Established in 1995 for the commemoration of the centennial of cinema and the 70th anniversary of NHK, the film project, “NHK Asian Film Festival”, is now celebrating its 10th anniversary. NHK is the Japanese […]

SEA-Images meets with Olivier Aknin of Backup Films to talk about their activities of film financing. Backup Films participated in search of financers and the production of Tropical Malady, the acclaimed piece by […]

Korean culture has made its way into France as it has been the case in most countries in Asia. But different from these Asian countries where pop music and TV series are widely popular, in France, Korean culture […]

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In the past years, quite an important number of Asian films have been co-produced with France: Day and Night by Wang Chao and Floating Landscape by Carol Lai from China, Les gens de la rizière […]

This month film.culture360.org (formerly know as SEA-IMAGES) meets with Yang Gi-hwan, the executive director of the Coalition for Cultural Diversity in Moving Images (CDMI), to discuss the current situation of […]

Laos is one of the latest Asian countries that have joined ASEF and remains one of the less documented on the Film.Culture360.org website, along with Brunei.
Laos has no direct access to the sea and is the less […]

The Cinemanila International Film Festival and the Jakarta International Film Festival has just turned 10 years old this year.  It seems to be high time that we had a look at the history and recent developments of […]

Film.Culture360 meets with Charlotte Appelgren of Cine-Regio, the European network of regional film funds.
Cine Regio is a network of European regional film funds.  What are the main activities and objectives of […]

source: VOV News & Thanh Nien News The 17th Vietnam Film Festival will be held in the southcentral province of Phu Yen from December 16-18. The information was announced by the Department of Cinematography and the Phu Yen Provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism on July 23. During the event film lovers will see many Vietnamese…[Read more]

Guillaume Desjardins from CNBC reports on the controversy surronding the premiere presentation of the last instalment of the Harry Potter franchise. On Tuesday, July 12, around 10,000 Harry Potter fans rallied towards the Parisian concert hall of Bercy to celebrate the premiere of the last episode of the adventures of the world’s most famous…[Read more]

Seven Bulgarian films will participate in the 17th edition of Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) to be held from July 22nd to July 30th in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Four Bulgarian films will feature on SFF’s selection of competitive films, including “Ave” by Konstantin Bojanov, documentaries “Manchester United from Svishtov” by Stefan…[Read more]

Organised by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in Singapore and Cathay Cineplexes, the Hong Kong Film Festival 2011 (HKFF) opened in Singapore on July 13 with the premiere of “Gallants”, a winner of multiple awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards this year. Speaking at the gala premiere, the Director of the HKETO [...]

News agency Kyodo reports that a Japanese film week kicked off on June 18 in Shanghai, China. Organised by the Japanese Foreign Ministry and other organizations, the event is held as part of the Japan-China Screen Image Exchange Program. A total of 11 films will be screened in the presence of film directors and actors. [...]

Following on from the success of last year’s cinema retrospective “Femmes, Femmes, Femmes”, Le French May is presentingt a new and ambitious programme that pays tribute to one of France and Hong Kong’s favourite genres, Film Noir. The programme comprises three parts: Panorama, which focuses on French contemporary cinema over the last decade;…[Read more]

Slovenia and France signed an agreement on cooperation in film production in Brussels on May 19th. “In the future we can expect for example Isabelle Huppert to star in a Jan Cvitkovic film,” Slovenian Culture Minister Majda Sirca illustrated the possibilities provided by the agreement. According to her, the agreement, signed on the sidelines of [...]

The last decade witnessed an impressive proliferation of human rights film festivals all over the world. The formula of such a festival appeared attractive, both to the audiences and to prospective festival organizers. Most of those festivals cooperate and they form a world-wide movement. Here, in brief is a presentation of this interesting and…[Read more]