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Young Filmmakers Shine at Shrewsbury Bangkok Festival
Published on 05/06/2024
» Shrewsbury International School Bangkok, Riverside, recently hosted their second annual Junior Film Festival, which showcased the exemplary filmmaking talents of Year 4, 5 and 6 students. All Shrewsbury schools value and use the "whole self" curriculum, and filmmaking serves as a way to combine traditional educational lessons with creativity and skills that are best developed outside of the classroom.
Reforming Thai cinema
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 03/06/2024
» It has been eight months since the National Soft Power Strategy Committee was established under the government of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. Meanwhile, the Thai film industry, supported by the Thailand Creative Culture Agency, has not seen any significant changes.
Love, beauty, violence
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/05/2024
» Last year, the world embraced Barbie and Poor Things, two outstanding films that tapped into the state of female consciousness in the 21st century. At the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which ends tomorrow, women-driven stories of all stripes are pushed further up (or down) the emotional spectrum. A noticeable number of titles premiering at the influential festival feature female protagonists in varying states of joy and distress -- and to varying results. Powerful acting by female talent also injects life and spirit into those stories, hailing from all corners of the Earth.
Cannes 2024 highlights
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 14/05/2024
» From Francis Ford Coppola's new epic to a Taiwanese drama starring a Thai actor and a Pol Pot drama, we pick hot titles from the French film festival that kicks off today.
The space between death and rebirth
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 11/05/2024
» Renowned Bhutanese filmmaker Khyentse Norbu, celebrated for his seminal works such as "The Cup" and "Travellers And Magicians”, will release his latest cinematic masterpiece, "Pig At The Crossing”, crafted in collaboration with a cadre of young Bhutanese filmmakers.