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Sandra Oh has doubled her donation to the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival for prize-giving to $100,000.

During a reception at the Toronto Film Festival, the Killing Eve star added another $50,000 to make her overall contribution to the festival’s Reel Asian Fire Horse Award $100,000 over five years.

Oh, a longtime activist for Asian storytelling, told the reception: “Even though there is a place and a space for us now, it’s so important that we develop people, and this is the place where we can do it.” After wrapping her run playing Dr. Cristina Yang on the ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, Oh has championed stories that explore the Asian American identity.

The Korean Canadian actor was in Toronto this week as the honorary co-chair of the TIFF Tribute Awards held on Sunday evening. Oh also attended the 30th anniversary screening at TIFF of Mina Shum’s Double Happiness, in which she starred,...

After focusing on Taiwanese projects for its first three years, the pitching section of Taiwan Creative Content Fest (Tccf) opened its doors to international projects for the first time this year.

The move attracted 539 projects from 20 regions including Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Iran, France and the U.S. After a selection process overseen by four separate juries, the applications were whittled down to 43 across four sections: Project to Screen, divided further into Feature Films and Series; Animation Features & Series; and Documentary Features & Series.

The feature film section includes projects from leading filmmakers such as Japanese director Koji Fukada, Indonesia’s Edwin, the Philippines’ Sheron Deyoc (Women Of The Weeping River) and Japan-based, Indian-origin filmmaker Anshul Chauhan (December).

Tccf pitching also includes an additional ten Taiwanese IPs that have strong potential for adaptations. These include books, webtoons and...

A record 53 projects will be presented in November.

The Taiwan Creative Content Fest (Tccf) is set to take place on a larger and more international scale this year, presenting a record 53 projects with international productions included for the first time.

Project pitching is one of the main sections of Tccf, the content licensing and project investment market organised by Taiwan Creative Content Agency (Taicca), which will run from November 7-10 at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei. A record 539 submissions from 29 regions were received this year. The total cash prizes are worth more than $150,000.

The selected projects are divided...

Festival continues through Sunday.

Danish director Lea Glob’s Apolonia, Apolonia has won best film in the international competition at the 35th edition of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), running 9-20 November.

The award,which comes with a €15,000 euro cash prize, was confirmed on Thursday evening in a ceremony at Ita (International Theatre Amsterdam) that was streamed live.

Apolonia, Apolonia, backed by HBO Max and Arte and sold by Cat&Docs, follows brilliant young artist Apolonia Sokol over a period of 13 years. It was produced by Sidsel Siersted for Danish Documentary Production.

“This film has characters who breathe life and take us on a journey,...

Lea Glob’s documentary “Apolonia, Apolonia,” depicting French figurative painter Apolonia Sokol over the course of 13 years, has won the best film award in the International Competition section as well as €15,000 at documentary film festival IDFA in Amsterdam.

The coming-of-age story with Bohemian Paris as its backdrop was pitched at IDFA Forum back in 2015. In his Variety review for “Apolonia, Apolonia” Guy Lodge described the docu as “an impressively idiosyncratic, far-reaching work, assured of further festival play and specialist arthouse attention.” The film is a co-production between Denmark, Poland and France.

This marks the third time that Glob, a Danish director, has been at IDFA with a docu.

Glob’s “Olmo & the Seagull” which she co-directed with Petra Costa screened at IDFA 2015, while “Venus,” which was co-directed with Mette Carla Albrechtse, made its world premiere at IDFA in 2016.

“(‘Apolonia, Apolonia’) has characters who breathe life and take us on a journey,...

No big revelations this year at the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards. The Sunday night ceremony has unveiled all the winners for this years Awards and they are all quite an easy guess. Felix Chong’s thriller “Project Gutenberg” was the star of the evening as, predictably – considering its 17 nominations – won Best Film along with other 6 Awards.

But despite the histrionic performances of Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwock, the acting Awards are not in the “Project Gutenberg”‘s pile. Anthony Wong took home the Best Actor award for his role as a middle-aged paralysed man in “Still Human“, and newcomer Chloe Maayan won Best Actress for Fruit Chan’s “Three Husbands”, while Kara Hui and Ben Yuen Foo-Wa scored Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor both for “Tracey“.

Finally, “Dying To Survive” won the Best Film from Mainland and Taiwan Award.

Here is the full list of Winners and...

Iffk 2017Fourteen films including four from India, will compete for the prestigious Golden Crown Pheasant Award.Tnm Staff iffk two.jpgIt has been almost a week and Thiruvananthapuram has been witnessing a rush of film buffs. The 22nd edition of the prestigious International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) will come to a close on Friday. Known as people’s fest, delegate participation for Iffk has been increasing over the years, with serpentine queues visible outside several theatres. As many as 10,000 delegates and filmmakers from across the globe have been attending the fest. The week-long fest has screened 190 movies from 65 countries. While last year’s edition was embroiled in a controversy after 11 people were arrested for not standing up for the national anthem before the screening, the row this year was over not inviting National Award-winning actor Surabhi Lakshmi to the fest. She was, however, eventually given an official invite following the row. A poll to decide the audience prize for best film was opened on Thursday. The Golden Crow Pheasant Award with a cash prize of Rs 15 lakhs for the best film will also be presented at the Nishagandhi open-air auditorium on Friday. Fourteen films including four from India, will compete for the prestigious Golden Crown Pheasant Award. Among these, two are Malayalam films Randu Per (Two Persons) and Aden (Garden of Desire). The winner of the Golden Crown Pheasant Award will be screened at the closing ceremony. The fest had 465 screenings and most of them ran to packed audiences. Director and film critic Marco Muller is chairperson of the jury, while noted Malayalm director TV Chandran, Columbian actor Marlon Moreno, film editor Mary Stephen and Carelton University professor Aboubakcer Sanogo are jury members. The focus of the fest was Identity and Space while the country in focus was Brazil. This year’s edition will, however, not see cultural programmes as a mark of respect for the victims for Cyclone Ockhi. Enanble Notification: NoTNM Marquee: No...

Last year’s Venice Golden Lion winner will head Locarno’s main jury; Syrian director Ossama Mohammed will lead the Filmmakers of the Present competition jury.

Locarno has confirmed the juries for its 67th edition.

Italian director Gianfranco Rosi, who won the Golden Lion in Venice in 2013 for his documentary Sacro Gra – is to head up the festival’s International Competition jury.

He will be joined by German filmmaker Thomas Arslan, Brazilian actress Alice Braga, Danish actress Connie Nielsen and Chinese director Diao Yinan, winner of the Golden Bear at the last Berlin Festival for Black Coal, Thin Ice.

Meanwhile, Syrian director Ossama Mohammed has been named as president of the jury for the Filmmakers of the Present Competition for first and second films.

Mohammed, whose Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait was one of most widely acclaimed films at Cannes this year, will be joined by Thierry Jobin, the Swiss Artistic Director of the Fribourg Festival, Canadian writer...

Last year’s Venice Golden Lion winner will head up Locarno’s main jury; Syrian director Ossama Mohammed will lead the Filmmakers of the Present competition jury.

Locarno has confirmed the juries for its 67th edition.

Italian director Gianfranco Rosi, who won the Golden Lion in Venice in 2013 for his documentary Sacro Gra – is to head up the festival’s International Competition jury.

He will be joined by German filmmaker Thomas Arslan, Brazilian actress Alice Braga, Danish actress Connie Nielsen and Chinese director Diao Yinan, winner of the Golden Bear at the last Berlin Festival for Black Coal, Thin Ice.

Meanwhile, Syrian director Ossama Mohammed has been named as president of the jury for the Filmmakers of the Present Competition for first and second films.

Mohammed, whose Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait was one of most widely acclaimed films at Cannes this year, will be joined by Thierry Jobin, the Swiss Artistic Director of the Fribourg Festival, Canadian...