75 films from 12 countries, 228 guests of honour and 65 thousand spectators. These are all the numbers of Udine Far East Film Festival 2024. There was an increase of accredited visitors (of 24% over 2023) and the screenings at Udine's 1,200-seat Teatro Nuovo venue were always full, from 9 in the morning to midnight. This says a lot about the growing interest in Asian Cinema.
China and South Korea were the protagonists of the opening Night of Wednesday the 24th of April, with two international premieres: Yolo and Citizen of a Kind, followed by some more South Korean box office sensations, The Roundup: Punishment, 12.12: The Day and horror movie Exhuma. Some very welcome returns of festival friends were Jun Lana, with LGBT comedy of errors Becky & Badette, Norris Wong with the musical The Lyricist Wanna Be, Nick Cheung, in the director's chair, with Peg O'My Heart and Herman Yau with three actioners: Moscow Mission, Raid of...
China and South Korea were the protagonists of the opening Night of Wednesday the 24th of April, with two international premieres: Yolo and Citizen of a Kind, followed by some more South Korean box office sensations, The Roundup: Punishment, 12.12: The Day and horror movie Exhuma. Some very welcome returns of festival friends were Jun Lana, with LGBT comedy of errors Becky & Badette, Norris Wong with the musical The Lyricist Wanna Be, Nick Cheung, in the director's chair, with Peg O'My Heart and Herman Yau with three actioners: Moscow Mission, Raid of...
- 5/6/2024
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
Director Jun Robles Lana is a committed advocate of all queer aspects of life, which he has portrayed in his body of work with contrasting tones of voice, from the theatrical colorfulness of “Die Beautiful” to the dark realism of “Kalel, 15”. “Becky & Badette” sits without a doubt in the former group and, despite not being strictly (no pun intended) a gay story, is as camp as Christmas. A mix of classic comedy of errors and the familiar “high school reunion” genre, peppered with many innuendos and Filipino in-jokes, “Becky & Badette” is pure fun from start to end, and also one of those films you can imagine the cast and crew having a great time while shooting it.
Becky & Badette is screening at UdineFar East Film Festival 2024
Becky (Eugene Domingo) and Badette (Pokwang) are two women in their forties, working as janitors in an all-colourful-girl office and living...
Becky & Badette is screening at UdineFar East Film Festival 2024
Becky (Eugene Domingo) and Badette (Pokwang) are two women in their forties, working as janitors in an all-colourful-girl office and living...
- 4/30/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Even if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it doesn't have to be one. This would be the core message of Perci Intalan's light-weight comedy “I Love You, Beksman” starring Christian Bables as Dali, a young man who despite of all signs that point in direction of his homosexuality, outs himself as straight, to the horror of his family and closest friends.
“I Love You, Beksman” screened at The Slovak Queer Film Festival
Given it's a comedy, no one expects a deep study of human condition or some kind of meaningful message for the audience. The question is though – who exactly is the target group of this strange film with an awkwardly plotted love story? Admittedly, we should be long past the normative thinking, and yet, “I Love You Beksman” sticks to those norms by using clichés to depict the LGBTQ+ community.
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“I Love You, Beksman” screened at The Slovak Queer Film Festival
Given it's a comedy, no one expects a deep study of human condition or some kind of meaningful message for the audience. The question is though – who exactly is the target group of this strange film with an awkwardly plotted love story? Admittedly, we should be long past the normative thinking, and yet, “I Love You Beksman” sticks to those norms by using clichés to depict the LGBTQ+ community.
Check also this...
- 11/30/2023
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
The 17th Slovak Queer Film Festival kicks off on 22 November in Bratislava and the audience can look forward to 7 festival days, until 28 November. This edition introduces the FFi Shorts – International Competition, a competition of short films, presenting 3 Asian works: Adorable by Chung Cheng-hu, Mum, If I Were a Vampire by Deborah Devyn Chuang, and Shoot Your Shot by Mishaal Memon. In the Contemporary Cinema section, don’t miss the flamboyant comedy from the Philippines, I Love You, Beksman by Perci Intalan (2022).
A special programme Queer Hong Kong will open with a digitally restored version of Wong Kar-wai’s classic Happy Together (1997), winner of Best Director at Cannes 1997 and starring Tony Leung a Lesley Cheung, a Hong Kong queer icon. Aside from this film about lovers looking for happiness in Argentina, the section will also include the lesbian cult classic Butterfly (2004) from director Yan Yan Mak, whose brave ideas are still relevant today.
