UK-based streaming service FilmDoo is expanding its line-up with a focus on Southeast Asian cinema, including titles such as banned documentary Boundary and Tom Waller’s The Last Executioner [pictured].
Starting tomorrow (June 3), the platform (www.filmdoo.com/southeastasia) will stream 14 Southeast Asian films - 11 globally and three exclusive to Thailand - many of which have not been previously distributed on home video.
Nontawat Numbenchapol’s Boundary, set along the troubled Thailand-Cambodia border, premiered at Berlin in 2013, while The Last Executioner won best director and best actor at this year’s Dhaka International Film Festival.
FilmDoo’s Southeast Asian line-up also includes Woo Ming Jin’s The Second Life Of Thieves, Rooth Tang’s Sway and Tongpong Chantarangkul’s I Carried You Home, which won best actress and best cinematography at Thailand’s National Film Association Awards.
“The future of cinema is about innovating distribution, opening up channels for new ideas and voices to be heard. I’m grateful...
Starting tomorrow (June 3), the platform (www.filmdoo.com/southeastasia) will stream 14 Southeast Asian films - 11 globally and three exclusive to Thailand - many of which have not been previously distributed on home video.
Nontawat Numbenchapol’s Boundary, set along the troubled Thailand-Cambodia border, premiered at Berlin in 2013, while The Last Executioner won best director and best actor at this year’s Dhaka International Film Festival.
FilmDoo’s Southeast Asian line-up also includes Woo Ming Jin’s The Second Life Of Thieves, Rooth Tang’s Sway and Tongpong Chantarangkul’s I Carried You Home, which won best actress and best cinematography at Thailand’s National Film Association Awards.
“The future of cinema is about innovating distribution, opening up channels for new ideas and voices to be heard. I’m grateful...
- 6/2/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Experts at the Asia Film Summit in Toronto discussed the growth and current issues in Asia and finding the key to cracking the East-West conundrum.
Peter Loehr, CEO of Legendary East, speaking of the Chinese theatrical market said: “This year, China will be the first market outside the Us to ever cross $5bn.
“So it’s the second largest market in the world, but more importantly, it’s expanding at a tremendous, tremendous pace. And I think that expansion will continue for years to come, and I think there are a lot of macro-economic reasons for that.
“If you look at a market like China where there’s now about 22,000 screens for 1.3 billion people versus the Us where there’s 39,000 screens for 300 million plus people, the per-screen average speaks a lot. In China you’re looking at a screen for 68,000 people and in the Us about 8,000. If China ever achieved the screen saturation the Us has, there...
Peter Loehr, CEO of Legendary East, speaking of the Chinese theatrical market said: “This year, China will be the first market outside the Us to ever cross $5bn.
“So it’s the second largest market in the world, but more importantly, it’s expanding at a tremendous, tremendous pace. And I think that expansion will continue for years to come, and I think there are a lot of macro-economic reasons for that.
“If you look at a market like China where there’s now about 22,000 screens for 1.3 billion people versus the Us where there’s 39,000 screens for 300 million plus people, the per-screen average speaks a lot. In China you’re looking at a screen for 68,000 people and in the Us about 8,000. If China ever achieved the screen saturation the Us has, there...
- 9/11/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Experts at the Asia Film Summit in Toronto discussed the growth and current issues in Asia and finding the key to cracking the East-West conundrum.
Peter Loehr, CEO of Legendary East, speaking of the Chinese theatrical market said: “This year, China will be the first market outside the Us to ever cross $5bn.
“So it’s the second largest market in the world, but more importantly, it’s expanding at a tremendous, tremendous pace. And I think that expansion will continue for years to come, and I think there are a lot of macro-economic reasons for that.
“If you look at a market like China where there’s now about 22,000 screens for 1.3 billion people versus the Us where there’s 39,000 screens for 300 million plus people, the per-screen average speaks a lot. In China you’re looking at a screen for 68,000 people and in the Us about 8,000. If China ever achieved the screen saturation the Us has, there...
Peter Loehr, CEO of Legendary East, speaking of the Chinese theatrical market said: “This year, China will be the first market outside the Us to ever cross $5bn.
“So it’s the second largest market in the world, but more importantly, it’s expanding at a tremendous, tremendous pace. And I think that expansion will continue for years to come, and I think there are a lot of macro-economic reasons for that.
“If you look at a market like China where there’s now about 22,000 screens for 1.3 billion people versus the Us where there’s 39,000 screens for 300 million plus people, the per-screen average speaks a lot. In China you’re looking at a screen for 68,000 people and in the Us about 8,000. If China ever achieved the screen saturation the Us has, there...
- 9/11/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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