Indonesian Filmmaker Garin Nugroho Receives France’s Order Of Arts & Letters streamlined.news/indonesian-f...

Park Kiyong’s Ghost Island, Loeloe Hendra Komara’s A Life Full Of Holes and Netanya Yemina’s To My Dearest, My Dear... were all multiple award winners at the close of JAFF Future Project on Monday night. streamlined.news/ghost-island...

We had an interesting chat in JAFF Market about how Asian animation is evolving - and how it can compete with Pixar and Japanese anime. Thanks to Anggia at Visinema, Izham at Komet and Youngjoo at Finecut for the great insights... streamlined.news/jaff-market-...

'Agak Laen 2' Producer Imajinari Unveils Three-Picture Slate at JAFF Market, Including Debut Action Film, ‘Bandits Of Batavia’ streamlined.news/imajinari-un...

Hot cast, production team and novel combination: Indonesia’s Pal8 Pictures Producing Adaptation Of ‘The Sea Speaks His Name’, Starring Reza Rahadian streamlined.news/indonesias-p...

JAFF Market: What Factors Are Holding Back Further Indonesian Box Office Growth? streamlined.news/jaff-market-...

Indonesia's Magma Entertainment is producing a major piece of Bumilangit IP, The Blind Warrior From The Phantom Cave: Angel Eyes, announced today at JAFF Market & reported by Reza Mardian.. streamlined.news/magma-entert...

Four Indonesia-Malaysia Horror Co-Productions Unveiled At JAFF Market streamlined.news/four-indones...

ICYMI: Here's Jason Tan Liwag's wrap story from QCinema, based in Quezon City, Philippines (recently designated as a UNESCO Creative City of Film). The festival has a strong shorts line-up, something for Streamlined to follow up on.. streamlined.news/a-useful-gho...

KC Global Pacts With Philippines’ Rein Entertainment On Five-Title Slate: New deal follows their collaboration on 'Drug War' & includes TCCF pitching title 'Dose'... streamlined.news/kc-global-pa...

Full list of winners from Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards.. streamlined.news/a-foggy-tale...

QPM winners included Daddy Cool, set in the world of disco during the Philippines' martial law era, along with Penumbra (Singapore), The River Knows Our Names (Vietnam) & two projects from the Philippines: There Is, There Isn't & The Void Is Immense In Idle Hours. streamlined.news/daddy-cool-p...

A bit late due to a crazy travel schedule, but here's a recap of activity at Tokyo film fest, TIFFCOM and TCCF, also touching on the international strategies of Japan and Taiwan, two of the healthier film and TV economies in East Asia... streamlined.news/autumn-marke...

Indian Indie Filmmakers Launch Statement On Lack Of Screen Access After 'Agra’ Gets Limited Slots streamlined.news/indian-indie...

We need to talk about project markets... In the first part of a round-up of Asia's autumn film markets circuit, Streamlined asks if we're heading into an era of too much supply and not enough demand. streamlined.news/autumn-marke...

Bank Thiti To Star In Thai Heist Comedy ‘Esarn Seven’ Produced By TSixtySix Studio & Kliff Studios  deadline.com/2025/11/bank...

I'm late to this as took a much needed break post TIFF & TCCF, but here's the full line-up of JAFF's 20th anniversary edition, taking place in Yogyakarta from November 29-December 6 (and also hosting the second edition of JAFF Market). streamlined.news/jaff-to-open...

It’s so sad to see British media being destroyed by the same right-wing, self-serving forces that have destroyed US media & democracy. The BBC is one of the few media British media outlets not owned by tax-avoiding billionaires. www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

Waves Film Bazaar project selection line-up - see Streamlined for deets on all the project market line-ups in Asia and Middle East until the end of the year.. Film Bazaar Co-production Market 2025: Full Line-Up streamlined.news/film-bazaar-...

TAICCA & Mirror Fiction Invest $10M In Taiwan Production Outfit Mirror Entertainment deadline.com/2025/11/mirr...

TCCF: ‘My Camera, My Gun’ Wins TAICCA X CNC Award; ‘Do You Still Love Me’ Sweeps Series Category deadline.com/2025/11/tccf...

TAICCA CEO Erica Wang On TCCF Mission, Funding Strategies & Taiwan’s Expanding Role In Tech-Driven Content deadline.com/2025/11/taic...

Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Unveils Six-Title Slate Headed By Taiwan-Japan Co-Pro ‘Arrested Memory’ Starring Ethan Juan deadline.com/2025/11/taiw...

Two things I learned today: Thailand is a market where people like to pay for content; and it's also a market where Chinese dramas are more popular than K-dramas. Of course, local content (including BL & GL, but also other genres) is also very popular.. deadline.com/2025/11/thai...

