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Upcoming projects from award-winning directors Huang Ji, Qiu Jiongjiong, and Chong Keat Aun are among the 15 works-in-progress (Wip) titles selected for the 23rd Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF23).

The upcoming features will be showcased during the Hkiff Industry Project Market, set to take place from March 17-19 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre during the 29th Hong Kong Filmart.

After winning best film at the 60th Golden Horse Awards for Stonewalling, Huang Ji and her regular collaborator Ryuji Otsuka will present A Woman Builds, about a Chinese woman who commits herself to building a house in her hometown while living a pseudo-single life,...

How do you react if you’re an award-winning actress but feel like you don’t have much control over the direction of your career? In the case of Taiwan’s Yen Yi-wen, you start writing and directing your own series.

Based on her own experiences, Yen has written and directed 12-part series, Born For The Spotlight, produced by Netflix and Third Man Entertainment, which is streaming globally from November 7. The Taipei-set drama revolves around a group of actresses, spanning different generations, from a newcomer trying to get her first break in the industry to an older soap opera star, who feels she can’t retire because she needs to support her family.

The core group of characters includes three women supposedly at the top of their game – an actress turned manager (played by Hsieh Ying-xuan); her former friend and current adversary (played by Cheryl Yang), who is struggling with...

Following up Sasquatch Sunset, it was announced the Zellner Brothers would embark on the alien invasion comedy Alpha Gang led by Cate Blanchett. They’ve now amassed quite an ensemble, with Dave Bautista, Steven Yeun, Zoë Kravitz, Léa Seydoux, Riley Keough, and Channing Tatum all coming aboard the project, Deadline reports. Here’s the synopsis: Alpha Gang centers on a group of alien invaders sent to conquer Earth. Disguised in human form as a 1950s leather-clad biker gang, dubbed the Alpha Gang. They are ruthless in their mission, until they succumb to the most toxic and contagious human condition of all: emotions.”

Al Pacino has some new cast members for his next feature. Jessica Chastain, Brendan Fraser, and Bryan Cranston have joined Barry Levinson’s mystery thriller Assassination, scripted by David Mamet. Deadline reports the film explores a new angle on the JFK conspiracy, “centering around Kilgallen (Chastain), one of...

Wi Ding Ho’s dark drama “Terrorizers” doesn’t only share the title with Edward Yang’s classic from 1986, it likewise focuses on a group of individuals in Taipei outcasted in one form of the other, longing to break out from loneliness. Their destinies will intertwine through a slashing incident in a public space, with the film revolving around events that preceded or followed that moment, crucial in puzzling the story pieces together.

“Terrorizers“ is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival

The plot is put in the context of societal malaise, dependency on social media and the switch of realities. The ‘earthly’ life gets hijacked by the pixelized in “Terrorizers”, a film that also speaks about how much power we gave to the internet and how little it takes to ruin a person’s life by exposing sensitive content online. While one of the...

Wi Ding Ho’s dark drama “Terrorizers” doesn’t only share the title with Edward Yang’s classic from 1986, it likewise focuses on a group of individuals in Taipei outcasted in one form of the other, longing to break out from loneliness. Their destinies will intertwine through a slashing incident in a public space, with the film revolving around events that preceded or followed that moment, crucial in puzzling the story pieces together.

“Terrorizers” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival

The plot is put in the context of societal malaise, dependency on social media and the switch of realities. The ‘earthly’ life gets hijacked by the pixelized in “Terrorizers”, a film that also speaks about how much power we gave to the internet and how little it takes to ruin a person’s life by exposing sensitive content online. While one of the four main characters finds his...

Wi Ding Ho’s dark drama “Terrorizers” doesn’t only share the title with Edward Yang’s classic from 1986, it likewise focuses on a group of individuals in Taipei outcasted in one form of the other, longing to break out from loneliness. Their destinies will intertwine through a slashing incident in a public space, with the film revolving around events that preceded or followed that moment, crucial in puzzling the story pieces together.

The plot is put in the context of societal malaise, dependency on social media and the switch of realities. The ‘earthly’ life gets hijacked by the pixelized in “Terrorizers”, a film that also speaks about how much power we gave to the internet and how little it takes to ruin a person’s life by exposing sensitive content online. While one of the four main characters finds his ideal space of existence on the internet, the others...

Xiaofan (“Quentin”) Shi is a Chinese visual artist and photographer who lives between New York and Beijing. He has previously directed three short films – “A Parisian Movie” (2011), “In a Lovely Place” (2017) and “Love Letter” (2019). In his directorial long feature film debut “Café by the Highway” which has just had its international premiere in the main competition of the Moscow International Film Festival, Shi’s artistic background takes over, with the film taking shape of neatly arranged artistic ideas that fill the holes in the script.

After being sacked from her barista job in Shanghai, Yuanfang (Yase Liu) returns to her hometown Baima to make peace with her estranged father. But once she gets home, there is neither sign of him, nor her cats. The old man is somewhere “on a top secret special task”, she is told, and almost like he knew she was coming, he arranged her a job.

Ryuichi Sakamoto played at the opening ceremony with stars including Bai Baihe, Yang Kuei-mei, Jang Dong-gun and Hyun Bin on the red carpet.

The 23rd Busan International Film Festival (Biff) kicked off tonight (October 4) with a windy, star-studded red carpet and a piano performance from Asian Filmmaker of the Year award winner Ryuichi Sakamoto, amidst reports of an approaching typhoon.

Reinstated festival head Jay Jeon and chairman Lee Yong-kwan emphasised a return to “stability and harmony” after four years of conflict over freedom of expression issues that swept through South Korea, as well as Biff, as part of deposed president Park Geun-hye’s blacklisting efforts.