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HK Filmart 2013: Selling Chinese Films Internationally Is Hard Everywhere

HK Filmart 2013: Selling Chinese Films Internationally Is Hard Everywhere

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 10:53 PM PDT

And you thought it was just North America. Or Europe. Nope, turns out that, even in other parts of Asia, Chinese-language films face huge barriers to wider exhibition. On the first day of Hong Kong Filmart 2013, a conference was held on "The Selling and Branding of Chinese-language Films Internationally." Moderated by Patrick Frater of Film Business Asia, the panelists acknowledged the multitude of challenges. For Doris Pfardescher of Well Go USA, as much as they might like to distribute films outside the comfort zone of North Americans, it simply doesn't pay -- or at least not in terms of finding an audience anywhere near the size of the audiences attracted by martial arts and action movies. "We know what we want," she said, as...

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SXSW 2013 Review: DOWNLOADED is a Fascinating Look at Our Wired Times

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 10:00 PM PDT

Downloaded is a great documentary for many reasons. The greatest of these might be its effortless and uncanny ability to throw into stark relief just how massively the world of computers and the Internet has radically changed in just a few short years. This offering from director Alex Winter takes a look at the little file-sharing community that started it all, Napster, and follows the rise and fall of a concept that indelibly changed the entire world forever. Though slightly long and running with the standard "talking heads" mode of documentation, Downloaded is an informative and comprehensive look at the conception and implementation of Napster, the world's first mp3 file sharing network. Beginning as a mere gleam in the eye of engineer Shawn Fanning,...

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SXSW 2013 Review: MAIDENTRIP is a Beautiful Celebration of Youth

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 04:00 PM PDT

You may have already heard this story: A fifteen-year-old girl wins a legal battle versus the Dutch government to stay in the custody of her parents and is therefore able to set out on her 40-foot sailboat in an attempt to become the youngest person to ever sail around the Earth, solo. If it sounds fantastic, it is. Inspirational? Yep. Daunting? Check. A bit terrifying? That too. But could this really make an interesting documentary considering she is on the boat by herself? In her fascinating and beautifully moving film Maidentrip, young director Jillian Schlesinger answers that question with a resounding, "Yes!" Part of the secret to Schlesinger's success is in Laura Dekker's decision to not simply sail around the world at a breakneck...

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Two New GAME OF THRONES Season Three Clips

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:30 PM PDT

We're just two weeks away from the season three premiere of HBO's Game of Thrones and we have two more promo clips to help tide you over until then. While a primary focus continues to be on Kings Landing, where the Lannisters barely held onto power after a savage naval onslaught from Stannis Baratheon (brother of the late king), stirrings in the North threaten to alter the overall balance of power in Westeros. Robb Stark, King of the North, will face a major calamity in his efforts to build on his victories over the Lannisters in Season 2, while further north, Mance Rayder (new character, played by Ciarn Hinds) and his huge army of wildlings continue their inexorable march south to scale the Wall. Across...

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HKIFF 2013 Review: IP MAN - THE FINAL FIGHT Displays Both Humility and Strength

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 08:18 AM PDT

Herman Yau directs Anthony Wong in this low-key but enjoyable drama focusing on the twilight years of Ip Man's life. Less an action movie than a love letter to 1950s Hong Kong, the film nevertheless cements the man's position as a modern day folk hero.Another week, another Ip Man movie, or so it certainly seems, with Herman Yau's latest arriving so soon after Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster. After Donnie Yen and Wilson Yip brought the wing chun master to life so successfully in 2008, there have been four more bona fide Ip Man films, including Yau's own "prequel", The Legend Is Born: Ip Man from 2010.The Final Fight begins with an elderly Ip Man (Anthony Wong) returning from a visit by his most famous...

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Laotian Horror CHANTHALY Delivers Chills With First Trailer

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Twitch has been following the development of Laotian ghost story Chanthaly with great interest over the previous months. And why not? Director Mattie Do has here delivered the first ever Laotian horror film and is herself the first ever female director to make a feature in that country. Throw in a compelling premise and you've definitely got our interest.Raised alone by her overprotective father sequestered in their home in Vientiane, Chanthaly suspects that her dead mother's ghost is trying to deliver a message to her from the afterlife. After a change in her medication, intended to treat her hereditary heart condition, causes the hallucinations to cease, Chanthaly must decide whether or not to risk succumbing to her terminal illness in order to hear her mother's last words.The first trailer for...

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