Filmart Returns; Hong Kong’s Political Landscape; China Release Schedule
This edition of Streamlined marks exactly one year since I launched this newsletter to summarise and analyse events in the film & streaming content industries across Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. I haven’t managed to keep to a weekly schedule, especially since joining Deadline, and haven’t covered Africa and the Middle East as much as planned, but hope to increase frequency and scope in the near future. In the meantime, a huge thank you to Streamlined’s readers, and please remember that I welcome feedback and your thoughts on what you’d like to see covered.
Can Filmart Regain Its Position As Asia’s Biggest Market?
When I launched Streamlined last year, Filmart was entering its third year as an online event; Hong Kong was in the midst of its fifth and most serious Covid wave; and across the region, production pipelines were backed up and cinemas still experiencing periodic shutdowns and capacity restrictions.
