BLACKBIRD LANDS IN OSAKA
The Osaka Asian Film Festival (March 1-10, 2024) has added eight extra titles to its line-up, together with the award-winning Georgian drama “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry,” which can play in competitors.
Elene Naveriani’s “Blackbird,” a couple of middle-aged girl’s relationship determination, has had huge competition play in Europe (Gijon, Cottbus, Sarajevo, New Horizons) and earned a number of prizes for lead actor Eka Chavleishvili.
Other additions are Cambodian directing duo Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea’s “Tenement”; the world premiere of Hong Kong director Ricky Ko’s “Out of the Shadow”; “Supposed,” by Thanakorn Pongsuwan and “Death Whisperer,” by Taweewat Wantha, which develop the competition’s number of Thai movies to eight; and “The Winter of 1905,” a 1981 movie by Hong Kong director Yu Wei-Cheng, which joins the Taiwan: Movies on the Move 2024 particular part.
Other revival inclusions are: the 4K restored director’s reduce of Patrick Tam’s 1982 Hong Kong film “Nomad” and “240 Hours in One Day,” a 30-minute piece by Teshigahara Hiroshi from 1970.
The competition expects to finish its lineup with bulletins of the opening and shutting movies on Feb. 2.
VESOUL LINEUP
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the feted Iranian director, has been set because the president of the jury on the upcoming version of the Vesoul International Festival of Asian Cinema (Feb. 6-13, 2024) in France. Fellow jurors embody Taiwanese director Zero Chou, Iranian actor Fatemed Motamed-Arya and Japanese star Shogen.
In the narrative characteristic part, the competitors titles embody “All Ears,” by China’s Liu Jiayin; “The Snow Leopard, by the late Pema Tseden; “Work to Do,” by Korea’s Park Hong-jun; “The Spark,” by Rajesh S. Jala from India; “Maria,” by Iran’s Mahdi Asghari Azghadi; “Scream,” by Kazakhstan’s Kenzhebek Shaikakov; “Sunday,” by Shokir Kholikov from Uzbekistan; “Paradise,” from Sri Lanka, directed by Prasanna Vithanage; and “Solids by the Seashore,” by Thailand’s Patiparn Boontarig.
HEY FUZZY YELLOW
Cookbook Media has been appointed as North American content material distributor for the children’ collection “Hey Fuzzy Yellow,” by Toon2Tango, a youngsters and household leisure enterprise headed by tv and film trade consultants Ulli Stoef and Jo Daris. Claudia Scott-Hansen, Cookbook Media’s co-founder, will spearhead efforts to construct broadcast partnerships in North America for the brand new present, which is a co-production by Toon2Tango, Curiosity Ink Media, Treehouse Republic and Hotel Hungaria Animation. It is at the moment in manufacturing, with the primary 24 episodes set for 2024 and full collection supply in March 2025.
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AVIA ADAPTS
The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) has Phil Hardman, senior VP and GM of BBC Studios Asia, as its new chairman following the resignation of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Clément Schwebig, who’s relocating to Europe. Also becoming a member of the AVIA board are Emily Yri, VP of worldwide advertising and marketing at PubMatic, and Shonali Bedi, head of technique, partnerships & insights, APAC, Warner Bros. Discovery.
Louis Boswell, CEO of AVIA, stated, “Schwebig took over in the middle of a pandemic and helped steer the association to safety through those difficult times. He was a strong and vocal advocate for the industry. The board and I are now looking forward to working with Hardman to help guide AVIA through what are clearly challenging times.”
Hardman stated, “AVIA stands on the intersection of the varied challenges and alternatives within the media trade throughout Asia bringing a lot wanted perception, thought management and regulatory & anti-piracy initiatives that profit its members.
The group famous that ladies now account for 4 of its 12 board members.