The Taiwanese outfit is bringing 11 projects to the Acfm.
Taiwanese production and sales company Flash Forward Entertainment is bringing 11 projects to Busan, including Arthur Chu’s Kiss My Ass Boss, documentary competition title After Passing and two projects from China.
Action comedy Kiss My Ass Boss is currently shooting and will be introduced to international buyers by Flash Forward at the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm). The 5m feature follows a young man who is disillusioned at work but finds himself being mistaken as the grandson of the company’s biggest shareholder. Award-winning singer-songwriter Crowd Lu plays the lead. An...
Taiwanese production and sales company Flash Forward Entertainment is bringing 11 projects to Busan, including Arthur Chu’s Kiss My Ass Boss, documentary competition title After Passing and two projects from China.
Action comedy Kiss My Ass Boss is currently shooting and will be introduced to international buyers by Flash Forward at the Asian Contents & Film Market (Acfm). The 5m feature follows a young man who is disillusioned at work but finds himself being mistaken as the grandson of the company’s biggest shareholder. Award-winning singer-songwriter Crowd Lu plays the lead. An...
- 10/8/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Family dramas have been used repeatedly in cinema to highlight generational gaps, in one of the most common, and frequently most intriguing “tendencies” of non-mainstream cinema. Documentarist turned filmmaker Yang Lina presents a movie in that fashion, by bringing together three generations of Chinese women whose relationships are mostly dominated by clash and tension.
“Spring Tide” is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia
Guo Jianbo is a journalist specializing in social news, who, as the intro scene highlights, frequently deals with scandals. Her attitude, however, also brings her trouble, since her articles are not exactly of the popular type the audience wants, as a former classmate who is now her higher up repeatedly states. Jianbo is also the mother of a young daughter, Wanting, whom she raises alone, with the help of her mother, as her husband was killed in an accident. The mother, Ji Minglan, helps out in the local community after retirement,...
“Spring Tide” is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia
Guo Jianbo is a journalist specializing in social news, who, as the intro scene highlights, frequently deals with scandals. Her attitude, however, also brings her trouble, since her articles are not exactly of the popular type the audience wants, as a former classmate who is now her higher up repeatedly states. Jianbo is also the mother of a young daughter, Wanting, whom she raises alone, with the help of her mother, as her husband was killed in an accident. The mother, Ji Minglan, helps out in the local community after retirement,...
- 5/7/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Taking up two significant but also quite different issues, in this case the guerrilla war between the Malayan Communist Party (McP) troops and the British army and immigration (in this case of Philippino and Malaysians in Taiwan) is a rather ambitious task. Lau Kek Huat and Vera Chen gave it their best. Let us see how they fared.
Boluomi is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The narrative unfolds in two axes. In the first one, Wu Yi-fan is a Malaysian ethnic Chinese who is studying agriculture in Taiwan, after failing to get into any Malaysian university due to his descent. His life in Taiwan is quite difficult, since he does not get along with the local students, has to work long hours to make ends meet, and his only two friends are two other Malaysian-Chinese, one his age, and one of his professors. Eventually, he meets Laila, a...
Boluomi is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The narrative unfolds in two axes. In the first one, Wu Yi-fan is a Malaysian ethnic Chinese who is studying agriculture in Taiwan, after failing to get into any Malaysian university due to his descent. His life in Taiwan is quite difficult, since he does not get along with the local students, has to work long hours to make ends meet, and his only two friends are two other Malaysian-Chinese, one his age, and one of his professors. Eventually, he meets Laila, a...
- 12/7/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s period drama took eight awards including best film, best director and best actress.Scroll down for the full list of winners
The Assassin dominated this year’s Asian Film Awards, winning eight of the 15 prizes announced on the night.
The period drama, which premiered in competition at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, scooped the ceremony’s major awards for best film and best director for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, as well as best actress for star Shu Qi [pictured right].
The film also took prizes for supporting actress for Zhou Yun, cinematography for Mark Lee Ping-bing, original music for Lim Giong, as well as further awards for production design and best sound.
Other winners on the night included best actor Lee Byung-hun [pictured left] for his role in Min-ho Woo’s crime drama Inside Men, Asano Tadanobu for his supporting turn in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s romantic fantasy Journey To The Shore, and Jia Zhangke...
The Assassin dominated this year’s Asian Film Awards, winning eight of the 15 prizes announced on the night.
The period drama, which premiered in competition at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, scooped the ceremony’s major awards for best film and best director for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, as well as best actress for star Shu Qi [pictured right].
The film also took prizes for supporting actress for Zhou Yun, cinematography for Mark Lee Ping-bing, original music for Lim Giong, as well as further awards for production design and best sound.
Other winners on the night included best actor Lee Byung-hun [pictured left] for his role in Min-ho Woo’s crime drama Inside Men, Asano Tadanobu for his supporting turn in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s romantic fantasy Journey To The Shore, and Jia Zhangke...
- 3/18/2016
- ScreenDaily
Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s period drama took eight awards including best film, best director and best actress.Scroll down for the full list of winners
The Assassin dominated this year’s Asian Film Awards, winning eight of the fifteen prizes announced on the night.
The period drama, which premiered in competition at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, scooped the ceremony’s major awards for best film and best director for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, as well as best actress for star Shu Qi [pictured right].
The film also took prizes for supporting actress for Zhou Yun, cinematography for Mark Lee Ping-bing, original music for Lim Giong, as well as further awards for production design and best sound.
