FEATURES
20 November 2023
Rights holders/distributors talk about this year’s most significant trends in Asia
Demand for Asian content is on the rise across the region, distributors have told ContentAsia ahead of this year’s ATF market in December.
20 November 2023
Media execs with Asian businesses share their biggest business hope for 2024
“To broaden the distribution of Thai dramas to additional countries, thereby strengthening Thailand’s soft power on a global scale.”
14 November 2023
Years after her best friend Chun died on a mountain in Nepal during a trekking trip with boyfriend Yueh, director Lo Yi-shan returns to the scene to honour the promise Chun and Yueh made while trapped on a ledge. Chun died three days before rescue teams reached them.
6 November 2023
One of the first things "Fast & Furious" star Sung Kang says about his new TV show, marketed as a “multi-country car culture series”, is that it’s not about cars.
11 October 2023
Netflix’s "Cigarette Girl" ("Gadis Kretek") is an epic series that is as sprawling & ambitious as the hopes & dreams it carries for Indonesia’s filmmakers. Co-director Kamila Andini talks about a show she had on her wish list for more than a decade.
11 October 2023
Netflix continues to scale up in Southeast Asia, adding Indonesian director Kamila Andini’s TV series, Cigarette Girl, which premieres on 2 November, to Sitisiri (Dome) Mongkolsiri’s Hunger – the #1 film on the global non-English movie top 10 earlier this year – and Timo Tjahjanto’s 2022 chart