Leaving Virginia (Taiwan, 2020) [SF IndieFest 2021]
Graduating student Big D (Isaac Yang) is on the eve of his 18th birthday and desperate to lose his virginity. When his best friend Xu...
Focus Hong Kong Launches in the UK with Online Event in February 2021
Focus Hong Kong is a new UK film festival dedicated to celebrating the amazing cinema and filmmakers of Hong Kong, from early works to the...
Hope’s Home (USA, 2021) [SF IndieFest 2021]
Hope is about to take her first trip to China since she was an infant. She’s stunned by how little she remembers the place, and...
Roll (Japan, 2020) [SF IndieFest 2021]
It is hard to believe that Roll is a debut feature by a young filmmaker. Daichi Murase has written and directed the film with such...
Body Remember (Japan, 2020) [SF IndieFest 2021]
A trend in recent Japanese indie films is the use of self-reflexive stories that prompt both the characters and the audience to constantly interrogate what...
Call for Abstracts – Edited Volume on Medical Culture in East Asian Cinema and Media
The current COVID-19 global pandemic has inspired renewed attention to the intersection between public health and mass media. With constant media updates of case counts,...
VCinema Call for Contributors
VCinema is currently seeking new writers to expand our team of enthusiastic contributors. Although our primary focus is movies, we are interested in all aspects...
Call for Contributors – A Handbook of Indian Indie Cinema
Each year, a large number of Indian Indie films are released that suffer from lack of viewership even when it comes to their target audience,...
Call for Contributors – Book on Bengali Cinema
Films do not exist in a vacuum: they are almost always conceived produced, distributed and consumed within specific economic and social contexts. Film is now...
Sing Me a Song (France/Germany/Switzerland, 2019)
Sing Me a Song recalls the groundbreaking Up series which followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964 at seven year intervals. That pioneering...