QCinema Launches First Project Market: Opens Networking and Funding Opportunities for PH and  Southeast Asian Filmmakers

QCinema International Film Festival is set to provide another opportunity for Filipino and Southeast Asian filmmakers to reach a global audience as it launches the QCinema Project Market.   The QCinema Project Market (QPM) is a platform for Southeast Asian filmmakers and producers to secure funding, expand their networks, gain exposure, develop their skills, and contribute …

QCinema Asian Next Wave returns after two years, features seven new titles competing for the Pylon Award

QCinema’s main competition, Asian Next Wave, makes its much-awaited return in the festival’s special 10th edition, after an absence of two years. Focusing on emerging filmmakers from Southeast Asia and East Asia with less than three features, this year’s competition slate features seven new titles competing for the Pylon Award. Fresh from its world premiere in …

HOOQ Filmmakers Guild Now Open for 2nd Season After Naming 1st Winner

HOOQ, the largest Video on Demand service in South East Asia, has concluded its inaugural HOOQ Filmmakers Guild with India’s submission “Bhak” coming out as the winner. HOOQ will fund the full season of “Bhak” that will live stream exclusively on its platform. “Bhak” was up against five other pilots from Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand, …

Sinag Maynila Film Festival 2017 Opens With Brillante Mendoza’s “Reflections”

The Sinag Maynila Film Festival “Sine Lokal, Pang-Internasyonal” officially opens on March 9, Thursday, at SM Aura Premier. Filmmakers and the actors from each film entry, special guests, and the media are invited to grace the opening ceremony of the festival.  Sinag Maynila opens the festival with a special screening of Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016: Reflections, the first of the …