A special programme Queer Hong Kong will open with a digitally restored version of Wong Kar-wai’s classic Happy Together (1997), winner of Best Director at Cannes 1997 and starring Tony Leung a Lesley Cheung, a Hong Kong queer icon. Aside from this film about lovers looking for happiness in Argentina, the section will also include the lesbian cult classic Butterfly (2004) from director Yan Yan Mak, whose brave ideas are still relevant today.
- 11/16/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Filipino filmmaker Jun Robles Lana is making his second appearance at Toronto International Film Festival with Your Mother’s Son, which is receiving its world premiere in the Centrepiece section.
Co-scripted by Lana and Elmer Gatchalian, the film tells the story of a hard-working mother and her delinquent son whose relationship is challenged when she invites one of her students to move into their home, so he can escape his violent father. Initially, it seems the son is suffering from a severe case of Oedipus complex, but as the film progresses, a more shocking tale of abuse of power and sexual dynamics begins to unfold.
Sue Prado (Barber’s Tales) plays the mother, with Kokoy de Santos (Gameboys) playing the son, and Elora Españo and Miggy Jimenez rounding out the cast. Lana, Perci Intalan and Ferdinand Lapuz produced the film through The IdeaFirst Company, Octobertrain Films, Quantum Films and Cineko Productions.
Co-scripted by Lana and Elmer Gatchalian, the film tells the story of a hard-working mother and her delinquent son whose relationship is challenged when she invites one of her students to move into their home, so he can escape his violent father. Initially, it seems the son is suffering from a severe case of Oedipus complex, but as the film progresses, a more shocking tale of abuse of power and sexual dynamics begins to unfold.
Sue Prado (Barber’s Tales) plays the mother, with Kokoy de Santos (Gameboys) playing the son, and Elora Españo and Miggy Jimenez rounding out the cast. Lana, Perci Intalan and Ferdinand Lapuz produced the film through The IdeaFirst Company, Octobertrain Films, Quantum Films and Cineko Productions.
- 9/9/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Gender roles and their appeal to the woke culture are once again thrust into the spotlight with this unconventional love story that breaches the stereotype of the modern man doing macho “man things”. Perci Intalan's latest is a colorful and humorous spectacle, a coming-out party with an unconventional twist that glitters with pure energy.
I Love You, Beksman is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Dali (Christian Bables) is a flamboyant make-up artist with a fabulous hairdo the brightest shade of red, a wardrobe full of loud flowery patterns, and is just a bit soft ‘like a makeup sponge'. But there is one other thing you need to know about Dali: he is not gay, or at least he thinks he's not. After Dali arrives fashionably late for a stint at the Miss Manilla Pageant, he bumps into a pageant hopeful, the gorgeous Angel who takes his breath...
I Love You, Beksman is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
Dali (Christian Bables) is a flamboyant make-up artist with a fabulous hairdo the brightest shade of red, a wardrobe full of loud flowery patterns, and is just a bit soft ‘like a makeup sponge'. But there is one other thing you need to know about Dali: he is not gay, or at least he thinks he's not. After Dali arrives fashionably late for a stint at the Miss Manilla Pageant, he bumps into a pageant hopeful, the gorgeous Angel who takes his breath...
- 7/23/2023
- by Leon Overee
- AsianMoviePulse
Christian Bables in I Love You, Beksman
Why does a simple thing like falling in love create so much confusion for some people? Perci Intalan's I Love You, Beksman, which opened the 2023 Queer East film festival in London, tells the story of a flamboyantly attired hairdresser and make-up artist who shocks his big queer family by coming out as straight after he falls for a beauty queen. As he tries to win her heart, he comes under pressure from her family to change the way he lives and presents himself, not realising that that was what got her attention in the first place. This lively, high spirited comedy takes on some serious issues but does so in a way which almost anybody can find enjoyable. Perci agreed to answer some questions about this for Eye For Film, as well as talking about another film at the festival, About Us But Not About Us,...
Why does a simple thing like falling in love create so much confusion for some people? Perci Intalan's I Love You, Beksman, which opened the 2023 Queer East film festival in London, tells the story of a flamboyantly attired hairdresser and make-up artist who shocks his big queer family by coming out as straight after he falls for a beauty queen. As he tries to win her heart, he comes under pressure from her family to change the way he lives and presents himself, not realising that that was what got her attention in the first place. This lively, high spirited comedy takes on some serious issues but does so in a way which almost anybody can find enjoyable. Perci agreed to answer some questions about this for Eye For Film, as well as talking about another film at the festival, About Us But Not About Us,...
- 4/29/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Dali (Christian Bables) is a slender young thing with flamingo pink hair who wears loud shirts, speaks using the upper part of his vocal range and swings his hips when he walks. He’s a fashion designer and make-up artist who lives as part of a big queer family with a doting house mother who refers to him as anakshie (‘daughter’). Imagine their surprise when he comes out – as straight.
