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ShoutOUT! ''Sunday'' and ''Lady E’s Wedding Revenge Plan'' take home top...
SundaySunday which depicts a young woman with a full body rash, driven to violence during a forbidden encounter with her sister’s boyfriend, emerged as one of the top favourites at the 6th National...
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Short Film Review: Sanctissima (2015)
Warning: This article contains spoilers and discussion of abortion and rapeWatching Sanctissima by Kenneth Lim Dagatan left me feeling rather conflicted. While there were several instances of inspired...
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Short Film Review: Happy Birthday, Great Grandma (2019)
Paphawee Jinnasith’s Happy Birthday, Great Grandma reminds me of Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, but not really. Both expound on the family relation between a young adult female and her grandmother who are...
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ShoutOUT! Objectifs Short Film Incubator for Southeast Asian Filmmakers
Grow that script of yours! The Objectifs Short Film Incubator is a new initiative focused on developing short film scripts by Southeast Asian filmmakers, presented by Objectifs Centre for Photography...
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Singapore flings on your small screen
Still from documentary series 'Wild City'One of the things we struggled with in reviewing films in the past was that we were writing a review of a film no one knew how to get their hands on. Something...
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Short Film Review: Digital Funeral: Beta Version (2020)
In recent years, the Thai filmmaker Sorayos Prapapan has developed a certain interesting meta-textual lexicon in his short works. Starting from 2014’s Auntie Maam Has Never Had a Passport, when a...
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Short Film Review: Stay Awake, Be Ready | Hãy Tỉnh Thức Và Sẵn Sàng (2019)
Phạm Thiên Ân’s Stay Awake, Be Ready is many things: a bold technical marvel composed of a single moving shot, a visceral glimpse at Vietnam’s nightlife, and a surprisingly affecting depiction of the...
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A horror outsider who gets horror right: Interview with Emir Ezwan on 'ROH'
Emir Ezwan’s ROH is the first Malaysian film to premiere in the cinemas in the time of the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO). It is also the second film to come out of KUMAN Pictures that prides...
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ShoutOUT! Docs by the Sea Webinars on Co-Production
Docs By The Sea will be hosting a few upcoming webinars on the topic of co-productions. Photo courtesy of Docs by the Sea FacebookDocs By The Sea will be hosting a few upcoming webinars on the topic of...
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ShoutOUT! Submit your film projects to the Purin Pictures Fall Season Funding...
'I Am Walking' - project by Chan Sze-WeiAttention all filmmakers, another source of funding is now open for applications – this is the Purin Pictures' Production & Post-production funding programs...
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ShoutOUT! SeaShorts Festival all ready to stream this September
SeaShorts and Next New Wave Nominee - PeonThe 4thedition of the SeaShorts Film Festival, to be held from 12th to 20th September this year will be the most accessible version of the annual event yet. In...
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Short Film Review: Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on the Still Trembling Berlin...
“The essence of Camp,” writes Susan Sontag, “is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.” Not that in Sontag’s conception ‘camp’ is a synonym for ‘kitsch’ or even ‘flamboyance’: it...
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Film Review: The Kingmaker (2019)
In what is one of the sharpest and most lucid moments of The Kingmaker (2019), former Filipino First Lady and shoe collector extraordinaire Imelda Marcos states, “Perception is real, and the truth is...
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Short Film Review: Monkey See (2019)
Monkey See (2019) is a 3-minute short film by Atulit Kwatra and Khomthong Rungsawang, which was selected as part of the Minikino Film Week 2020 under its Love Wins section. The film originated as part...
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Short Film Review: Golden Frames in the Closet (2019)
Filmmaker Putri Sarah Amelia likes to toy with suspense, to sometimes confusing results but at least with an appeasing payoff at the end of it all. The air of suspense and curiosity in the film is...
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Short Film Review: A Fallen Fruit (2019)
Amit Dubey’s A Fallen Fruit is both a meditation on loss and the Buddhist concept of a life cycle as the supreme order of things, as well as a kind of visual hypnosis with its ponderous shots of life...
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Film Review: Mekong 2030 (2020)
The world is not short on Indochinese iconography. From 19th century fetishism about the landscape as evidenced in the writing of Rudyard Kipling, to the more contemporary Lonely Planet bucket list...
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Short Film Review: Tilik (2018)
An Indonesian short film, Tilik has been watched 17 million times on YouTube since it was first uploaded on August 17, 2020. Supported by the Yogyakarta government, it is a phenomenon that the...
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Short Film Review: Dear Daddy (2019)
Director Patar Simatupang’s father was a long absent figure in his childhood. Meeting him again at 8 years of age, Simatupang called him “brother”.Dear Daddy (Kepada Bapak di Rumah) records...
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Short Film Review: Here, Here (2019)
“Where are your wounds?”“Here, here…”How does one reconcile change and continuity in both their social and historical lives? Blurring the lines between these distinctions, Joanne Cesario’s Here, Here...
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