BLACKBIRD LANDS IN OSAKA

The Osaka Asian Movie Pageant (March 1-10, 2024) has added eight extra titles to its line-up, together with the award-winning Georgian drama “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry,” which is able to play in competitors.
Elene Naveriani’s “Blackbird,” a few middle-aged lady’s relationship choice, has had huge competition play in Europe (Gijon, Cottbus, Sarajevo, New Horizons) and earned a number of prizes for lead actor Eka Chavleishvili.

Different additions are Cambodian directing duo Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea’s “Tenement”; the world premiere of Hong Kong director Ricky Ko’s “Out of the Shadow”; “Supposed,” by Thanakorn Pongsuwan and “Demise Whisperer,” by Taweewat Wantha, which broaden the competition’s collection of Thai movies to eight; and “The Winter of 1905,” a 1981 movie by Hong Kong director Yu Wei-Cheng, which joins the Taiwan: Motion pictures on the Transfer 2024 particular part.

Different revival inclusions are: the 4K restored director’s minimize of Patrick Tam’s 1982 Hong Kong film “Nomad” and “240 Hours in One Day,” a 30-minute piece by Teshigahara Hiroshi from 1970.
The competition expects to finish its lineup with bulletins of the opening and shutting movies on Feb. 2.

VESOUL LINEUP

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the feted Iranian director, has been set because the president of the jury on the upcoming version of the Vesoul Worldwide Pageant of Asian Cinema (Feb. 6-13, 2024) in France. Fellow jurors embody Taiwanese director Zero Chou, Iranian actor Fatemed Motamed-Arya and Japanese star Shogen.

Within the narrative function part, the competitors titles embody “All Ears,” by China’s Liu Jiayin; “The Snow Leopard, by the late Pema Tseden; “Work to Do,” by Korea’s Park Hong-jun; “The Spark,” by Rajesh S. Jala from India; “Maria,” by Iran’s Mahdi Asghari Azghadi; “Scream,” by Kazakhstan’s Kenzhebek Shaikakov; “Sunday,” by Shokir Kholikov from Uzbekistan; “Paradise,” from Sri Lanka, directed by Prasanna Vithanage; and “Solids by the Seashore,” by Thailand’s Patiparn Boontarig.

HEY FUZZY YELLOW

Cookbook Media has been appointed as North American content material distributor for the youngsters’ sequence “Hey Fuzzy Yellow,” by Toon2Tango, a youngsters and household leisure enterprise headed by tv and film trade consultants Ulli Stoef and Jo Daris. Claudia Scott-Hansen, Cookbook Media’s co-founder, will spearhead efforts to construct broadcast partnerships in North America for the brand new present, which is a co-production by Toon2Tango, Curiosity Ink Media, Treehouse Republic and Lodge Hungaria Animation. It’s at present in manufacturing, with the primary 24 episodes set for 2024 and full sequence supply in March 2025.

AVIA ADAPTS

The Asia Video Trade Affiliation (AVIA) has Phil Hardman, senior VP and GM of BBC Studios Asia, as its new chairman following the resignation of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Clément Schwebig, who’s relocating to Europe. Additionally becoming a member of the AVIA board are Emily Yri, VP of worldwide advertising at PubMatic, and Shonali Bedi, head of technique, partnerships & insights, APAC, Warner Bros. Discovery.
 
Louis Boswell, CEO of AVIA, mentioned, “Schwebig took over in the midst of a pandemic and helped steer the affiliation to security by way of these troublesome instances.  He was a robust and vocal advocate for the trade. The board and I at the moment are trying ahead to working with Hardman to assist information AVIA by way of what are clearly difficult instances.”

Hardman mentioned, “AVIA stands on the intersection of the varied challenges and alternatives within the media trade throughout Asia bringing a lot wanted perception, thought management and regulatory & anti-piracy initiatives that profit its members.

The group famous that ladies now account for 4 of its 12 board members.