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Liz Shackleton
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Asia-based film and TV industry analyst. Founder & editor of Streamlined: www.streamlined.news
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We need to talk about project markets...

In the first part of a round-up of Asia's autumn film markets circuit, Streamlined asks if we're heading into an era of too much supply and not enough demand.

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Autumn Markets Part One: Are We Heading Into An Era Of Over-Supply?
We need to talk about project markets, or at least reassess what is happening at these events, which undoubtedly have an important role to play, but perhaps are becoming too much of a good thing.   St...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Bank Thiti To Star In Thai Heist Comedy ‘Esarn Seven’ Produced By TSixtySix Studio & Kliff Studios 

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Bank Thiti To Star In Thai Heist Comedy ‘Esarn Seven’ Produced By TSixtySix Studio & Kliff Studios
TsixtySix, the Thai production arm of The White Lotus S3 co-producer Indochina Productions, is producing with Kliff Studios and other Thai partners.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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I'm late to this as took a much needed break post TIFF & TCCF, but here's the full line-up of JAFF's 20th anniversary edition, taking place in Yogyakarta from November 29-December 6 (and also hosting the second edition of JAFF Market).

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JAFF To Open With ‘Opera Jawa’; Unveils Competition & Special Programmes
The festival, which is taking place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (Nov 29-Dec 6), is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a special programme.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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It’s so sad to see British media being destroyed by the same right-wing, self-serving forces that have destroyed US media & democracy. The BBC is one of the few media British media outlets not owned by tax-avoiding billionaires.

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‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
The whirlwind that started when Deborah Turness came under attack at a board meeting is part of a wider political story, some say
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November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Waves Film Bazaar project selection line-up - see Streamlined for deets on all the project market line-ups in Asia and Middle East until the end of the year..

Film Bazaar Co-production Market 2025: Full Line-Up
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Film Bazaar Co-production Market 2025: Full Line-Up
Waves Film Bazaar has selected 22 narrative projects and five documentaries for this year’s Co-production Market.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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TAICCA & Mirror Fiction Invest $10M In Taiwan Production Outfit Mirror Entertainment

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TAICCA & Mirror Fiction Invest $10M In Taiwan Production Outfit Mirror Entertainment
New production outfit is developing ten films and TV series over the next five years, several of which will be produced with international partners.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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TCCF: ‘My Camera, My Gun’ Wins TAICCA X CNC Award; ‘Do You Still Love Me’ Sweeps Series Category

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TCCF: ‘My Camera, My Gun’ Wins TAICCA X CNC Award; ‘Do You Still Love Me’ Sweeps Series Category
Romance series Do You Still Love Me scooped five awards, while other multiple winners included Never The Bride, Mother Tongue and Naked In Glendale.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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TAICCA CEO Erica Wang On TCCF Mission, Funding Strategies & Taiwan’s Expanding Role In Tech-Driven Content

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TAICCA CEO Erica Wang On TCCF Mission, Funding Strategies & Taiwan’s Expanding Role In Tech-Driven Content
Taiwan government-backed agency aims to scale up Taiwanese content industries through events like TCCF and a market-oriented approach.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Unveils Six-Title Slate Headed By Taiwan-Japan Co-Pro ‘Arrested Memory’ Starring Ethan Juan

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Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Unveils Six-Title Slate Headed By Taiwan-Japan Co-Pro ‘Arrested Memory’ Starring Ethan Juan
Slate also includes flagship drama series The Fame; Taiwan-Korea romance film The Photo From 1977 and action film Dangling, starring Austin Lin.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Two things I learned today: Thailand is a market where people like to pay for content; and it's also a market where Chinese dramas are more popular than K-dramas. Of course, local content (including BL & GL, but also other genres) is also very popular..

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Thailand Emerges As Biggest Premium SVOD Market In Southeast Asia – MPA Research
Thai consumers are spending more on streaming than their Southeast Asian neighbors, according to research from Media Partners Asia shared at TCCF.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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CJ ENM Hong Kong Partners With Taiwan’s Far EasTone Telecom & TVBS On $30M Fund To Invest In Mandarin-language Content

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CJ ENM Hong Kong Partners With Taiwan’s Far EasTone Telecom & TVBS On $30M Fund To Invest In Mandarin-language Content
Korea’s CJ ENM HK is partnering with Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecom, broadcaster TVBS & TAICCA to launch a $30M fund to invest in Mandarin content.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Purin Film Fund's latest funding round has awarded grants to projects from Le Bao, Alyx Ayn Arumpac, Don Joseph Raphael Eblahan and Chris Chong Chan Fui.

