Sam Manacsa worked as Art Director on award-winning films such as Carlo Francisco Manatad's “Whether the Weather Is Fine”. Her short film, “If People Such as We Cease to Exist” (2016), was selected at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Competition. “Cross My Heart and Hope To Die”was selected to premiere at the 80th La Biennale Venice International Film Festival in the official Orizzonti Short Films Competition and was later screened in Qcinema. The short has already received a number of awards from all over the world, while it is also worth mentioning that a number of filmmakers are also involved in an all-star production that also includes Yov Moor as colorist.
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die screened at Qcinema
The movie begins with a scene that would be laughably absurd if it was not so shockingly dramatic, essentially setting the tone for the film and justifying a number of...
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die screened at Qcinema
The movie begins with a scene that would be laughably absurd if it was not so shockingly dramatic, essentially setting the tone for the film and justifying a number of...
- 12/21/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Zihan Geng was born in Beijing in 1996 and graduated from the Central Academy of Drama. Her short film “A Ray of Sunshine” was selected in competition at the 13th First International Film Festival and nominated for Best Short Story. Her short film “Green Screen” was selected by the 25th LA Shorts International Film Festival. Her current debut feature film, “A Song Sung Blue”, was selected as one of the Top Five of the 5th Cfdg Young Directors Support Program, and later premiered in Cannes, in the Directors' Fortnight Program.
A Song Sung Blue screened at Cannes Official poster – 76th edition © Photo © Jack Garofalo/Paris Match/Scoop – Création graphique © Hartland Villa
Fifteen year-old Xian is having the worst summer of her life. It is not just the issue of being on the verge of adulthood, but also that her mother has an affair with a fellow doctor, and is about to...
A Song Sung Blue screened at Cannes Official poster – 76th edition © Photo © Jack Garofalo/Paris Match/Scoop – Création graphique © Hartland Villa
Fifteen year-old Xian is having the worst summer of her life. It is not just the issue of being on the verge of adulthood, but also that her mother has an affair with a fellow doctor, and is about to...
- 7/8/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
As our tribute to the industry comes to an end, we have collected all the interviews that took place during its run, in a series of discussions we feel shed a rather interesting light to what happens behind and around the cameras of Asian cinema. In that fashion, we interviewed Ed Lejano, Earl Jackson, Matthieu Laclau and Yov Moor, Adam Torel, Kazutaka Watanabe, Amir Muhammad, Samuel Jamier, Joey Leung, Mark Schilling, Chiaki Yanagimoto, Tsogtbayar Namsrai, Wafa Ghermani and Huang Juxiang.
1. Ed Lejano – Director, producer, actor and QCinema artistic director 2. Earl Jackson – Asian cinema academic, writer and teacher 3. Matthieu Laclau – Editor 4. Adam Torel – Owner of Third Window Films 5. Kazutaka Watanabe – Producer 6. Amir Muhammad – Filmmaker, publisher, producer and owner of Kuman Pictures 7. Samuel Jamier – Executive producer of New York Asian Film Festival 8. Joey Leung – Owner of Terracotta Distribution 9. Mark Schilling – Film critic for the Tokyo Times, Variety, journalist, translator, and author 10. Chiaki...
1. Ed Lejano – Director, producer, actor and QCinema artistic director 2. Earl Jackson – Asian cinema academic, writer and teacher 3. Matthieu Laclau – Editor 4. Adam Torel – Owner of Third Window Films 5. Kazutaka Watanabe – Producer 6. Amir Muhammad – Filmmaker, publisher, producer and owner of Kuman Pictures 7. Samuel Jamier – Executive producer of New York Asian Film Festival 8. Joey Leung – Owner of Terracotta Distribution 9. Mark Schilling – Film critic for the Tokyo Times, Variety, journalist, translator, and author 10. Chiaki...
- 7/1/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The Vietnamese filmmaker Le Bao has already shown a considerable talent with his shorts, but after his feature debut “Taste” he seems destined to be regarded as one of the most promising auteurs of today and tomorrow. “Taste” premiered at Berlinale’s more daring and avant-garde competition programme Encounters where it was awarded with the Special Jury Prize. For a reason, since it is one of a kind gripping viewing experience.
