For 2024, Queer East Festival launches its fifth year milestone with a remarkable line up of film screenings, arts and performance events across London from 17 to 28 April 2024 and then across the UK later in the year. The programme includes contemporary feature films, documentaries and shorts as well as special anniversary and retrospective screenings that showcase a wide range of LGBTQ+ stories from East Asia, Southeast Asia and their diaspora communities.
Queer East Festival's ground-breaking film programme challenges conventions and stereotypes giving audiences an opportunity to explore the contemporary queer landscape across East and Southeast Asia. Amplifying the voices of Asian communities are the UK Premieres of features, documentaries and shorts exploring young queer love, gender nonconformity and asexual identity, as well as thought-provoking classics with the 20th Anniversary screening of Chinese-American romantic comedy Saving Face and 50th Anniversary screening of the once-considered-lost Japanese title Bye Bye Love. Furthermore, the festival's ‘Expanded'...
Queer East Festival's ground-breaking film programme challenges conventions and stereotypes giving audiences an opportunity to explore the contemporary queer landscape across East and Southeast Asia. Amplifying the voices of Asian communities are the UK Premieres of features, documentaries and shorts exploring young queer love, gender nonconformity and asexual identity, as well as thought-provoking classics with the 20th Anniversary screening of Chinese-American romantic comedy Saving Face and 50th Anniversary screening of the once-considered-lost Japanese title Bye Bye Love. Furthermore, the festival's ‘Expanded'...
- 3/20/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Paramount Plus
Beverley McGarvey has been appointed president of Network 10, head of streaming and regional lead for Australia and New Zealand, with immediate effect by Paramount Global. She reports to Pam Kaufman, president & CEO of international markets, global consumer products and experiences at the group. The role gives her oversight of Network 10 and its portfolio of brands, including 10 Play.
McGarvey will maintain her current responsibilities, overseeing all original content out of Australia in alignment with Paramount’s global studio organisation and the businesses’ commercial capabilities. She will also continue to lead Paramount+ in Australia, reporting to Marco Nobili, EVP and international Gm of Paramount+.
“Beverley is one of Australia’s leading media executives and has a proven track record of driving creative and commercial success in one of our most important, priority markets,” said Kaufman.
“We are well-positioned to maintain our strong position in Australia as the only...
Beverley McGarvey has been appointed president of Network 10, head of streaming and regional lead for Australia and New Zealand, with immediate effect by Paramount Global. She reports to Pam Kaufman, president & CEO of international markets, global consumer products and experiences at the group. The role gives her oversight of Network 10 and its portfolio of brands, including 10 Play.
McGarvey will maintain her current responsibilities, overseeing all original content out of Australia in alignment with Paramount’s global studio organisation and the businesses’ commercial capabilities. She will also continue to lead Paramount+ in Australia, reporting to Marco Nobili, EVP and international Gm of Paramount+.
“Beverley is one of Australia’s leading media executives and has a proven track record of driving creative and commercial success in one of our most important, priority markets,” said Kaufman.
“We are well-positioned to maintain our strong position in Australia as the only...
- 3/18/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
“Asog” is a 2023 docufiction by Filipino-Canadian director Seán Devlin, making it his second full-length feature. It debuted at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize for Screenwriting, International Narrative Feature at the 2023 Outfest. After “When The Storm Fades” (2018), Devlin comes back with another impactful testimony on the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda, by mixing comedy and realism.
Asog is screening at Cinemasia
Philippines, 2013. The Super Typhoon Yolanda, also called Typhoon Haiyan, devastated the country. It killed thousands of people and destroyed entire towns and islands. Life hasn't been easy since the natural disaster struck the territory, and its citizens still have to get back on their feet. Jaya (Jaya), a non-binary former teacher and comedian, loses their TV show as the studio is washed away in the typhoon. Meanwhile, one of their former students, Arnel (Arnel Pablo), is left alone at home as he recently lost his mother and his father is away.
