Silvia Wong

1 day ago | screendaily.com | Silvia Wong

Taiwan arrives at the festival with a drama produced by Palme d’Or winner Sean Baker while the market includes animated features and the directorial debut of The Assassin star Shu Qi. Festival Dir. Shih-Ching TsouTsou’s solo directing debut is produced, edited and co-written by Sean Baker, the US filmmaker who won last year’s Palme d’Or with Anora plus six Oscars.

1 day ago | screendaily.com | Silvia Wong

EXCLUSIVE: Thai director Banjong Pisanthanakun has reunited with star Davika Hoorne for psychological horror Inherit, which GDH 559 is pre-selling at the Cannes market. Davika from Banjong’s 2013 smash hit Pee Mak plays Grandma Woranart, an 80-year-old grandmother who suddenly returns looking like a woman in her 30s after having disappeared for half a century. But her return brings terrifying hauntings to her family, with her 18-year-old granddaughter destined as the next heir to the demon.

1 day ago | screendaily.com | Silvia Wong

EXCLUSIVE: Hong Kong’s Edko Films is launching sales at Cannes of two prequels to the successful Cold War film franchise, both toplining Daniel Wu and Terrance Lau. The prequels, titled Cold War 1994 and Cold War 1995, are produced by Bill Kong and Ivy Ho whose recent titles include A Guilty Conscience and Anita. The first prequel is scheduled for release in the last quarter of 2025 with the second lined up for next year.

2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Silvia Wong

Source: Mokster Films / Deep Sky Object EXCLUSIVE: Singapore’s Mokster Films has acquired worldwide rights to Taiwan’s first rotoscope animated feature Welcome To Dolly’s House, which it will launch at the Cannes market. The film is created and written by artist, curator and filmmaker Seven YCH and directed by Tree Muta (aka Liu Yu-shu) and Rady Fu, with Dennis Wu from Marry My Dead Body and The Tag-Along trilogy as producer.

2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Silvia Wong

Source: Hong Kong Film Awards Association Soi Cheang’s Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In swept the 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA) scoring nine wins including best film, best director and all the technical categories. The big-budget action thriller, which recreated the now demolished Kowloon City in 1980s Hong Kong, scooped prizes for best cinematography, editing, art direction, costume and makeup design, action choreography, sound design and visual effects.