Selections include new projects from directors Farkhat Sharipov and Ash Mayfair.
The 3rd Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (Tgfm) has unveiled 20 projects selected for financing and development at Tiffcom, the affiliated content market of Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).
Selections include new projects by known directors such as recent Berlinale Generation 14plus prize-winner Farkhat Sharipov (Scheme), Ash Mayfair (The Third Wife) and Tom Waller (The Cave).
Hong Kong’s Toe Yuen, known for Annecy prize-winner My Life As McDull (2001), also has a new animation in the lineup.
Organised by UniJapan, Tgfm will run as part of Tiffcom online October 25-27. The 35th...
The 3rd Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (Tgfm) has unveiled 20 projects selected for financing and development at Tiffcom, the affiliated content market of Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).
Selections include new projects by known directors such as recent Berlinale Generation 14plus prize-winner Farkhat Sharipov (Scheme), Ash Mayfair (The Third Wife) and Tom Waller (The Cave).
Hong Kong’s Toe Yuen, known for Annecy prize-winner My Life As McDull (2001), also has a new animation in the lineup.
Organised by UniJapan, Tgfm will run as part of Tiffcom online October 25-27. The 35th...
- 9/20/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Lgbtq-focused streaming platform GagaOOLala officially launched worldwide Friday in all territories except for China and North Korea.
The streamer is backed by Taipei-based Portico Media, one of the co-founders of the Taiwan International Queer Film Festival. Its launch comes a week before the one-year anniversary of the day Taiwan became the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.
GagaOOLala is now available worldwide for $6.99 a month. All films currently are equipped with English and Chinese subtitles, with other languages pending as the company monitors content popularity in different regions. It debuts in the U.S. with around 300 titles to start; in Taiwan, it has around 1,000 films.
Although a bit player compared to the other giants in the global streaming wars, Portico Media CEO Jay Lin says he feels his platform has a niche.
“Of course there are Lgbt-focused services in Europe and the U.S., but they’re almost exclusively Western.
The streamer is backed by Taipei-based Portico Media, one of the co-founders of the Taiwan International Queer Film Festival. Its launch comes a week before the one-year anniversary of the day Taiwan became the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.
GagaOOLala is now available worldwide for $6.99 a month. All films currently are equipped with English and Chinese subtitles, with other languages pending as the company monitors content popularity in different regions. It debuts in the U.S. with around 300 titles to start; in Taiwan, it has around 1,000 films.
Although a bit player compared to the other giants in the global streaming wars, Portico Media CEO Jay Lin says he feels his platform has a niche.
“Of course there are Lgbt-focused services in Europe and the U.S., but they’re almost exclusively Western.
- 5/16/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The door has opened wider for gay content in Taiwan since the island became the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in May, and companies like CEO Jay Lin’s Portico Media are hoping to turn Lgbtq stories into good business.
The firm is ramping up its development of originals on its GagaOOLala platform, Asia’s first and only Ott streamer for Lgbtq content, and is hosting events to bring industry players in this space together from across the region.
The ground appears to be fertile. More than a hundred attendees came to Taipei discuss the future of streaming and of gay-content creation earlier this month at the first Gol Summit, organized by GagaOOLala’s development arm, Gol Studios. And between this year and next, a record-setting dozen or so gay-themed films will be getting a theatrical release in Taiwan.
The legalization of same-sex marriage has “allowed us to...
The firm is ramping up its development of originals on its GagaOOLala platform, Asia’s first and only Ott streamer for Lgbtq content, and is hosting events to bring industry players in this space together from across the region.
The ground appears to be fertile. More than a hundred attendees came to Taipei discuss the future of streaming and of gay-content creation earlier this month at the first Gol Summit, organized by GagaOOLala’s development arm, Gol Studios. And between this year and next, a record-setting dozen or so gay-themed films will be getting a theatrical release in Taiwan.
The legalization of same-sex marriage has “allowed us to...
- 12/12/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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