Liz Shackleton

Stars from both the Hindi and South Indian film industries turned out in force for the opening night of Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, including Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sonam Kapoor and Bhumi Pednekar, along with Tamil star Kamal Haasan, who presented the Excellence in Cinema Award (South Asia) to…

EXCLUSIVE: Labid Aziz’s People of Culture (PoC) Studios has formed a management joint venture with New Breed, Inc. The venture will represent New Breed’s international artists in the U.S. New Breed primarily represents music artists from from Japan, Thailand, Philippines, Korea and U.S., and its new…

Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke is relieved that the festival he founded in the ancient walled city of Pingyao in China's Shanxi province is back on track after a tricky few years during the pandemic.  Now in its seventh edition, Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) takes place in a purpose…

Malaysian filmmaker Amanda Nell Eu has distanced herself from the cut of her feature film Tiger Stripes, which is being released theatrically in Malaysia on October 19 for one week in an Oscars-qualifying run.  The film, which Malaysia has submitted as its entry for the Best International Feature…

Guangzhou-based director Choy Ji has filmed Hong Kong from a perspective we've rarely seen before in his debut feature Borrowed Time, which played at Pingyao film festival this week after screening in Busan's New Currents competition.  Produced by Mo Jinjin and executive produced by Stanley Kwan, the…

Geng Zihan has just won Best Director in the Fei Mu Awards of Pingyao International Film Festival for her debut feature, A Song Sung Blue, a coming-of-age tale set in Harbin in northeast China.  The film, which premiered in Directors Fortnight at this year's Cannes film festival, is produced by Jane…

When Netflix announced in April that it's planning to spend $2.5 billion on Korean content across the next four years, on top of the more than $1 billion already spent since 2016, it made the world sit up and take notice. In many ways, spending heavily in Korea is a no-brainer. Netflix has already…

Receiving its world premiere in Pingyao International Film Festival's Crouching Tigers section, Zhang Yu's feature debut Killing The Violet is the story of a woman dealing with the aftermath of being raped after a man breaks into her apartment.  At first she appears completely calm and assures her…

Chinese director Ning Hao has flown directly from Busan film festival in South Korea to China's Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) with his latest film, The Movie Emperor, starring Andy Lau.  After premiering in Toronto, the satirical comedy played as the closing film in Busan; one of two…

The Buckingham Murders, directed by Hansal Mehta and starring Kareena Kapoor Khan, has been set as the opening film of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. Produced by Ektaa R Kapoor and co-produced by Kapoor Khan, the film recently had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. It follows the…

Indonesian filmmakers Kamila Andini and Ifa Isfansyah are making their Netflix debut with five-part series Cigarette Girl (Gadis Kretek), which streams worldwide from November 2. Deadline sat down with the husband-and-wife filmmaking team, both award-winning arthouse directors in their own right, in…

Wei Shujun's Only The River Flows was presented with Best Film in the Fei Mu Awards at this year's Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF), while Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell, directed by Vietnam's Pham Thien An, won Best Film in the festival's Roberto Rossellini Awards. The Fei Mu Awards…