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Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired U.S. rights to Kyle Thomas’ drama Range Roads, along with North American rights to Dylan Reid’s semi-autobiographical film, By the Grace of…The digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios will release the former title written and directed by Thomas across internet, cable and satellite platforms on December 14, unveiling the latter written and directed by Reid across the same range of platforms on December 21.

Range Roads tells the story of Frankie King (Alana Hawley Purvis), a television actor who has been estranged from her family for 20 years, returning to her hometown in rural Canada after her parents are killed in a sudden car accident. As she struggles to reconnect with her truculent brother Grayson (Joe Perry), old wounds are reopened and family secrets uncovered. Thomas and Sara Corry produced the pic, which also stars Chad Brownlee and Nicole de Boer.

Instead of simply writing our wishes to all our readers, for 2021 we decided to ask our friends to do so.

Mattie Do, Joko Anwar, Taku Tsuboi, Indrasis Acharya, Leena Alam, Takeshi Kushida, Bront Palarae, Torico, Isabel Sandoval, Ryo Katayama, Anthony Chen, Roya Sadat, Kazutaka Watanabe, Akio Fujimoto, Min Siu Goh, Scott C. Hillyard, Gerald Chew, Amy Cheng, Ronny Sen, Kenichi Ugana, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Park Jung Bum, Kim Min-jae, Shogen, Atsushi Funahashi, Jero Yun, Shuna Iijima and Khavn responded to our call. Check out their wishes...

“Repossession“, co-director/writers Goh Ming Siu and Scott C. Hillyard’s subtle, topical story of one man’s inexorable psychological collapse at the hands of market forces, will screen at six film festivals during the close of this Northern Hemisphere summer into fall, commencing with its Southern California premiere at the prestigious Dances With Films festival, unspooling August 28 and 31 online in Los Angeles, and concluding (for now) its Fall festival run October 23 at the Chicago Southland International Film Festival.

While the film sits astride psychotronic genres, its real horror, according to Singapore’s Sinema News, “…ironically – mainly comes in the form of the societal realities of cut-throat Singapore.” On this Covid-19 tainted planet, “Repossession”‘s characters’ surprisingly swift downward journeys could mirror that of many others’ worldwide.

In “Repossession,” 50-year-old Jim loses his high-flying job in status-conscious Singapore, but his ego and pride compel him to hide this from his wife and daughter.

Staying idle while you are bursting with creativity does not seem to be an option for the duo behind “Repossession“, even during the strict quarantine laws of Singapore. The result of this mentality is a surprisingly intriguing 4+ minutes short, which seems to dictate the way the two of them should follow for the rest of their filmmaking career.

The story revolves around a man in Singapore during quarantine, who, tired of watching every kind of porn on his cellphone (including Japanese ones), decides to call his girlfriend over to deal with the real thing, despite the quarantine laws. His girlfriend agrees, but things do not go as planned for this cowardly, lazy (he did invite her over instead of going himself after all), lustful individual.

There are some plot twists that forbid from delving into the short more, but what can be said is that Goh Ming Siu and Scott C. Hillyard...

The 24th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival has announced the 30 official selections from 21 countries for this year’s Naff project market. The selections consist of 19 projects for the It Project (including one Korean-Vietnamese co-production) and 11 projects for Project Spotlight Korea. A total of 181 projects from 40 countries were submitted for consideration this year. Selected projects are listed in the table below.

Projects from South Korea and other parts of Asia captured the philosophy that lies deep within the framework of genre films by exploring a variety of topics, such as tradition and political/social conflict, gender identity, and class distinction. (Project Spotlight highlights projects from one Asian country each year; this year’s spotlight will be on South Korea.)

The judges for this year included Kini S. Kim, Kim Young, Jonathan Kim (CEO of Hanmac Culture Group), and Joyce Heeyoung Cho.

The 30 official selections will be candidates for the Naff awards,...

Goh Ming Siu is a seasoned TV writer and director with dozens of credits to his name in his own country of Singapore. “Repossession”, a film whose ambiguity in the title is its finest asset, is his feature debut. The film premiered at Cinequest Film Festival and we were able to catch it at Five Flavours Film Festival.

“Repossession” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival:

When we meet our protagonist, the middle-aged executive Jim, one might argue that his life is about to fall into a downward spiral. After decades of career, he is being fired from work. Or, more precisely, asked to leave because it would look better in his resume. Jim, however, is used to a bourgeois life style (hence his apartment and car) and is too much of an ego-maniac to come clean to his wife Linda (Amy Cheng of “Crazy Rich Asians” fame), his daughter and his friends,...