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September 25 to October 11
Deadline: May 31, 2008

Entering its 4th year, Asian Film Academy welcomes the talented young filmmakers in Asia !

Asian Film Academy (AFA) is an educational program where young Asian filmmakers can practice filmmaking and learn philosophy of cinema through the production of short films, workshops, master-classes, lectures and mentoring under the direction of the prominent Asian directors and talented faculty staffs from Korea .

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Germany ~08/02/07– 18/02/07
BERLINALE - FORUM
www.berlinale.de

Hong Kong ~ 20/03/07 - 11/04/07
31st Hong Kong International Film Festival
www.hkiff.org.hk

Argentina ~ 03/04/07 -15/04/07
9th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival
www.bafici.gov.ar

Singapore ~ 18/04/07– 30/04/07
Singapore Intl Film Festival

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A CINEMA DIVIDED: MALAYSIAN FILM IN 2007 by Paolo Bertolin

In 2007, almost everybody in the Malaysian film industry had something to rejoice about. But a big divide still exists in the country's movie world. On one side, there's the mainstream industry, which shoots films targeted at the domestic market exclusively in Malay language. On the other side, there's the indie scene, made up of filmmakers mostly shooting films on digital & in Chinese, whose works have acquired some prestige at international film festivals recently. This clear-cut separation mirrors the tense undercurrents that lie beneath Malaysian society as a whole.

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