News

CHINA RELEASE SCHEDULE: Imports & Co-Productions Oct-Dec 2026

Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday are both scheduled for release in China in December.

Funding News

Purin Film Fund Awards $155k To Five Projects In Autumn 2026 Funding Round

Filmmakers including Indonesia's Makbul Mubarak and Vietnam's Thien An Pham received production grants in Purin's latest funding round.

Festivals

‘Safe Exit’ & 'Citizen Osama' Take Top Awards In El Gouna

Safe Exit scooped the Golden Star for best narrative feature, while Citizen Osama won both best documentary & best Arab documentary.

Korea & Japan

Streamlined Guides: K-Content – Korea Rents The Pipeline

PART FOUR: Who owns the production pipeline when the pipeline is software; what happens to the middle of an industry when the tools no longer need one, and whether Korean speed is still an advantage when the tools can simulate it. Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment

Korea & Japan

BUSAN 2026: Asian Era Of Cooperation; AI Backtrack; Award Winners

This edition of Streamlined is looking at Busan International Film Festival, and its industry platform Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), which both wrapped last week. Two talking points stood out this year: the growing levels of cooperation between Asian filmmaker countries, as conditions across the region become more difficult

Project Markets

Marrakech Atlas Workshops Reveals Line-up; Kleber Mendonça Filho Set As Patron

Marrakech International Film Festival has selected 30 projects from 14 countries for this year's edition of Atlas Workshops.

Southeast Asia

Indonesia’s JAFF Market Selects 21 Projects & IPs, Including Boo Junfeng’s ‘Trinity’

Indonesia’s JAFF Market, which is now on its third edition, has selected 11 feature film projects for its JAFF Future Project section and 10 pieces of intellectual property for JAFF IP Connection. The JAFF Future Project line-up includes one Australian film project, Rosie Lourde’s Wreck And Ruin,

Korea & Japan

Streamlined Guides: K-Content – The Price Of Owning A Hit

PART THREE: What a Korean producer keeps when a show is a hit, why the eight-episode season made the missing clause expensive, and what three deals taught the industry about the price of a Korean right. Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a series that

Festivals

Iranian Director Majid Majidi’s ‘Midday Meal’ Scoops Busan Best Film Award

Eddie Cahyono's 'Ibuku' wins Busan Special Jury Prize; Shashank Walia's 'Birds In The Dark' picks up New Currents Award.

Funding News

German-Turkish CoPro Fund Announces Support For Seven Projects In 2026

Supported projects include new works by Onur Saylak, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu and French-Turkish directing duo Çağla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti.

Australia & New Zealand

Screen Australia Awards $11.8m In Funding To 75 Narrative Projects

Supported projects include Toni Collette's directorial debut and a feature from viral comedy group Sooshi Mango.

News

OSCARS 2027: Best Int'l Feature Submissions

New Zealand submits Mārama; UK picks Rehearsals For A Revolution; Iran's Midday Meal qualifies through Busan.

Funding News

Philippines Launches Two-Track System For International Co-production Fund

The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) has adjusted its International Co‑Production Fund (ICOF) to provide two tracks for minority and majority co-productions.   The Minority Track supports international projects where the Filipino producer holds a minority equity share and offers the following levels of support [US$ amounts

Korea & Japan

Streamlined Guides: K-Content – What A Hit Is Worth & To Whom

PART TWO: Who is paid when a Korean drama succeeds, where that leaves the industry now, and what the next three installments will cover Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a series that looks at the Korean content industry – how it evolved, where it stands now