Call for Entry: Asian Film Academy 2013
Asian Film Academy (AFA), a program that mentors emerging filmmakers and helps establish Asian filmmaker’s network, is open for application till April 30, 2013.
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Call for Entry: Ties That Bind — Asia Europe Producers Workshop 2013
Ties That Bind – Asia Europe Producers Workshop is calling for entries for its fifth edition.
Dekh Indian Circus wins Audience award at Busan
Dekh Indian Circus, directed by Mangesh Hadawale picked up the Audience Choice award at the 16th Busan International Film Festival which concluded recently. The film had its World Premiere at the New Currents section in the festival. It is a story of maternal devotion despite harsh reality of poverty. The Sonje Award for Short Films went [...]
Asian Film Market running at Busan with registrations up by 39%
The Asian Film Market 2011 is currently running at the 16th Busan International Film Festival with 39% increase in participants compared with the previous year. There has been an increase of 67% in Sales Booth at the market. Market Screening at the market increased in works from 39 to 60 and in screening from 47 [...]
Korean director Kim Ki-duk Retrospective at Busan
The 16th Busan International Film Festival, which will be held from October 6-14, 2011 will present a Retrospective of Korean director Kim Ki-duk. Eight of his works will be screened at the festival. Ki-duk made his debut with Five Marines in 1961 and went on to make 66 films in his career. His last film [...]
Busan’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year to Tsui Hark
The 16th Busan International Film Festival selected Tsui Hark as the ‘Asian Filmmaker of the Year.’ Hark is known to have pioneered the Hong Kong New Wave in the 80s. He came into the spotlight with Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1982/ producer), which opened new SFX era in Hong Kong cinema. Hark produced A [...]
Sholay at 16th Busan International Film Festival
Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay will be screened for the Asian Special Program at the 16th Busan International Film Festival. The festival will present Sholay, a film from his golden era as a tribute to Amitabh Bachchan. “Influenced by the Spaghetti Western, Sholay is an Indian western that illustrates the love and adventure of two young men [...]
Thai director Apichatpong to present keynote at 1st Busan Cinema Forum
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who won the Palme d’Or at 63rd Cannes for his film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Dudley Andrew, a film scholar and Film Studies professor at Yale University will present keynotes at the first Busan Cinema Forum. The 16th Busan International Film Festival (October 6-14) will host [...]
Indian director Murali Nair to mentor at Asian Film Academy Busan
Indian director Murali Nair has been appointed as the Directing Mentor for the Asian Film Academy 2011. Asian Film Academy is an educational program for new Asian talent in cinema. It will take place from September 29-October 15, 2011 alongside Busan International Film Festival. His film Throne of Death (Simhasanam) was awarded the Camera d’Or [...]
Busan’s Asian Cinema Fund to Indian documentary
Indian documentary In God’s Land by Pankaj Rishi Kumar will receive the Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund instituted by Busan International Film Festival. The 16th Busan International Film Festival that will be held from October 6-14 announced the 31 finalists eligible for the Asian Cinema Fund (ACF); a funding program designed to provide Asian [...]
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