WorldPingNew Nordic Films, the Norwegian International Film Festival’s industry confab in Haugesund, has announced the program for its first ever French Focus, set up to foster partnerships and co-productions between France and the Nordic countries.
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WorldPingSingapore has never really had a wuxia feature film – though the genre was a fixture of local television in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when a wave of wuxia serials cast actors like Li Nanxing and Zhu Ming.
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WorldPingIndia’s Yash Raj Films (YRF) has launched Raah Records, a new record label and artist incubator built to discover and develop original Indian music talent outside of film soundtracks.
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WorldPingAcclaimed Bengali cinema actor Parno Mittra is stepping behind the camera as a producer for the first time with “The Music Teacher,” a British-Indian short film starring Raima Sen that begins principal photography this month in Kolkata.
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WorldPingNikias Chryssos’ English-language horror film “Bloody Tennis” has secured several international deals, including to Shudder in the U.S., ahead of its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.
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WorldPingBitters End has set North American distribution for “All the Lovers in the Night,” Yukiko Sode’s Yukino Kishii and Tadanobu Asano starrer that premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes earlier this year. Several Futures has acquired the film for the U.S.
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WorldPingThe Primary School, offering tuition-free education to low-income families, has officially closed, impacting around 540 children who depended on its support.
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