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Iran: US guilds line up
American screen guilds and unions put together a concerted release to protest the treatment of Iranian creatives.
Iran: confirms Panahi sentence
A Tehran appeals court has upheld a six-year jail sentence and 20-year filmmaking and travel ban against international award-winning Iranian…
Busan: new and very shiny
The first edition of the renamed Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), accompanying Asian Film Market (AFM), conference (BIFFCOM) and raft…
APSA: announces 2011 jury
Veteran Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi will head this year's APSA jury, enjoying a trip to the Gold Coast come…
Singapore: takes an axe to funding schemes
Singapore's Media Development Authority has closed the doors on the complex web of 46 separate funding schemes and streamlined access…
South Pacific Pictures: away with the fairies
Sydney's SLR Productions, part owned by South pacific Pictures, is one of the companies behind a newly-greenlit and canny piece…
Mahalo: Hawaii selects six Kiwis
Three features and three shorts are selected to screen at Hawaii's International Film Festival. Thirty years old this time around,…
ABC2: the Controllers perspective
The latest lineup list for ABC2 contains a couple of interesting
Fantasia: loving Asia
Montreal's Fantasia presented Danish director Mikkel Nørgaard's Clown its top award, but also awarded several Asian films currently or recently…
India: takes francs, talks frank
NZ's newest co-pro treaty partner, India, is in the spotlight in Switzerland this week. The country is the focus of…