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Filmart 2025: The Good, The Bad & The Future Of Film Markets
We’re at an interesting inflection point in the global film and TV industries and every successive in-person gathering, including Filmart, which wrapped…
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Filmart Online; Hong Kong films; China's Two Sessions; Ukraine response; Indian cinemas
Welcome to Streamlined, a weekly newsletter that will summarise and analyse events in the content industries outside the Americas & Europe.
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What Venice & Toronto Revealed About The Current State Of World Cinema
After a relatively buoyant if not exemplary Cannes, this year’s autumn festival season is expected to be a bellwether of the current health of the…
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Streamlined Guides: Indonesia - Overview, Studios & Producers
Indonesian films have already broken the all-time annual admissions record at the local box office this year, within just nine months, with horror…
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India’s Cinevesture Fest & Market Launch; Filmart Wrap & Hong Kong Film Industry
It’s taken me a while to gather my thoughts on Filmart and what is currently going on in Hong Kong.
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Cannes 2024 Recap Part One: India’s Complicated Victories & Japan Comes Out Of Its Shell
This year’s Cannes film festival was relatively smooth and controversy free, despite all the speculation in the run-up to the event around France’s…
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Nigeria Goes Global; AFRIFF Plots Market; Doha Launches New Festival
Africa had a notably bigger presence at this year’s Cannes film festival and market, in particular Nigeria, which had My Father’s Shadow in Un Certain…
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Tokyo, TCCF & QCinema: A Tale Of Three Cities Going Global
In November, I inadvertently worked my way down the Pacific Rim, covering film festivals and markets in Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines.
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How Korean Films Are Performing In Global Markets Since The Pandemic
This week, I’m sharing an article I wrote for KoBiz about how Korean films are being received internationally since the pandemic.
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Inside Mainland China’s Scorching Hot Box Office Summer
Last weekend I decided to take a look at mainland China’s box office recovery from the inside and took the ferry across to Shenzhen to watch some…
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Success Of ‘Ne Zha 2’: Could This Finally Be China’s Soft Power Moment?
Last weekend I finally went to see Ne Zha 2 and began to understand why this Chinese animated film has grossed US$2bn.
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Busan Talking Points: Korean Box Office Blues; Netflix Effect & Southeast Asia Rising
It’s been far too long since I sent out an edition of Streamlined, thanks to a crazy travel schedule with trips to Manila and Jakarta, followed by…
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