A lively comedy from writer-director team Fatrick Tabada and Perci M Intalan, who previously worked together on 2019’s Born Beautiful, this is in one part a sidelong take on the experience of a more conventional coming out, and another part celebration of the options out there beyond conventional straight masculinity. Although it touches on some dark subjects, including the way that masculinity is often reinforced through violence, it’s ultimately a joyous, life-affirming film. Neither its silliness nor its occasionally barbed wit.
A lively comedy from writer-director team Fatrick Tabada and Perci M Intalan, who previously worked together on 2019’s Born Beautiful, this is in one part a sidelong take on the experience of a more conventional coming out, and another part celebration of the options out there beyond conventional straight masculinity. Although it touches on some dark subjects, including the way that masculinity is often reinforced through violence, it’s ultimately a joyous, life-affirming film. Neither its silliness nor its occasionally barbed wit.
- 4/18/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Now in its fourth year, Queer East will return to cinema screens across the capital and around the UK in 2023 with another exciting line-up which mixes contemporary feature film and documentary with retrospective screenings, short films, artists’ moving image works, a VR cinematic experience and dance productions that explore a diverse range of topical LGBTQ+ issues. Through an incredible programme of cinema and performance art the festival will push boundaries and challenge expectations and labels commonly associated with queer communities. Queer East’s vital programme is sure to provoke, inspire and engage.
Consisting of a main festival which will take from 18 to 30 April 2023 across eight venues in London, and a nationwide tour planned from September to November across ten cities, Queer East 2023 features 50 films incorporating work from 17 countries across East and Southeast Asia and beyond.
New additions to this year’s festival include Focus Korea which consists of 15 titles spanning...
Consisting of a main festival which will take from 18 to 30 April 2023 across eight venues in London, and a nationwide tour planned from September to November across ten cities, Queer East 2023 features 50 films incorporating work from 17 countries across East and Southeast Asia and beyond.
New additions to this year’s festival include Focus Korea which consists of 15 titles spanning...
- 3/19/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The Lgbtq+ voices get louder in Asian cinemas too. Generally, outside specific genres like sex comedies or erotic pictures, sex is rarely approached as a serious issue, unless you really look for it. Here are 5 films of 2019 that have broken the taboo and even taboo within the taboo and have discussed sex, sexual identity or orientation openly. Of course, we still swim in the not-exactly-mainstream waters, but the below listed five films hit several jackpots with bravado. And they are fabulous alternatives for the Valentine Days flick. Well, except for “Kalel, 15”, perhaps. But with the person queer in a fitting way…
The films are alphabetically ordered.
1. Born Beautiful (2019) by Perci Intalan
“Born Beautiful” is a sequel, or rather spin-off, of fabulous “Die Beautiful” (2016) by Jun Robles Lana. Now, the spotlight lights on Trisha’s (Paolo Ballesteros) Bff Barbs (Martin del Rosario) and her identity crises. Bearing the traces of Lana’s writing,...
The films are alphabetically ordered.
1. Born Beautiful (2019) by Perci Intalan
“Born Beautiful” is a sequel, or rather spin-off, of fabulous “Die Beautiful” (2016) by Jun Robles Lana. Now, the spotlight lights on Trisha’s (Paolo Ballesteros) Bff Barbs (Martin del Rosario) and her identity crises. Bearing the traces of Lana’s writing,...
- 3/2/2020
- by Anomalilly
- AsianMoviePulse
After the huge success of “Die Beautiful”, there was bound to be a sequel, and “Born Beautiful” serves that purpose, despite the fact that it is more of a spin off, as it focuses on the character of Barbs Cordero, who was one of the best friends of Trisha in the first film.
“Born Beautiful” is screening at the Slovak Queer Film Festival
Barbs works in a funeral parlor, where she makes the faces of the deceased look like famous stars. After a rather surrealistic scene where she meets with the deceased Trisha, troubles with her boyfriend, Greg, who happens to be married, and her best friend dying after being struck by lightning, Barbs decides to leave her trans life behind and become a straight man. To do so, he joins the Way of Light, an organization who is specialized in returning trans women to manhood, through religion. During her effort,...
“Born Beautiful” is screening at the Slovak Queer Film Festival
Barbs works in a funeral parlor, where she makes the faces of the deceased look like famous stars. After a rather surrealistic scene where she meets with the deceased Trisha, troubles with her boyfriend, Greg, who happens to be married, and her best friend dying after being struck by lightning, Barbs decides to leave her trans life behind and become a straight man. To do so, he joins the Way of Light, an organization who is specialized in returning trans women to manhood, through religion. During her effort,...
