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By Kerrine Goh

31 Jul 2008

Publications on the Asian Film and Audiovisual Markets – Now Available

At the moment where Paris Cinema 2008 closed its programme – with the largest ever showcase of Philippines recent film productions –, the French capital welcomed the first film-symposium of …

By Kerrine Goh

30 May 2008

Spain and Asia – a step backwards, a step forward

It is difficult to establish the connecting parameter between Spain and Asia in cinematography matter. In fact, Asia has long been a great unknown territory to our country, a precious …

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

19 May 2008

Korea: Hub City of Asian Culture Project

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The Hub City of Asian Culture Project, Gwangju has been put forward at the national level since 2004. Gwangju is an important city in Korea, known for its cultural heritage.

By Kerrine Goh

22 Apr 2008

Asian And Bulgarian Cinema – So Far, So Close

In the socialist past (1944 – 1989), Asian films were not quite popular among the audience in Bulgaria and probably the single exception was the works of Akira Kurosawa.

By Mary Ann DeVlieg

19 Apr 2008

IETM and contemporary performing arts in Asia

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IETM is a network committed to contemporary performing arts and to collaborating across national borders. It has 440 member-organisations from over 45 countries.

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

18 Apr 2008

Korean Film Council: diversified support

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No other country in Asia devotes as many resources to promoting its local film industry as Korea. In terms of film policy, it is actually much closer to European countries …

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

18 Apr 2008

Funding the Korean film business

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Large conglomerates, have played a major role in the Korean film industry since the early 1990s. The initial groups of chaebol involved included well-known companies like Samsung and Hyundai.

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

18 Apr 2008

The impressive rise of Korean film

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South Korea has played host to one of the most interesting film industries of the past ten years. While gradual change has been the norm, Korea's film sector has been …

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

15 Apr 2008

UK: performing arts operator reflects

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Alison Andrews, Performing Arts Officer in the Yorkshire region for the Arts Council England.

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

15 Apr 2008

Indonesia: performing arts operator reflects

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Amna Kusumo and three cultural activists founded Kelola, a national non-profit organisation that promotes Indonesian arts, through learning, access to funding and information.

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

15 Apr 2008

Japanese theatre critic reflects

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Kentaro Matsui is a theatre critic and also Programme Director of the Tokyo based Setagaya Public Theatre, Japan.

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

15 Apr 2008

Japan: dance critic reflects

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[caption id="attachment_2811" align="alignright" width="170" caption="Daisuke Muto, Japan "][/caption] Contributed by Ive Stevenheydens 'We are interrelated through history' Daisuke Muto, Japan "I like to interpret the word 'contemporary' literally: a moment …

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

15 Apr 2008

Asia-EU: 4 performing arts operators reflect

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What is 'contemporary' in performing arts today? What at first seems to be a very simple question actually has no straight or univocal answer at all.

By Kerrine Goh

31 Mar 2008

New Focus On Belgian Films

A stronger presence, through a better exposure of the Belgian film industry abroad - this is the immediate result of a series of rewarding initiatives that have been initiated in …

By Kerrine Goh

31 Mar 2008

A cooperation mission to establish the Cambodian Film Commission

This month SEA-Images talks with Franck Priot, the Deputy Director of Film France, who just came back from Cambodia where he worked on a two-week cooperative mission to assist the …