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By Kerrine Goh

05 Sep 2005

Film For Peace - Asem Film Intervention In Conflict Resolution

August headlines on the Israeli pullout from the Gaza strip have shown the capacity of the Middle East leaders to resume strategic agreement together for the benefit of both sides. …

By Jérémy Segay

05 Sep 2005

Pusan International Film Festival Going On Ten – A Success Story

Certainly the most renowned film festival in Asia, the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), will celebrate its 10th anniversary from October 6th to 14th. In less than 10 years, the …

By Kerrine Goh

05 Aug 2005

Film Or Video For The Filmmaker? Its Not The Oven But The Baker And The Dough

Celluloid film has always been regarded as a credible recording medium and art form. Intrinsically organic and chemical, imagery on film is created from a chemical reaction of colour emulsion …

By Kerrine Goh

05 Aug 2005

Silence!

Scriptwriting is in the focus this month with the soon coming deadline for those of you living in a Nisi Masa country and wanted to take part in the script …

By Kerrine Goh

25 Jul 2005

How A Film Get Made - Through An Interactive Tool

If an award would exist to honour the Film Institutions for the quality of their websites, the British Skillset would deserve such still to create “Golden http”. Their website described …

By Kerrine Goh

03 Jun 2005

Cannes 2005 - ASEM Films Co-Production Supported

A movie theatre in Seoul is the starting point for Hong Sangsoo latest film “TALE OF CINEMA”. From there, the plot surfs into the destinies of two men and a …

By Kerrine Goh

03 Jun 2005

Focus on Asia

SEA-Images Catches Up With Singaporean Director/Producer Tania Sng to Share Her Experience at the Creteil International Women Film Festival. Q: Hi Tania. It looks like the trip was really eventful …

By Kerrine Goh

03 May 2005

Ten Years of vow of Chasity

We are now a few days ahead of the Cannes International film festival opening. The European film industry is finalizing its marketing campaigns with emails and newsletter among other means. …

By Kerrine Goh

03 Apr 2005

Straight Talk from the Producer

Malaysian independent producer Lorna Tee produced filmmaker James Lee's award winning ‘Beautiful Washing Machine' a DV feature from Malaysia that recently won the Best ASEAN Feature Film Award at the …

By Kerrine Goh

03 Apr 2005

European Filmmakers Guides to Distribution

The last five years have seen Thailand changing into a major cinema player in the region and, its growing film industry is more present on the international scene too. From …

By Kerrine Goh

03 Apr 2005

Waiting For Wong Kar Wai

Report from Bangkok International Film Festival 2005 by Dave Chua

By Kerrine Goh

03 Apr 2005

A Revolutionary Opera And The Paradise

Dutch stories in Rotterdam and in Berlin by Gyora GAL GLUPCZYNSKI

By Kerrine Goh

03 Feb 2005

The Rites Of Passage Of A Filmmaker: Rejection And The Resilience That Is Created From It

As a filmmaker, and as an artist, rejection comes as a price in our pursuit of creative enlightenment, and fame and fortune. Though no filmmaker wants to admit it, rejection …

By Kerrine Goh

03 Feb 2005

It is not Enough to be Hungarian, You also need to have talent

The talented Hungarian filmmaker Gabor Csupa has been honoured at the Bangkok International Film Festival (18-23 January 2005) for his contribution to the animation film industry. During the event, the …

By Kerrine Goh

25 Jan 2005

What Nationality is your film?

None

The plot is about a recent controversy between a France based production company and a French Court