Asog is screening at Cinemasia
Philippines, 2013. The Super Typhoon Yolanda, also called Typhoon Haiyan, devastated the country. It killed thousands of people and destroyed entire towns and islands. Life hasn't been easy since the natural disaster struck the territory, and its citizens still have to get back on their feet. Jaya (Jaya), a non-binary former teacher and comedian, loses their TV show as the studio is washed away in the typhoon. Meanwhile, one of their former students, Arnel (Arnel Pablo), is left alone at home as he recently lost his mother and his father is away.
- 3/5/2024
- by Federica Giampaolo
- AsianMoviePulse
From March 5 to 10, the 16th edition of the CinemAsia Film Festival will bring Asian cinema to Amsterdam at Studio/K, Rialto De Pijp, and Rialto Vu. Since CinemAsia's first edition in 2004, the Competition program has been at the heart of the festival. This year, the competition features seven titles from a new generation of filmmakers from China, Japan, Indonesia, India, Mongolia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. On March 10, the 2024 CinemAsia Jury Award winner will be announced during the closing ceremony, and the festival will conclude with the film Gaga by Golden Horse-winning director Laha Mebow, the first indigenous female director of Taiwan, who will be in attendance.
Seven competition films covering the diversity of Asia
In the Competition program, CinemAsia puts the spotlight on emerging independent filmmakers with a distinct artistic voice and cinematographic vision. The films showcase the wealth of themes and genres in Asian cinema and reflect a mosaic of cultural,...
Seven competition films covering the diversity of Asia
In the Competition program, CinemAsia puts the spotlight on emerging independent filmmakers with a distinct artistic voice and cinematographic vision. The films showcase the wealth of themes and genres in Asian cinema and reflect a mosaic of cultural,...
- 1/26/2024
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The CinemAsia Film Festival in Amsterdam has unveiled titles from seven different Asian countries for its competition section.
The festival will play at the Studio/K, Rialto De Pijp and Rialto Vu venues March 5-10, 2024. The event will close with the out-of-competition screening of “Gaga,” a drama about indigenous communities in Taiwan, directed by Laha Mebow.
“Gaga” documents the challenges faced by a commune after the death of a respected tribal elder who, while alive, had held things together. Following his death problems that emerge include a land dispute, financial difficulties, an unwanted pregnancy and the risk of over-riding ‘Ga Ga’ or old tribal norms. It debuted at the 2022 Golden Horse festival and won the best director and best supporting actress awards. In 2023, it won a trio of awards including best narrative feature at the Taipei Film Festival.
This year’s seven competition titles include: “A Song Sung Blue,” by China’s Geng Zihan,...
The festival will play at the Studio/K, Rialto De Pijp and Rialto Vu venues March 5-10, 2024. The event will close with the out-of-competition screening of “Gaga,” a drama about indigenous communities in Taiwan, directed by Laha Mebow.
“Gaga” documents the challenges faced by a commune after the death of a respected tribal elder who, while alive, had held things together. Following his death problems that emerge include a land dispute, financial difficulties, an unwanted pregnancy and the risk of over-riding ‘Ga Ga’ or old tribal norms. It debuted at the 2022 Golden Horse festival and won the best director and best supporting actress awards. In 2023, it won a trio of awards including best narrative feature at the Taipei Film Festival.
This year’s seven competition titles include: “A Song Sung Blue,” by China’s Geng Zihan,...
- 1/23/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
No Maori Allowed, directed by Corinna Hunziger was named the winner of the Pasifika Award and recipient of a $5,000 cash prize at the Hawaii International Film Festival.
It recounts the story of a teacher who unearths a secret past in the town of Pukekohe. That causes Maori community figures to come forward to share personal stories that shaped their lives.
The festival’s Kau Ka Hōkū or shooting star award for an international emerging filmmaker making their first or second feature film, was awarded to “Asog,” by Sean Devlin. It is a tragicomic road film that follows a non-binary Filipino comedian pursuing their dream of becoming a pageant queen.
