EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired worldwide rights to Family Squares—the comedy formerly titled Shoot the Rooster—from Unbound Media.
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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefQueer and transgender communities in Singapore are – and remain – marginalized by a prevailingly conservative and paternalistic culture. But that does not mean that they must stay silent or remain unseen.Film and theater director, producer and activist Glen Goei and film director Quen Wong are behind “Some Women,” an autobiographical documentary film by and about Wong, a trans-gender Singaporean woman.
EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired worldwide rights to Family Squares—the comedy formerly titled Shoot the Rooster—from Unbound Media.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSingapore-based 108 Media has acquired all the assets of DCD Media Plc, a U.K.-based TV distribution and production group.DCD is listed on London’s AIM stock market and the deal values it at $6.3m (£4.7m).
WHAM. “That was like family to us because when you are with the troop for so long you are family.”The Boy Scouts of America have accepted girls into its Scouting program since 2019, renaming the program for youth ages 11-17 as “Scouts BSA.” However, under the organization’s guidelines, boys and girls cannot be in the same troop after they reach middle school age.
Palm Springs City Councilwoman Lisa Middleton will be sworn-in as mayor Thursday, making Middleton the first out transgender mayor in California and just the third out transgender mayor in U.S. history.
A trans athlete is setting records in the pool in her first season with the University of Pennsylvania’s women swimming team.Earlier this month, Lia Thomas won three events at the Zippy Invitational at the University of Akron, setting pool, program and meet records.
Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider has opened up about her experience coming out as transgender — and why William Shakespeare helped her come to terms with her gender identity.Schneider has, as of writing, won 13 games in a row and amassed more than $536,000 in winnings.In addition to becoming the first openly transgender player to qualify for Jeopardy!‘s Tournament of Champions, Schneider is also moving up the rankings of all-time Jeopardy! greats, placing in the top 10 for consecutive games won,
Richard Kuipers Promising ingredients for a juicy murder mystery are spoiled by weak plotting and anemic drama in “Precious Is the Night.” Set among Singapore’s wealthy elite and their household servants in 1969, this plodding tale about a randy doctor involved with an unhappily married socialite and her two housemaids is impeccably decorated and handsomely photographed but fails to produce much tension or intrigue.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIranian first film “Hit The Road,” directed by Panah Panahi, was named the winner of the Silver Screen Award for best film. The prizes were announced on the final Saturday of the Singapore International Film Festival.Best Film“Hit The Road” dir.
KCAU9. “It really upset me,” the teen told Des Moines-based CBS affiliate KCCI in a separate interview.
Aziz Ansari is engaged, according to Page Six. The 38-year-old actor and comedian reportedly revealed that he got engaged to his girlfriend, Danish forensic data scientist Serena Skov Campbell, during a surprise stand-up set at the Comedy Cellar in New York City on Wednesday night (December 1).
Naman Ramachandran The online edition of the Singapore Comic Con lasts nearly a month (Dec. 3, 2021 – Jan.
Naman Ramachandran Acclaimed Germany based Indonesian filmmaker Monica Vanesa Tedja is preparing for her feature directorial project “Dear Family,” selected at the Southeast Asia Film Lab, which is part of the Singapore Media Festival.Tedja got hooked on the medium watching her father film family vacations with his handycam when she was seven.
Naman Ramachandran Diverse aspects of the human condition are key drivers of the projects from Vietnam selected at the Southeast Asia Film Lab, which is part of the Singapore Media Festival.Linh Dan Nguyen Phan went to film school in New York and then went to Vietnam and worked as a cinematographer and also directed a few shorts.
Bo Stehmeier has taken on sole responsibility for ZDF Enterprises-owned producer/distributor Off The Fence (OTF), as OTF Co-CEO Ellen Windemuth transitions to become full-time CEO of its environmental streamer WaterBear Network.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCanadian-owned Beach House Pictures and Singapore producer-distributor Clover Films are receiving support from the Singapore government for their international outreach efforts.The partnerships were supported by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)’s enhanced Capability Partnership Program.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIn a place as crowded, high tech and self-aware as Singapore it can be difficult to find the unique and the unknown.Yet that was the challenge laid down by the Singapore Tourism Board when opening its SG Stories Content Fund for a second funding round.
Jeopardy! since making her first appearance Nov. 17, during Transgender Awareness Week — and she will now make Jeopardy! history by becoming the first openly trans person to compete in the show’s Tournament of Champions.Last night, Nov.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefVeteran film distributor Sreyashii Sengupta has been appointed Southeast Asia CEO for Continental Entertainment, a new Singapore-based film marketing and distribution firm.The firm was registered in January and is controlled by Shibasish Sarkar, former group CEO of Reliance Entertainment and chairman of NASDAQ-listed SPAC company International Media Acquisition Corp (IMAQ).Continental recently handled its first theatrical release, the Singapore distribution of
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCompanies from Taiwan will be out in force at next week’s Asian Television Forum in Singapore.Prominent among them is Portico Media, a company involved in production, sales and distribution of LGBTQ content.
Naman Ramachandran The Philippines is a vibrant filmmaking region in Asia and that brio is underlined by the brace of projects from the country selected at the Southeast Asia Film Lab, which is part of the Singapore Media Festival.Paul Rembert Patindol (sometimes credited as PR Patindol) was training to be a chemist but he came to a point in life where he needed a different kind of magic, and turned to filmmaking instead.His short “Hilom” won the youth jury prize at the Singapore International