After three days of one-on-one meetings within the Asian Project Market, winners were announced at a ceremony in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday evening. The project market is held as part of the Asian Contents & Film Market, which is closely aligned with the Busan International Film Festival. Some 30 film projects were pitched by […]

New York-based Singaporean filmmaker Kirsten Tan is set to direct “Crocodile Rock,” a film that explores the underground lesbian club culture of 1990s Singapore. The project is currently being presented at the Busan Asian Project Market (APM). Tan’s debut feature “Pop Aye” (2017) earned international acclaim including awards at Sundance and Rotterdam. “Crocodile Rock” follows […]

Bangladeshi-Canadian filmmaker Iqbal H. Chowdhury, joint winner of the New Currents competition at the 2023 Busan International Film Festival for “The Wrestler,” has his next film at the festival’s Asian Project Market (APM). Set in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka in the early 2000s, the film will follow a film journalist searching for a controversial B-movie star in […]

Malaysian filmmaker Woo Ming Jin is set to present his English-language debut “The Camford Experiment” at Busan’s Asian Project Market. The social horror film, co-written with producer Gerry Kim, explores themes of Asian identity and racial stereotypes in Western society.  Woo, known for films like “Tiger Factory” and “Stone Turtle,” which won an award at […]

Sri Lankan filmmaker Ilango Ram and producer Hiranya Perera are set to present their upcoming feature “Rabbit Hole” at Busan’s Asian Project Market, aiming to shed light on the persistent social stratification in their country. The project, which explores the lives of Indian Tamils in Sri Lanka’s tea plantations and their role as domestic workers […]

Huma Qureshi (“Gangs of Wasseypur”) stars in “Bayaan,” (The Testimony) a police drama that has wrapped shooting and is participating in Busan’s Asian Project Market. The film is directed by Bikas Ranjan Mishra, whose debut feature “Chauranga” won accolades at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and the Mumbai Film Festival. It is a […]

Indian animator Triparna Maiti’s feature project “Mangal – The Holy Beast” has been selected for the Busan Asian Project Market. The film project spotlights the plight of captive elephants through animation. It follows the life of Mangal, an elephant calf captured from the wild and forced into circus life, logging work, and eventually becoming a […]