The jury also provided honorable mentions for performance to “Mustache,” directed by Imran Khan and to “Tiger Stripes,” directed by Amanda Nell Eu.
This year’s Best Made In Hawai‘i Feature winner was Hōkūle‘a: Finding The Language of the Navigator,...
It recounts the story of a teacher who unearths a secret past in the town of Pukekohe. That causes Maori community figures to come forward to share personal stories that shaped their lives.
The festival’s Kau Ka Hōkū or shooting star award for an international emerging filmmaker making their first or second feature film, was awarded to “Asog,” by Sean Devlin. It is a tragicomic road film that follows a non-binary Filipino comedian pursuing their dream of becoming a pageant queen.
The jury also provided honorable mentions for performance to “Mustache,” directed by Imran Khan and to “Tiger Stripes,” directed by Amanda Nell Eu.
This year’s Best Made In Hawai‘i Feature winner was Hōkūle‘a: Finding The Language of the Navigator,...
- 10/26/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Est N8, a recently-established finance, production and rights sales company, has added a Hong Kong remake of classic film “Tape” and the LGBT comedy-drama “Asog” to its bulging sales slate at the Afcm market that accompanies the Busan Intenational Film Festival.
“Tape” tells the story of three best friends who, following an event at a graduation party that transforms their lives, reunite 15 years later where a case of blackmail forces them to confront a terrible secret from their past.
The original film starred Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Robert Sean Leonard and played at the Sundance, Toronto and Rotterdam festivals.
In the Cantonese-language remake directed by Bizhan Tong, Selena Lee, Kenny Kwan, and Adam Pak play the contemporary characters while Mason Fung, Summer Chan, and Angus Yeung portray the characters’ younger versions.
The script is written by Stephen Belber, Tong, Lee and Bonnie Lo, and is an adaptation of Belber...
“Tape” tells the story of three best friends who, following an event at a graduation party that transforms their lives, reunite 15 years later where a case of blackmail forces them to confront a terrible secret from their past.
The original film starred Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Robert Sean Leonard and played at the Sundance, Toronto and Rotterdam festivals.
In the Cantonese-language remake directed by Bizhan Tong, Selena Lee, Kenny Kwan, and Adam Pak play the contemporary characters while Mason Fung, Summer Chan, and Angus Yeung portray the characters’ younger versions.
The script is written by Stephen Belber, Tong, Lee and Bonnie Lo, and is an adaptation of Belber...
- 10/8/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The title premiered in Tribeca, and will play at BFI London Film Festival.
UK sales outfit Studio Soho International, the sales arm of Film Soho, has boarded European sales of Seán Devlin’s Asog, with Los Angeles-based finance, production and sales outfit Est Studios representing rights in the rest of the world.
The film premiered in Tribeca, and will also play at BFI London Film Festival. It was part of this year’s Cannes Docs-in-Progress, and blends road movie with elements of documentary. A typhoon survivor, a newly jobless schoolteacher and non-binary Filipino comedian embark on a road trip to a drag pageant.
UK sales outfit Studio Soho International, the sales arm of Film Soho, has boarded European sales of Seán Devlin’s Asog, with Los Angeles-based finance, production and sales outfit Est Studios representing rights in the rest of the world.
The film premiered in Tribeca, and will also play at BFI London Film Festival. It was part of this year’s Cannes Docs-in-Progress, and blends road movie with elements of documentary. A typhoon survivor, a newly jobless schoolteacher and non-binary Filipino comedian embark on a road trip to a drag pageant.
- 10/3/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The Grand Jury winners of the 41st Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival, presented by Genesis Motor and Warner Bros. Discovery, have been announced, with “Something You Said Last Night” and “Anhell69” winning the top awards for North American Narrative Feature and Documentary Feature. Select award winners will be available on the Outfest Los Angeles’ virtual platform through Sunday, after which Audience Award winners will be announced.
