in Brisbane, Australia, on Novemer 21.
Scroll down for full list of nominations
Films from 22 countries will be represented at the awards but while the likes of India, Japan and Russia have picked up a handful of nods, Chinese films have more than double that of any other country with 13 nominations across seven features.
Wang Xiaoshuai‘s family drama So Long, My Son has secured a record six nominations, including best feature where...
- 10/16/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
France’s Wild Bunch will be in charge of international sales and Arp will do French distribution for Chinese writer-director Gu Xiaogang’s debut feature, “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains,” the closing film at this year’s Critics’ Week at Cannes, the production team told Variety. The film does not yet have a distributor for China.
“Dwelling” is the first Chinese film in eight years to be selected to compete in the category. It is also only the 11th Chinese film to have made it into this part of the competition. It will be in the running for the Camera d’Or prize awarded to the best first feature film playing in one of the festival’s sections.
Gu, 30, studied costume design and marketing in university before he discovered filmmaking and began making documentaries. “Dwelling” is intended to be the first of what he calls his “scroll painting trilogy,” which...
“Dwelling” is the first Chinese film in eight years to be selected to compete in the category. It is also only the 11th Chinese film to have made it into this part of the competition. It will be in the running for the Camera d’Or prize awarded to the best first feature film playing in one of the festival’s sections.
Gu, 30, studied costume design and marketing in university before he discovered filmmaking and began making documentaries. “Dwelling” is intended to be the first of what he calls his “scroll painting trilogy,” which...
- 5/9/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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