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By Kerrine Goh
29 Sep 2011
I have spent many hours visiting hole-in-the-wall vendors of pirated DVDs at Bangalore’s National Market. The collections are vast, the prices are low, and the salesmen, in their pithy analysis …
By Kerrine Goh
13 Aug 2011
The decline of cinema-houses, wherever it happens, is generally associated to the changes in social attitudes. These include the uses of new audiovisual tools, which allow interacting, transforming, and sharing …
25 Jul 2011
Why theater at one of the biggest film festivals in Eastern Europe? What does it bring to the audience in addition to the movie projections?
By Kerrine Goh
09 May 2011
The last decade witnessed an impressive proliferation of human rights film festivals all over the world. The formula of such a festival appeared attractive, both to the audiences and to …
By Ramona David
21 Feb 2011
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East Meets West Fim Forum and Festival project – selected under the Asia-Europe Cultural Partnership Initiative: Film 2010 (AECPI: Film) programme which supported collaborative projects from Asia and Europe.
By Kerrine Goh
10 Feb 2011
In May 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Palme d’or at Cannes for his feature Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives, and thus became the first Thai director to receive …
10 Dec 2010
Romanian cinema began to gain recognition on the world stage after 2005. Interest in Romanian movies grew ever since, and important young film directors begun to make a name for …
By Jérémy Segay
30 Nov 2010
Culture360 discusses with Charlotte Appelgren of Cine-Regio, the European network of regional film funds.
11 Nov 2010
The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the editorial team of www.culture360.org are inviting potential writers from ASEM countries*
By Jérémy Segay
13 Aug 2010
Culture360 discusses with Charlotte Appelgren of Cine-Regio, the European network of regional film funds.
By Kerrine Goh
31 Dec 2009
It has been seventeen years since the European Commission introduced the first MEDIA programme to support the European audiovisual industry.
02 Nov 2009
Europalia, based in Belgium, is a major international arts festival held every two years to celebrate one invited country’s cultural heritage. This year China has been chosen.
By Kerrine Goh
30 Sep 2009
Korean filmmaker Park Kiyong relates a story of having met key “Nouvelle Vague” figure Agnes Varda in Paris three years ago, shortly after she had shot the documentary The Gleaners …
By Kerrine Goh
29 Sep 2009
The Preparatory Action MEDIA International is aimed at strengthening cooperation between the audiovisual industries of “third” countries and those of EU Member States. It also aims to encourage the two-way …
By Kerrine Goh
25 Jun 2009
The European cinema map has one big blank space with a red dot marked out in the middle. The blankness extends throughout the East of the continent, and the red …