The Paul D. Lerner and Stephen Reis Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary Feature, now in Year 2 thanks to a generous donation from Lerner and Reis to the Outfest Empathy Fund, will see the awarded filmmaker, “Anhell69,” director Theo Montoya, receive a $5,000 prize.
The festival opened with Aitch Alberto’s “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” and closed with Sav Rodger’s “Chasing Chasing Amy.” For the first time in Outfest’s LGBTQ+ Summer Film Festival history, both the opening...
The Paul D. Lerner and Stephen Reis Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary Feature, now in Year 2 thanks to a generous donation from Lerner and Reis to the Outfest Empathy Fund, will see the awarded filmmaker, “Anhell69,” director Theo Montoya, receive a $5,000 prize.
The festival opened with Aitch Alberto’s “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” and closed with Sav Rodger’s “Chasing Chasing Amy.” For the first time in Outfest’s LGBTQ+ Summer Film Festival history, both the opening...
- 7/24/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Filming fishermen working on dark Gloucestershire waterways at night is challenging enough technically for most cinematographers. But this feat, brought off with panache by “The Elvermen” Dp Anna MacDonald – competing in the Camerimage Documentary Shorts section this year with an atmospheric account of obsessive amateur eel hunters – was just half the battle.
A substantial additional challenge, says MacDonald, is that the eels in question, a catch once prized at more than their weight in gold, are tiny, nearly transparent offspring “like the size of a glass noodle.”
They’ve been known as elvers for millennia and just about everything about them is mysterious – even how the spawn of the European eel ended up in Britain’s West Country is a tale for the ages (and they apparently have a different name from eels because the young of the species are so distinct in appearance from adults that it was believed...
A substantial additional challenge, says MacDonald, is that the eels in question, a catch once prized at more than their weight in gold, are tiny, nearly transparent offspring “like the size of a glass noodle.”
They’ve been known as elvers for millennia and just about everything about them is mysterious – even how the spawn of the European eel ended up in Britain’s West Country is a tale for the ages (and they apparently have a different name from eels because the young of the species are so distinct in appearance from adults that it was believed...
- 11/3/2021
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
EA Games
The wonderful people of the interweb tend to go thermonuclear when someone calls one of their favorite games overrated. It’s Fanboy’s Third Law of Trolling. You fall madly in love with Generic Terrorist Shooter 3, someone tells you that Army Propaganda Tool 2 is vastly superior, and you lose your mind. We’ve covered these theoretically overrated games a number of times in various categories, and it always leads to the kind of flame wars usually associated with less important things like politics and religion. Underrated games, on the other hand, are easier to talk about openly without sparking World War 3.
But just because it’s a conversation that doesn’t cause burst blood vessels in your brain doesn’t mean it’s not worth discussing. Instead of bashing the games you love with an unhealthy passion, here we’re taking a compassionate look at titles which just...
The wonderful people of the interweb tend to go thermonuclear when someone calls one of their favorite games overrated. It’s Fanboy’s Third Law of Trolling. You fall madly in love with Generic Terrorist Shooter 3, someone tells you that Army Propaganda Tool 2 is vastly superior, and you lose your mind. We’ve covered these theoretically overrated games a number of times in various categories, and it always leads to the kind of flame wars usually associated with less important things like politics and religion. Underrated games, on the other hand, are easier to talk about openly without sparking World War 3.
But just because it’s a conversation that doesn’t cause burst blood vessels in your brain doesn’t mean it’s not worth discussing. Instead of bashing the games you love with an unhealthy passion, here we’re taking a compassionate look at titles which just...
- 8/29/2014
- by Henry Dowling
- Obsessed with Film
Chicago – Gamers have fought so many battles of World War II from so many different viewpoints that I have to admit that I approached the late-year release of EA and Pandemic’s “The Saboteur” with more than a little bit of trepidation. Much to my surprise, “The Saboteur” is a clever, enjoyable take on an arguably over-done genre that stumbles with some gameplay elements but provides more than enough entertainment to warrant a look.