CJ ENM Hong Kong Partners With Taiwan’s Far EasTone Telecom & TVBS On $30M Fund To Invest In Mandarin-language Content deadline.com/2025/11/cj-e...

Purin Film Fund's latest funding round has awarded grants to projects from Le Bao, Alyx Ayn Arumpac, Don Joseph Raphael Eblahan and Chris Chong Chan Fui. streamlined.news/purin-film-f...

Japan’s Nippon TV & TBS Holdings Reveal Global Expansion Strategies deadline.com/2025/10/japa...

Sony’s Shebnem Askin Shares Int’l Production Insights; Says Seeking Action Comedies & Live-Action Remakes Of Japanese Anime   deadline.com/2025/10/sony...

Japan’s Animation Industry Grows 15% To Record $25BN Driven By Overseas Sales  deadline.com/2025/10/japa...

‘One Piece’ Executive Producer Tetsu Fujimura On Japanese IP: “Most Major Properties Are Already Secured But The Next Tier Has Huge Potential”  deadline.com/2025/10/one-...

TIFF LOUNGE: Peter Ho-Sun Chan Talks Asia Co-Production, Changing Chinese Film Biz & Timeline For ‘She Has No Name’ Part Two deadline.com/2025/10/pete...

Carlo Chatrian Talks Expanding Role Of Film Festivals & Discovering Ryusuke Hamaguchi At Tokyo Fest deadline.com/2025/10/carl...

Tokyo Film Festival Opens With Stars & Pledges Of Government Support; Japan To Be Country Of Honour At Next Year’s Cannes Marche deadline.com/2025/10/toky...

Jason Tan Liwag gives us the lowdown on this year's QCinema International Film Festival line-up, including the four competition sections: Asian Next Wave, New Horizons, RainbowQC and QCShorts International. streamlined.news/qcinema-unve...

Tatino Films Launches First Cut Lab Paris For International Projects streamlined.news/tatino-films...

El Gouna Film Festival handed out Golden Stars to films including Colombia's A Poet, Chinese-language documentary Always and Philippines short film Agapito. streamlined.news/el-gouna-gol...

JAFF Market has announced the ten projects selected for JAFF Future Project, along with renewing its partnership with Adelaide Film Festival, following last week's announcement of the IP projects selected for JAFF Content Market. streamlined.news/jaff-future-...

Tokyo Gap Financing Market Launches Project Awards & Seminars deadline.com/2025/10/tiff...

The latest Streamlined looks at CJ ENM's deal with Warner Bros Discovery; Europe's streaming levies and the end of TV as we know it at MIPCOM. streamlined.news/warner-cj-en...

Projects supported by Berlin's WCF in latest funding round include To Leave, To Stay, from Cambodia's Danech San; Plastic Atlantis, from Cape Verde filmmaker Samira Vera-Cruz; and distribution support for Diego Céspedes' The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo. streamlined.news/berlin-world...

I also spoke to Shiina-san and Ikeda-san about this year's TIFFCOM, which will be riding high on the back of a strong year for the Japanese film and TV biz, also in live-action films not just anime. deadline.com/2025/10/tiff...

I spoke to Tokyo fest toppers Ando-san and Ichiyama-san about their goals for this year's festival. TIFF Lounge series this year features Chloe Zhao, Lee Sang-il, Yoji Yamada, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, among others.. deadline.com/2025/10/toky...

How have EU countries regulated Netflix & other streamers to ensure investment flows into local content & producers retain IP ?? Part 1 of the 'Streamlined Guide to Streaming Levies' looks at Europe. Part 2 will look at UK, Aus/NZ, Canada, SA & Brazil. streamlined.news/streamlined-...

Interesting initiative under Sata Cissokho who was recently appointed head of Berlinale's Toolbox Programme and WCF - a new programme to mentor film distribution professionals across the African continent. streamlined.news/berlins-efm-...

This year's Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival in the Philippines faced an uphill battle with funding but still managed to take place & increase box office revenue. Jason Tan Liwag has the full story, including this year's award winners and next year's grantees. streamlined.news/philippines-...

Singapore fest widens its competition criteria; Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel will head the Asian Feature Film Competition jury. streamlined.news/singapore-fe...

Documentary About Thai Politician Pita Limjaroenrat & Fight For Democracy In The Works With U.S., Thai Producers deadline.com/2025/10/pita...

Indian State Of Kerala To Host Film Market Alongside Festival streamlined.news/indian-state...

While in Pingyao, I managed to see Amoeba and talk to director Tan Siyou about her career and the film. Great performances from the young cast and already a few awards in the bag... deadline.com/2025/10/amoe...

One Battle After Another, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey & Zootopia 2 have all been dated for mainland China. streamlined.news/china-releas...