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Purin Film Fund Autumn 2025: Funding News
Bangkok-based Purin Film Fund has selected four projects for its autumn 2025 funding round, including two fiction and one documentary project for production support and one documentary project for pos...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Japan’s Nippon TV & TBS Holdings Reveal Global Expansion Strategies

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Japan’s Nippon TV & TBS Holdings Reveal Global Expansion Strategies
Both of these major Japanese broadcasters now have a production studio dedicated to developing & producing content aimed at international audiences.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Sony’s Shebnem Askin Shares Int’l Production Insights; Says Seeking Action Comedies & Live-Action Remakes Of Japanese Anime  

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Sony’s Shebnem Askin Shares Int’l Production Insights; Says Seeking Action Comedies & Live-Action Remakes Of Japanese Anime
Shebnem Askin, Head of Sony Pictures Int'l Productions, shared insights into the studio’s commissioning & acquisition process during a TIFFCOM keynote.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Japan’s Animation Industry Grows 15% To Record $25BN Driven By Overseas Sales 

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Japan’s Animation Industry Grows 15% To Record $25BN Driven By Overseas Sales
Overseas revenue outstripped Japanese domestic revenue for the first time in 2020 and in 2024 accounted for 56% of the total.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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‘One Piece’ Executive Producer Tetsu Fujimura On Japanese IP: “Most Major Properties Are Already Secured But The Next Tier Has Huge Potential” 
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‘One Piece’ Executive Producer Tetsu Fujimura On Japanese IP: “Most Major Properties Are Already Secured But The Next Tier Has Huge Potential”
Filosophia CEO & One Piece exec producer Tetsu Fujimura mapped out the massive growth of Japanese IP in a TIFFCOM keynote.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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TIFF LOUNGE: Peter Ho-Sun Chan Talks Asia Co-Production, Changing Chinese Film Biz & Timeline For ‘She Has No Name’ Part Two

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Peter Ho-Sun Chan Talks Asia Co-Production, Changing Chinese Film Biz & Timeline For ‘She Has No Name’ Part Two
Hong Kong filmmaker delivered a masterclass at TIFF that also covered the many changes in the Chinese & Hong Kong film biz over the past 35 years.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Carlo Chatrian Talks Expanding Role Of Film Festivals & Discovering Ryusuke Hamaguchi At Tokyo Fest

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Carlo Chatrian Talks Expanding Role Of Film Festivals & Discovering Ryusuke Hamaguchi At Tokyo Fest
Chatrian, who is heading the Tokyo film festival competition jury, talked about the role festivals play in discovery and distribution.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Tokyo Film Festival Opens With Stars & Pledges Of Government Support; Japan To Be Country Of Honour At Next Year’s Cannes Marche

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Tokyo Film Festival Opens With Stars & Pledges Of Government Support; Japan To Be Country Of Honor At Next Year’s Cannes Marche
Stars including Fan Bingbing, Juliette Binoche & Sayuri Yoshinaga graced the red carpet, while politicians talked government support & Cannes honor.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Jason Tan Liwag gives us the lowdown on this year's QCinema International Film Festival line-up, including the four competition sections: Asian Next Wave, New Horizons, RainbowQC and QCShorts International.

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QCinema Unveils Competition Sections; Alice Winocour’s ‘Couture’ Set As Opening Film
Asian Next Wave competition will screen nine films, including four award-winning titles making their Southeast Asian premiere.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Tatino Films Launches First Cut Lab Paris For International Projects

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Tatino Films Launches First Cut Lab Paris For International Projects
The Paris-based lab is open to feature-length films at the editing stage from anywhere in the world.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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El Gouna Film Festival handed out Golden Stars to films including Colombia's A Poet, Chinese-language documentary Always and Philippines short film Agapito.

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El Gouna Golden Stars Awarded To 'A Poet', 'Always' & 'Agapito'
Audience awards went to Sepideh Farsi’s documentary 'Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk' and Egyptian filmmaker Sarah Goher’s 'Happy Birthday'.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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JAFF Market has announced the ten projects selected for JAFF Future Project, along with renewing its partnership with Adelaide Film Festival, following last week's announcement of the IP projects selected for JAFF Content Market.

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JAFF Future Project 2025: Full Line-Up
JAFF Future Project has selected ten projects for its second edition, while JAFF Content Market will present ten pieces of IP to producers, investors and distributors during the three-day event.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Tokyo Gap Financing Market Launches Project Awards & Seminars

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Tokyo Gap Financing Market Launches Project Awards & Seminars
Awards include the Tokyo Projects Award, selected by an industry jury, and the Asian Gen‑Z Award, selected by a committee of Gen-Z film students.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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The latest Streamlined looks at CJ ENM's deal with Warner Bros Discovery; Europe's streaming levies and the end of TV as we know it at MIPCOM.

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Warner & CJ ENM Deal; Lessons From Levies; YouTube At Mipcom
I was hoping to write about my recent trip to China for Pingyao International Film Festival and what I learned there for this edition of Streamlined, but other events need addressing first. Last week,...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM