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UK-France sales outfit Alief has acquired international sales rights to Jerome Yoo’s Korean immigration drama Mongrelsahead of the European Film Market.

The debut feature had its international premiere at Tallinn Black Nights where it picked up both the Fipresci prize and a special jury award for its cast in the first feature competition.

The film is about a widowed father who emigrates to Canada from Korea with his children but struggles to fit in with the community, instead finding solace with the local dogs. Yoo also wrote the screenplay which incorporates both Korean and English language.

Mongrels is produced...

Exclusive: Cameras have started rolling in Tokyo on Akashi, the debut feature from Japanese and Canadian writer-director Mayumi Yoshida.

Yoshida, best known as an actor for her role in The Man in The High Castle, will also star in the film alongside veteran performers Hana Kino, Chieko Matsubara, Kunio Murai, and rising performer Ryo Tajima.

Described as a “coming-of-age love story,” Akashi follows Kana (Yoshida), an artist who is at a crossroads in her career. After finding out her Grandmother (Kino) has passed, she returns home to Tokyo for the funeral, where she rekindles a romance with childhood love Hiro (Tajima) and uncovers a family secret about her Grandpa (Murai).

Akashi is written and directed by Yoshida, who developed the script through the TIFF Writer’s Studio. The pic produced by Nach Dudsdeemaytha,...

Fifty percent of selections directed by women.

Telefilm Canada announced on Tuesday (August 18) the 16 filmmaker teams and first feature and narrative web projects selected for 2020-21 Talent To Watch programme.

Telefilm and Talent Fund will invest more than Usd $1663,000 (C$2.2m) in the English- and French-language work. Thirteen of the 16 teams are culturally diverse, with one who self-identifies as gender diverse. Fifty percent of the stories are directed by women.

For the first time, feature film projects will receive Usd $113,389, up from Usd $94,490 in support. Talent Fund is backed by private donations and launched in 2012 and to date has raised...

“Tokyo Lovers” is co-written and co-directed by Mayumi Yoshida – who also stars in the movie – and Nach Dudsdeemaytha, two Vancouver-based producers, directors, editors.

The short film is at the moment touring the festival circuit and it has recently taken home 5 awards from Vancouver Short Film Festival.

“Tokyo Lovers” is screening at the

Winter Film Awards International Film Festival

Young Canadian Paul (Jerome Yoo) has the brilliant idea to travel to Tokyo for the Christmas and New Tear Vacations and join Sachiko, a girl he thinks of as his girlfriend. They had a fling back in Vancouver and promised love to each other as many lovely selfies on his phone can prove. This – of course – is the typical prologue of a disaster and not surprisingly, when Paul knocks at her door, Aki, a grumpy and disillusioned flat-mate is there to inform him that Sachiko has gone back to her hometown for Christmas.

The Festival runs February 14-23 in New York City with a jam-packed schedule of 89 fantastic films from 32 countries, seriously amazing discussion panels, cool networking events and super-fun parties

We’ve got something for everyone, with a diverse mixture of shorts and features, animations, documentaries, thrillers, comedies, romances, dramas, horror, sci-fi, music videos and web series!

Filmmakers come from 32 countries; 50% of the films were created by women, 53% were created by or about people of color. Hollywood continues to ignore women and people of color, but Winter Film Awards celebrates everyone!

“I think that when everybody’s story is told, then that makes for better art, that makes for better entertainment. It makes everybody feel part of one family.” — President Obama.

In The Land of Pomegranates

All The Asian Titles:

Dance Dance – Music Video by Andrew Hachem

Dhrma-Ciaxxo – Music Video by Kotaro Saito

Difference – Short Film by Ali Asadollahi

Fatimah – Documentary by...