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Evolve Studios has unveiled the first looks for “Posthouse,” the feature directorial debut from Nikolas Red that recently wrapped production in Manila. The supernatural horror film, which explores the Philippines’ lost silent film history through a modern ghost story, is now entering post-production with sights set on this year’s festival circuit.

“We just wrapped production and are excited to finish post and find opportunities in the festival circuit. We are aiming to release this year,” revealed cult filmmaker Mikhail Red, who serves as creative producer on his brother’s debut feature.

The film follows a haunted film editor and his estranged daughter who accidentally unleash a mythic creature while restoring an unfinished silent horror film. The project stars Sid Lucero (Netflix’s “Outside”) as Cyril and Bea Binene (Prime Video’s “Nokturno”) as Rea.

“I really wanted to support Nikolas’ unique and creative vision and his take on cinema heritage and horror,...

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Rachel Perkins has been appointed as chair of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (Aftrs) council for a period of three years. She follows previous chairs Russell Howcroft and Debra Richards. Aftrs is Australia’s leading specialist education, training and research institution, supporting excellence in Australian screen and audio storytelling.

“Rachel is one of Australia’s leading storytellers, particularly when it comes to First Nations stories,” said Minister for the Arts, Tony Burke.

A graduate of Aftrs, writer, director and producer, Perkins founded Blackfella Films, which has gone onto become one of Australia’s leading production companies. Its recent documentary series “The Australian Wars” won most outstanding factual or documentary program at the 2023 TV Week Logie Awards, as well as best documentary or factual program and best direction in nonfiction television at the 2024 Aacta awards.

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Considering the impact the, essentially newly found #MeToo movement in Japan had the last few years, as a number of scandals came to the fore, local cinema was bound to start dealing with the concept. Urara Matsubayashi, who is also an actress who was a victim of sexual assault herself, seems like the ideal person to talk about what is happening in that regard, in her directorial debut, “Blue Imagine”.

Blue Imagine is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam

The film begins in rather harsh fashion, with a director and a producer getting an actress who is vying to be in a movie drunk, and one of them doing something completely despicable to her as soon as they are left alone. The said actress, Noel, later finds herself going to Blue Imagine, a cafe/restaurant which also doubles as sanctuary for women who have fallen victims of assault, even offering...

Even if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it doesn't have to be one. This would be the core message of Perci Intalan's light-weight comedy “I Love You, Beksman” starring Christian Bables as Dali, a young man who despite of all signs that point in direction of his homosexuality, outs himself as straight, to the horror of his family and closest friends.

“I Love You, Beksman” screened at The Slovak Queer Film Festival

Given it's a comedy, no one expects a deep study of human condition or some kind of meaningful message for the audience. The question is though – who exactly is the target group of this strange film with an awkwardly plotted love story? Admittedly, we should be long past the normative thinking, and yet, “I Love You Beksman” sticks to those norms by using clichés to depict the LGBTQ+ community.

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Some twenty aspiring film projects have been selected to participate in the inaugural edition of the Qcinema Project Market (Nov. 18-19) that this year represents and expansion of the QCinema Film Festival in The Philippines’ Quezon City.

The selected titles include development projects by several of East Asia’s better known independent and art-house directors and projects. Among them is “Filipinana,” which on Tuesday collected three prizes at Busan’s Asian Project Market. Another is “Fox King,” by well-established Malaysian filmmaker Woo Ming Jing, which will also travel to the Tokyo Gap Financing Market. Also lining up is established Singapore filmmaker Boo Junfeng and producer partner Raymond Phathanavirangoon with “Trinity.”

The 20 selected projects are vying for over $400,000 in grants and prizes, including a $35,000 co-production grants for Southeast Asian projects and $50,000 for Filipino projects.

“From an impressive submission of sixty five projects from all over the region, these selected projects really...

Gender roles and their appeal to the woke culture are once again thrust into the spotlight with this unconventional love story that breaches the stereotype of the modern man doing macho “man things”. Perci Intalan's latest is a colorful and humorous spectacle, a coming-out party with an unconventional twist that glitters with pure energy.

I Love You, Beksman is screening at New York Asian Film Festival

Dali (Christian Bables) is a flamboyant make-up artist with a fabulous hairdo the brightest shade of red, a wardrobe full of loud flowery patterns, and is just a bit soft ‘like a makeup sponge'. But there is one other thing you need to know about Dali: he is not gay, or at least he thinks he's not. After Dali arrives fashionably late for a stint at the Miss Manilla Pageant, he bumps into a pageant hopeful, the gorgeous Angel who takes his breath...