Other winners on the night included best actor Lee Byung-hun [pictured left] for his role in Min-ho Woo’s crime drama Inside Men, Asano Tadanobu for his supporting turn in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s romantic fantasy Journey To The Shore, and Jia Zhangke...
The Assassin dominated this year’s Asian Film Awards, winning eight of the fifteen prizes announced on the night.
The period drama, which premiered in competition at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, scooped the ceremony’s major awards for best film and best director for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, as well as best actress for star Shu Qi [pictured right].
The film also took prizes for supporting actress for Zhou Yun, cinematography for Mark Lee Ping-bing, original music for Lim Giong, as well as further awards for production design and best sound.
Other winners on the night included best actor Lee Byung-hun [pictured left] for his role in Min-ho Woo’s crime drama Inside Men, Asano Tadanobu for his supporting turn in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s romantic fantasy Journey To The Shore, and Jia Zhangke...
- 3/18/2016
- ScreenDaily
The more “international” body of tastemaker critics have anointed Todd Haynes’ Carol, Hou Hsaio-Hsien’s The Assassin, George Miller’s Mad Max, Sean Baker’s Tangerine and Bruno Dumont’s Li’l Quinquin as the better film items for 2015 and top vote getters with the most noms for 2016 Ics Awards. Winners of the 13th Ics Awards will be announced on February 21, 2016. Here are the noms and all the categories.
Picture
• 45 Years
• Arabian Nights
• The Assassin
• Carol
• Clouds of Sils Maria
• The Duke of Burgundy
• Inside Out
• Li’l Quinquin
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
• Tangerine
Director
• Sean Baker – Tangerine
• Bruno Dumont – Li’l Quinquin
• Todd Haynes – Carol
• Hou Hsaio-Hsien – The Assassin
• George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Film Not In The English Language
• Amour Fou
• Arabian Nights
• The Assassin
• Hard to Be a God
• Jauja
• La Sapienza
• Li’l Quinquin
• Phoenix
• A...
Picture
• 45 Years
• Arabian Nights
• The Assassin
• Carol
• Clouds of Sils Maria
• The Duke of Burgundy
• Inside Out
• Li’l Quinquin
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
• Tangerine
Director
• Sean Baker – Tangerine
• Bruno Dumont – Li’l Quinquin
• Todd Haynes – Carol
• Hou Hsaio-Hsien – The Assassin
• George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Film Not In The English Language
• Amour Fou
• Arabian Nights
• The Assassin
• Hard to Be a God
• Jauja
• La Sapienza
• Li’l Quinquin
• Phoenix
• A...
- 2/8/2016
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
In an online free live stream conference the Asian Film Award Academy announced the list of nominees for the 10th Asian Film Awards. The Assassin (Taiwan) by Hsiao-Hsien Hou lead the list with 9 nominations (Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Original Music, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design and Best Sound), Then comes Bajirao Mastani (India) by Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Best Film, Best Editing, Best Original Music, Best Costume Design and Best Visual Effects) and Port of Call (Hong Kong) by Philip Yung (Best Supporting Actress, Best Newcomer, Best Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Cinematography) with 5 nominations each. Mountains May Depart (China) by Jia Zhang Ke, Mr. Six (China) by Guan Hu and Veteran (South Korea) by Ryoo Seung-wan have 4 nominations each.
Best Film
The Assassin (Nie yin niang) by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Hong Kong, China, Taiwan | 2015 Bajirao Mastani by Sanjay Leela Bhansali – India...
Best Film
The Assassin (Nie yin niang) by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Hong Kong, China, Taiwan | 2015 Bajirao Mastani by Sanjay Leela Bhansali – India...
- 2/3/2016
- by Sebastian Nadilo
- AsianMoviePulse
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin leads the nominations for the 10th Asian Film Awards with nine nods, followed by India’s Bajirao Mastani and Hong Kong’s Port Of Call with five apiece.
The Assassin, which won best director in Cannes last year, was nominated for best film, director, actress (Shu Qi), supporting actress (Zhou Yun), cinematography (Mark Lee Ping-bing) and four other technical categories.
Another sumptious period epic, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani, was also nominated for best film, along with best editing, original music, costume design and visual effects.
Philip Yung’s social drama Port Of Call, based on the true story of a mainland prostitute who was murdered in Hong Kong, picked up nods for best supporting actor (Michael Ning), newcomer (Jessie Li), screenplay, editing and Christopher Doyle’s cinematography.
Rounding out the best film category are Jia Zhangke’s Mountains May Depart (France-China); Hashiguchi Ryosuke’s Three Stories Of Love (Japan...
The Assassin, which won best director in Cannes last year, was nominated for best film, director, actress (Shu Qi), supporting actress (Zhou Yun), cinematography (Mark Lee Ping-bing) and four other technical categories.
Another sumptious period epic, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani, was also nominated for best film, along with best editing, original music, costume design and visual effects.
Philip Yung’s social drama Port Of Call, based on the true story of a mainland prostitute who was murdered in Hong Kong, picked up nods for best supporting actor (Michael Ning), newcomer (Jessie Li), screenplay, editing and Christopher Doyle’s cinematography.
Rounding out the best film category are Jia Zhangke’s Mountains May Depart (France-China); Hashiguchi Ryosuke’s Three Stories Of Love (Japan...
- 2/3/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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