Video Game Rating: 3.5/5.0
As 2009 drew to a close and thousands of gamers unwrapped copies of the widely-acknowledged games of the year (“Uncharted 2,” “The Saboteur,” “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2”), a few noteworthy titles were likely to fall through the cracks. One such release is the sometimes excellent “The Saboteur,” an open-world action/adventure about the resistance effort to the Nazi invasion of France that’s reportedly based on a true story.
The Saboteur
Photo credit: EA...
Video Game Rating: 3.5/5.0
As 2009 drew to a close and thousands of gamers unwrapped copies of the widely-acknowledged games of the year (“Uncharted 2,” “The Saboteur,” “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2”), a few noteworthy titles were likely to fall through the cracks. One such release is the sometimes excellent “The Saboteur,” an open-world action/adventure about the resistance effort to the Nazi invasion of France that’s reportedly based on a true story.
The Saboteur
Photo credit: EA...
- 1/4/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Saboteur is a game of nation-building, in the modern sense of the term: You rebuild a country by blowing it up. The hero in this effort is Sean Devlin, a hardscrabble Irish auto racer who’s inexplicably talented at sneaking around with sticks of dynamite. Devlin is enlisted to ply his trade against the Nazi forces in occupied Paris, and as the anti-aircraft towers and propaganda speakers fall, the resistance coalesces. That addictive dynamic of reconstruction by destruction is what makes this open-world game such a pleasing swan song from the recently shuttered Pandemic Studios. The game’s rendering ...
- 12/14/2009
- avclub.com
Releasing mere weeks after the closure of its development house, "The Saboteur" is a literal post-mortem for Pandemic Studios. And while it lacks the polish of open world games like "Assassin's Creed 2" and "Infamous," its unique art style and sandbox-style gameplay make it one of the developer's strongest releases.
The Basics
"The Saboteur" is set in and around Paris during World War II. You take on the role of Sean Devlin, a car mechanic turned race car driver turned freedom fighter. After a nasty run in with the Nazis, Sean has a big time chip on his shoulder, and takes on the mission of bringing down the Third Reich, piece by piece. All of this goes down in an open world, GTA-esque landscape which gives players the freedom to explore and explode at will.
The Highs
A New Look For World War II
Contrary to games like "Call of Duty:...
The Basics
"The Saboteur" is set in and around Paris during World War II. You take on the role of Sean Devlin, a car mechanic turned race car driver turned freedom fighter. After a nasty run in with the Nazis, Sean has a big time chip on his shoulder, and takes on the mission of bringing down the Third Reich, piece by piece. All of this goes down in an open world, GTA-esque landscape which gives players the freedom to explore and explode at will.
The Highs
A New Look For World War II
Contrary to games like "Call of Duty:...
- 12/3/2009
- by Russ Frushtick
- MTV Multiplayer
Tom French, Lead Designer for 'The Saboteur,' discusses EA's upcoming sandbox action-adventure game. The Saboteur is inspired by a true story. The game stars Sean Devlin, a street-tough Irish race car driver seeking personal redemption in the first open-world action game set in Nazi-occupied Europe. With the help of the French Resistance, British intelligence, an arsenal of weaponry, and your own street smarts and brawn, you must exact revenge on those who aimed to destroy your life. From derailing trains and blowing up zeppelins to scaling the Eiffel Tower and more, this action hero uses a broad range of weapons, explosives and vehicles to get the job done in the name of vengeance. [flashvideo filename="videos/TheSaboteur.flv" width="490" height="275" /] Watch the interview with Tom French. Key Features - Live the resistance in an open-world Paris – Fight and sabotage your way through a uniquely stylized open-world 1940s Paris – from the top of the Eiffel Tower, ...
- 9/24/2009
- by Michele Alfonso
- BuzzFocus.com
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