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IP MAN - THE FINAL FIGHT Opens 37th HKIFF, Full Line-Up Announced

IP MAN - THE FINAL FIGHT Opens 37th HKIFF, Full Line-Up Announced

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 11:40 PM PST

The full line-up of the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival was unveiled today, boasting over 300 titles hailing from 68 different countries and regions around the world. The 17-day festival will open its doors on Sunday, 17 March and run right through the Easter break to close on Tuesday, 2 April.Opening this year's festival is Herman Yau's Ip Man - The Final Fight, his follow-up to 2010's solid but overshadowed The Legend is Born: Ip Man. This new movie, which is at least the fifth film to tackle the story of the legendary wing chun practitioner since 2008, stars Yau favourite Anthony Wong Chau Sang in the title role, as an aging Ip Man in 1950s Hong Kong, where he is forced to take...

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Afghanistan TV Goes Indie in SXSW Selected THE NETWORK

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 08:00 PM PST

Soon to debut at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, The Network documents the creation of the first independent television network in Afghanistan. Eva Orner, an award-winning Australian producer, makes her directorial debut with the documentary. The festival describes the film thusly: Unique, uplifting and heartbreaking, The Network is the story of Afghanistan's first independent television network - TOLO TV - and the family behind it. TOLO TV has grown to be Afghanistan's largest and most successful television network employing over 800 Afghans producing news, current affairs, drama, comedy, music, and lifestyle programs. But as the country faces the impending withdrawal of foreign troops, and with security rapidly deteriorating, the team behind TOLO TV are set to face their biggest challenge yet. You can...

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Kim Jee-woon Takes on Multi-Projection Experimental Short HIDE & SEEK

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 07:00 PM PST

Kim Jee-woon recently signed his Hollywood debut with the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Last Stand and his next feature project will be a live-action adaptation of the anime Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade, but it looks like we'll be getting another new work from him very soon. Following his work on the omnibus Doomsday Book, Kim is returning to the short film format with Hide & Seek, a new experimental short commissioned by CGV, Korea's largest exhibitor.Starring Gang Dong-won (Duelist, Haunters) and Shin Mina (A Bittersweet Life), Hide & Seek involves a character known as X who becomes involved in a chase as he seeks to deliver an unknown object.Previously responsible for 4DX technology (I'm not a fan), CGV is hoping to demonstrate the value...

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Hey, Canada! Win A Free Digital Download Of Ciaran Foy's CITADEL!

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 02:00 PM PST

The title says it all, really. Canada's M.O. Pictures are giving away five free digital downloads of Ciaran Foy's chilling Citadel and all you have to do to have a crack at it is head on over to their Facebook page and sign up! Simple! Check the links below for reviews and trailers!...

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Shane Acker Will Animate BEASTS OF BURDEN

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 01:00 PM PST

In what sounds like a great match of filmmaker and material, Shane Acker (9) will adapt comic book series Beasts of Burden into an animated feature. Reel FX, a design, visual-effects and animation studio based in Dallas, Texas, is backing the project. Founded in 1993, they've done a lot of very good work, and have recently moved into feature film production with The Book of Life (Guillermo del Toro producing) and Turkeys (voice cast led by Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson). Both of those titles are due in theaters late in 2014; the former will be distributed by Fox Animation and the latter by Relativity Media. Acker came to our attention with his short film 9; Twitch's Todd Brown called it "a hugely distinctive post...

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Hey, Toronto! Nikkatsu's Genre Blender THE WOMAN FROM THE SEA Screens Saturday! Win Tickets Now!

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST

The Twitch curated Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years Of Nikkatsu screening series showcases a classic story of the supernatural at the TIFF Bell Lightbox this Saturday with a rare screening of Kurahara Koreyoshi's The Woman From The Sea.A gorgeous, dreamlike fusion of fantasy, romance and horror from Koreyoshi Kurahara, one of the most accomplished, prolific and diverse directors in the Nikkatsu stable. The Woman from the Sea is set in a small fishing village, where one seagoing family has lost every one of its men to the unforgiving waves. The last surviving male member of the clan is yacht-loving youth Toshio (Tamio Kawachi), who one day meets a beautiful, mysterious young woman adrift on the ocean. He soon becomes infatuated by her, but her rather eccentric...

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Opening: BESTIAIRE Examines The Nature Of Gaze

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 10:00 AM PST

With his new narrative feature Vic+Flo Saw a Bear playing at this years Berlinale (read Twitch review here) and snatching the Alfred Bauer Prize/Silver Bear, the adventurous Québécois film critic turned director Denis Côté's intriguing little documentary Bestiaire gets a one-week theatrical run at Cinefamily in Los Angeles, February 19-27, after making the rounds at various film festivals (Sundance, TIFF, Canadian Front) last year. The documentary starts in an art class, where a group of students is sketching an inanimate object. They stare at the object intently. The whole sequence is tense and serious. It turns out that the object is a stuffed deer (or is it a baby antelope?). We are looking at the spectators looking at their subjects. Then we move on to...

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First Trailer For Banjong Pisanthanakun's PEE MAK PHRAKANONG

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 09:00 AM PST

Banjong is back! We brought the first posters for the new horror comedy from Banjong Pisanthanakun - the Thai director who built his name on the back of horror hits Shutter, Alone and Phobia - and the first trailer for his new horror comedy Pee Mak Phrakanong has just followed. An inversion of the popular Mae Nak ghost story - itself the subject of several films - fans will be glad to see the quartet of actors who anchored Pisanthanakun's Phobia shorts here as well. Check it below....

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First Images From Mitchell Altieri's SXSW Selected HOLY GHOST PEOPLE

Posted: 20 Feb 2013 07:30 AM PST

Writer-director-producer Mitchell Altieri is best known as one half of The Butcher Brothers - a name he shares with Phil Flores - but he leaves his regular nom de plume behind, along with the strict horror focus of the Butchers' work, with his upcoming SXSW selected feature Holy Ghost People. In some ways the shift in credited name is a bit surprising as Flores and regular Butcher collaborator Joe Egender are very much present in the film, but in other ways it makes perfect sense. Because while The Butcher Brothers have become something of a brand, brands can be restrictive when you want to do something a little bit different. And this very much is different, though existing fans will still find plenty of darkness...

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