Taste screened in Berlinale
The filmmaker demonstrates his sure hand right from the opening long take from a fixed position. An ageing local football coach puts the figurines resembling the over-sized chess pawns on a model of the pitch. The dressing room looks spartan, its walls are bare and the benches holding the complete team are simple. One face and one figure stands out from the rest of the crew: the African man credited as Bassley only in the...
Taste screened in Berlinale
The filmmaker demonstrates his sure hand right from the opening long take from a fixed position. An ageing local football coach puts the figurines resembling the over-sized chess pawns on a model of the pitch. The dressing room looks spartan, its walls are bare and the benches holding the complete team are simple. One face and one figure stands out from the rest of the crew: the African man credited as Bassley only in the...
- 3/12/2021
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
In the limbo between waking and sleeping — a state deliberately induced by Vietnamese director Lê Bảo’s striking feature debut — the framework that allows you to judge dream from nightmare is absent. And anyway, how many of our reveries can be so easily classified as one or the other? “Taste” (the name itself a strange tease for a film that despite its opacity is sensuously preoccupied with food and flesh) is defiantly dreamlike, submerging a barely-there plot into an aesthetic so arresting it becomes the story. Nothing much happens inside its 97 minutes, but take any single one of its frames, and everything is happening inside that.
Inasmuch as it is has a narrative, here it is: A Nigerian footballer (Olegunleko Ezekiel Gbenga), who left his 9-year-old son to come to Saigon as a player, is dropped from the team when injured. He works now as a barber and lives...
Inasmuch as it is has a narrative, here it is: A Nigerian footballer (Olegunleko Ezekiel Gbenga), who left his 9-year-old son to come to Saigon as a player, is dropped from the team when injured. He works now as a barber and lives...
- 3/9/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
In the past decade, Hong Kong has seen a growing number of first-time or emerging filmmakers. To help young filmmakers build a long-term sustainable career and to meet the needs of an increasingly diversified audience culture and film industry, the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) sees a pertinent need to assist filmmakers to expand their professional and personal horizons, enrich their crafts, network and get recognised on local and international levels.
In 2019, coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, one of the world’s most prestigious and influential breeding grounds for accomplished filmmakers, the Hkac presents New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema. Hong Kong-based film critic, journalist and curator, Clarence Tsui, is the Hkac’s guest curator of the film screening series and will conduct discussion panels and workshops under this programme.
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 06.06.2019 – 23.06.2019
Schedule...
In 2019, coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, one of the world’s most prestigious and influential breeding grounds for accomplished filmmakers, the Hkac presents New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema. Hong Kong-based film critic, journalist and curator, Clarence Tsui, is the Hkac’s guest curator of the film screening series and will conduct discussion panels and workshops under this programme.
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 06.06.2019 – 23.06.2019
Schedule...
- 6/2/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
In the past decade, Hong Kong has seen a growing number of first-time and emerging filmmakers. To help young film talents build a long-term sustainable career and meet the needs of an increasingly diversified audience culture and film industry, the Hkac sees a pertinent need to assist filmmakers to expand their professional and personal visions, enrich their crafts, network and get recognised on local and international levels. In 2019, coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, one of the world’s most prestigious and influential breeding grounds for accomplished filmmakers, the Hkac presents New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema (New Waves, New Shores) to introduce how film festivals shape local and international film cultures, markets and industries, and how festivals inspire budding filmmakers to think out of the box and assist their careers. Hong Kong-based film critic, journalist and curator, Clarence Tsui, is...
- 4/13/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
New Waves, New Shores will screen around 20 films, pairing titles selected from past editions of Directors’ Fortnight with films from Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) is collaborating with the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight on a screening and seminar programme, New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema.
Backed by Create Hong Kong, the programme will screen around 20 films from 10 countries, pairing titles selected from past editions of Directors’ Fortnight with films from Hong Kong (see line-up below).
The screenings will be accompanied by talks with the films’ respective talents, a talk on local and international film circuits,...
Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) is collaborating with the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight on a screening and seminar programme, New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema.
Backed by Create Hong Kong, the programme will screen around 20 films from 10 countries, pairing titles selected from past editions of Directors’ Fortnight with films from Hong Kong (see line-up below).
The screenings will be accompanied by talks with the films’ respective talents, a talk on local and international film circuits,...
- 4/10/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
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