- 10/17/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Terence Chang, Philippe Bober and Naomi Kawase are among the producers of the 30 projects selected for this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf, March 23-25).
Bober, one of the Europe’s most respected producers and distributors, is teaming up with award-winning Chinese director Lou Ye to produce Riddle from Zhou Hao, whose debut The Night screened at Berlinale 2014.
Chang, the longtime producing partner of John Woo, is co-producing coming-of-age drama That Summer, to be directed by new mainland Chinese talent Zhou Quan. Meanwhile, Kawase is serving as producer on a project to be directed by Cuba’s Carlos Machado Quintela, which is being made in collaboration with the Nara International Film Festival.
The Haf line-up also includes five projects from Hong Kong filmmakers of different generations. Following Doomsday Party, Ho Hong is returning to Haf with suspense drama Lost In Border, while Gilitte Leung is attending for the first time with inspirational sports drama Breathing...
Bober, one of the Europe’s most respected producers and distributors, is teaming up with award-winning Chinese director Lou Ye to produce Riddle from Zhou Hao, whose debut The Night screened at Berlinale 2014.
Chang, the longtime producing partner of John Woo, is co-producing coming-of-age drama That Summer, to be directed by new mainland Chinese talent Zhou Quan. Meanwhile, Kawase is serving as producer on a project to be directed by Cuba’s Carlos Machado Quintela, which is being made in collaboration with the Nara International Film Festival.
The Haf line-up also includes five projects from Hong Kong filmmakers of different generations. Following Doomsday Party, Ho Hong is returning to Haf with suspense drama Lost In Border, while Gilitte Leung is attending for the first time with inspirational sports drama Breathing...
- 2/4/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) has unveiled this year’s line-up of 29 projects, including two from the Philippines’ Brillante Mendoza.
The line-up includes four projects under the third annual Haf/Fox Chinese Film Development Award, which aims to support scripts from up-and-coming Chinese filmmakers (see full line-up below).
Mendoza is bringing feature film project The Embroiderer, about undying love, along with documentary Gay Messiah, which questions religion and belief. The Philippines’ Jun Robles Lana also returns to Haf this year with his project Our Father, after winning the 2013 Haf award for Barber’s Tales.
Hong Kong filmmakers are also strongly represented in the line-up, with five projects, including comedian Lam Tze-chung’s Game and actress-turned-director Carrie Ng’s Angel Whispers.
Hong Kong projects also include Jason Kwan’s A Nail Clipper Romance, produced by acclaimed director Pang Ho-cheung; Philip Yung’s The Sea, produced by Jia Zhang-ke’s regular producer Chow Keung; and Simon Chung...
The line-up includes four projects under the third annual Haf/Fox Chinese Film Development Award, which aims to support scripts from up-and-coming Chinese filmmakers (see full line-up below).
Mendoza is bringing feature film project The Embroiderer, about undying love, along with documentary Gay Messiah, which questions religion and belief. The Philippines’ Jun Robles Lana also returns to Haf this year with his project Our Father, after winning the 2013 Haf award for Barber’s Tales.
Hong Kong filmmakers are also strongly represented in the line-up, with five projects, including comedian Lam Tze-chung’s Game and actress-turned-director Carrie Ng’s Angel Whispers.
Hong Kong projects also include Jason Kwan’s A Nail Clipper Romance, produced by acclaimed director Pang Ho-cheung; Philip Yung’s The Sea, produced by Jia Zhang-ke’s regular producer Chow Keung; and Simon Chung...
- 1/27/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Manila, Philippines -- "American Idol" runner-up and Murray, Utah, native David Archuleta says he's "excited" about working on a Philippine TV series.
His Filipino co-stars Jasmine Curtis-Smith and Eula Caballero welcomed him with flower garlands at Manila's airport Friday. They'll be shooting the TV5 drama the next few weeks.
Fans and journalists jostled to take pictures as the 20-year-old singer emerged from the airport gate.
Archuleta said in a video blog before leaving the U.S. that he has taken acting lessons to prepare. He says: "I'm excited about it. ... This is a new experience for me."
TV5 Vice President Perci Intalan says "it's a dream come true" for the network to have Archuleta in a Filipino show.
His Filipino co-stars Jasmine Curtis-Smith and Eula Caballero welcomed him with flower garlands at Manila's airport Friday. They'll be shooting the TV5 drama the next few weeks.
Fans and journalists jostled to take pictures as the 20-year-old singer emerged from the airport gate.
Archuleta said in a video blog before leaving the U.S. that he has taken acting lessons to prepare. He says: "I'm excited about it. ... This is a new experience for me."
TV5 Vice President Perci Intalan says "it's a dream come true" for the network to have Archuleta in a Filipino show.
- 1/13/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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