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India’s Film Bazaar, the Singapore-based Asia TV Forum & Market’s (Atf) IP Accelerator Project Market (Aipa) and the Southeast Asian Audio-Visual Association (Saava) have formed a project market partnership.

Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest film market is operated by India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) and runs concurrently with the International Film Festival of India (Iffi). The project market partnership signed with Saava and Nfdc arranges for an exchange of projects in development and/or work-in-progress between them.

The exchanges start this year, with “Becoming”, a feature-length India-South Korea production from the documentary section of Film Bazaar’s co-production market going to Aipa 2023. Next year, one or more of Aipa’s projects in the current edition will be given an automatic entry into 2024’s edition of the Film Bazaar’s co-production market.

In addition, on the back of the increased Indian film incentive schemes, the partnership between...

In 2012, Khavn wrote an editorial for a retrospective of Filipino films titled “Philippine New Wave” that took place at the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival. In this text, he mentions, “Now we come to this third peaking, the third coming of age of a cinema that defies easy categorization. After more than a decade of near silence, Philippine cinema is once again vibrant, plucky and so wildly diverse, that each filmmaker could be his or her own “new wave.”

On the one hand, there are the lengthy, minimalist, poetic films of Lav Diaz, and on the other, the ostensibly avant-garde and distinctly regional storytelling of young turks like Christopher Gozum. (…)

The icing on the cake is, of course, Brillante Mendoza’s best director win at Cannes for “Kinatay.”

This period is unprecedented. There has never before been recognition of this magnitude and relentless consistency for Filipino filmmakers, and there has...

An entirely black-and-white affair which runs well over two hours, The Ashes and Ghosts of Tayug 1931 is the biopic of a revolutionary who led a small, short-lived peasant uprising against U.S. colonial rule in a provincial town in the Philippines. As the title suggests, however, the film goes well beyond this one-day insurrection on January 11, 1931, as director Christopher Gozum uses this little-known historical episode to reflect on the social turmoil that has gripped his home country ever since then.

Continuing where Raya Martin (Independencia) and Lav Diaz (From What Is Before) have left off in...