Companies including Xyz, Wild Bunch and Media Asia are set to attend.Scroll down for list of projects
Projects from 13 countries will be presented at this year’s edition of Focus Asia, the co-production market held at Udine Far East Film Festival April 26-28.
More than 100 sales agents and financiers will gather for the event, including representatives of Xyz, Media Asia, M-Line, Showbox, Wild Bunch, Reel Suspects, and M-Appeal.
While last year’s inaugural edition of Focus Asia featured screenings and events built around finished projects, this year’s crop are all in the early stages of development.
The selection was curated from 72 submissions by a committee featuring representatives of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival and the Nordisk Film & Fond’s Nordic Genre Boost.
The project teams are from countries including Japan, Indonesia, France, Sweden, Italy, Singapore and Laos.
The Udine Far...
Projects from 13 countries will be presented at this year’s edition of Focus Asia, the co-production market held at Udine Far East Film Festival April 26-28.
More than 100 sales agents and financiers will gather for the event, including representatives of Xyz, Media Asia, M-Line, Showbox, Wild Bunch, Reel Suspects, and M-Appeal.
While last year’s inaugural edition of Focus Asia featured screenings and events built around finished projects, this year’s crop are all in the early stages of development.
The selection was curated from 72 submissions by a committee featuring representatives of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival and the Nordisk Film & Fond’s Nordic Genre Boost.
The project teams are from countries including Japan, Indonesia, France, Sweden, Italy, Singapore and Laos.
The Udine Far...
- 3/30/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
[The fledgling Shinsedai Cinema Festival, programmed by Midnight Eye’s Jasper Sharp and Toronto J-Film PowWow’s Chris MaGee, hits a bulls-eye in showcasing unique and provoking independent Japanese Cinema. The New God, was certainly a highlight]
After watching the alleged hypocrisy of a few Us senators in Kirby Dick’s gay outing documentary Outrage and the oily charisma of Ted Haggard, as featured in Jesus Camp (before he was thrown out of his own mega-church for drugs and homosexual prostitutes) it does lend you to wonder how certain extreme personalities in positions of power crave the spotlight for their own twisted public therapy sessions. Right-wing political activist and ex-wrist-cutter Karin Amamiya may not have the reach of those influential white men, albiet she is somewhat of a youth icon currently in Japan, but she certainly comes across as loud and confusing and yes, quite interesting in Yutaka Tsuchiya’s The New God. His film is the only philosophically political romantic comedy rockumentary that I am aware of. And I want more films in this zany new sub-genre!
After watching the alleged hypocrisy of a few Us senators in Kirby Dick’s gay outing documentary Outrage and the oily charisma of Ted Haggard, as featured in Jesus Camp (before he was thrown out of his own mega-church for drugs and homosexual prostitutes) it does lend you to wonder how certain extreme personalities in positions of power crave the spotlight for their own twisted public therapy sessions. Right-wing political activist and ex-wrist-cutter Karin Amamiya may not have the reach of those influential white men, albiet she is somewhat of a youth icon currently in Japan, but she certainly comes across as loud and confusing and yes, quite interesting in Yutaka Tsuchiya’s The New God. His film is the only philosophically political romantic comedy rockumentary that I am aware of. And I want more films in this zany new sub-genre!
- 8/27/2009
- by Kurt Halfyard
- Screen Anarchy
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