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Sheron Dayoc: “We don’t have to be starving artists to create compelling and important films”

01/07/2024

by Trung Dam – HIFF Sheron is one of the pioneering voices in regional cinema in the Philippines, an alumnus of the 2011 Sundance Institute, Next Master Tokyo Filmex 2010 and Asian Academy 2008. His first full-length documentary, “The Crescent Rising” won the best documentary at the 2016 Busan International Film Festival. Starting his film […]

2024 film festivals and markets calendar: latest dates

15/05/2024

BY BEN DALTON – SCREEN DAILY SOURCE: FDC / GIORGIO ZUCCHIATTI/LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA / WLADYSLAW (LICENSED UNDER CC BY 2.0) THE CANNES PALME D’OR, ACTOR JACOB ELORDI AT VENICE, THE CN TOWER IN TORONTO Screen is running this regularly updated page with the latest film festival and market dates from across the world. To submit details […]

How The Ho Chi Minh Film Festival Plans To Become Southeast Asia’s Top Event

23/04/2024

By Sara Merican – DEADLINE After wrapping its inaugural edition, the Ho Chi Minh Film Festival (HIFF) has set its sights on becoming the largest film festival in Southeast Asia.  Showcasing more than 100 films over eight days, the festival received over 280,000 visitors, including international guests, over eight days earlier this month (April 6-13). Industry professionals present […]

Mark Lee and Peter Yu win acting awards at Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival

17/04/2024

Maureen Koh – The Straits Times SINGAPORE – Local actor Mark Lee and his family were having dinner with friends at Canopy HortPark on April 13 when he received a WhatsApp message from screenwriter Michelle Chang: “Hi Mark. You won for Best Actor at the Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival.”  His co-star Peter […]

Liza Soberano Stuns as a Jury Member at Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival

16/04/2024

By SEAN CASTELO III – MEGA Liza Soberano further cements her status as a global star as she becomes part of the jury for the Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival. Rising global star Liza Soberano recently added another feather to her cap as she attended the first Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival […]

‘The Gospel Of The Beast’ wins top award at first Ho Chi Minh City film festival, as several titles pulled from lineup

15/04/2024

BY SILVIA WONG – SCREEN DAILY SOURCE: HO CHI MINH CITY IFF JEREMY SEGAY (LEFT) PRESENTS AWARD TO DIRECTOR SHERON DAYOC AT HO CHI MINH CITY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Filipino director Sheron Dayoc’s The Gospel Of The Beast won the top Golden Star Award for best Southeast Asian film at the first Ho Chi Minh City International Film […]

Vietnam’s First Ho Chi Minh City Int’l Film Festival Wraps With Prizes For ‘The Gospel Of The Beast’, ‘Last Shadow At First Light’ 

14/04/2024

By Liz Shackleton – DEADLINE The Gospel Of The Beast, directed by the Philippines’ Sheron Dayoc, picked up the Golden Star Award for Best Southeast Asian Film at the first edition of the Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival (HIFF) in Vietnam.  Nicole Midori Woodford’s Singapore-Japan collaboration, Last Shadow At First Light, won multiple awards in the festival’s Southeast […]

Rising Asian film talent heading to Vietnam’s Autumn Meeting in Ho Chi Minh City

06/04/2024

BY SILVIA WONG – SCREEN DAILY SOURCE: AUTUMN MEETING TRAN THI BICH NGOC The inaugural Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival (HIFF) is to host long-established filmmaking workshop Autumn Meeting and a new script lab headed by filmmakers Charles Nguyen and Phan Gia Nhat Linh. A total of 25 projects will be presented across the […]

Breaking ground: how Ho Chi Minh City’s first international film festival was created

05/04/2024

BY SILVIA WONG – SCREEN DAILY SOURCE: HO CHI MINH CITY IFF (L-R) PHAM MINH TOAN, DO HOA Vietnam’s cinematic landscape will reach a new milestone when the first Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival (HIFF) rolls out the red carpet to welcome filmmakers and guests from April 6-13. The country’s long overdue cinema law […]

First Ho Chi Minh City film festival welcomes Anne Fontaine, Hirokazu Kore-eda

23/03/2024

The inaugural Ho Chi Minh City International Film Festival (HIFF) in Vietnam has unveiled its line-up of about 100 films, including 12 each for the Southeast Asia competition and for the first or second film competition, with directors Anne Fontaine and Hirokazu Kore-eda among its guests.  Scroll down for line-up The Asian premiere of French […]

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