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MCI (P) 047/06/2017 PPS 1812/01/2013 (025534) ISSN 0219-6166 www.onscreenasia.com Vol. 25 | Issue 01 | January-March 2019 New Wave of Young Filmmakers television ASIA.indd 1 20/2/18 10:19 am editor’snote PUBLISHING K.DASS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR/PUBLISHER The secret is out! [email protected] (65) 6828 9333 It’s no rumor; Television Asia Plus has been acquired by HARVEST INFORMATION recently. The EDITORIAL only Asia-Pacific base broadcast publication that has YI AN ANG stolen the limelight for over twenty-seven years has EDITORIAL ASSISTANT settled down after much uncertainty in 2018. Well, its [email protected] business as usual now with enhanced content and direct links to the editor /publisher @ editorial@harvest-info. (65) 6828 9333 com. The new management has promised sensible pricing, editorial support and you get amplified across all ANG LER SING platforms. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT [email protected] Enough of the nonsense we’ve been hearing for months. (65) 6828 9333 So don’t go into hiding with another as Television Asia Plus has been second to none in the industry. Breathless K. Dass, Editorial Director ALISON YEO contestants do give excuses when they perceive injuries on the winner. Well, the champion is back on the race and we will justify with results. EDITORIAL Assistant [email protected] HKFILMART opens this March (65) 6828 9333 About 880 exhibitors from 35 countries and regions will participate in the DESIGN/PRODUCTION 23rd edition of FILMART. Alongside major Hong Kong film companies, this year’s SAMANTHA THAM event features exhibitors from various international cities together with cities and GRAPHIC DESIGNER provinces from Mainland China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Hangzhou [email protected] and Hunan. Exhibitors from Jiangsu, Hengdian and Xiamen will form new regional pavilions for the first time. In addition, more than 390 exhibitors from Belt and Road (65) 6828 9333 countries, including Russia, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Ukraine, Poland, Cambodia, Turkey and Vietnam, are taking part in FILMART to explore both mainland and global opportunities via the Hong Kong platform. Documentaries will be a strong focus at this year’s FILMART, with visitors able to explore the documentary works of 290 exhibitors from the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. A seminar titled “Documentaries: Why does your story matter?” will be held on the first day of the event featuring Esther van Messel, CEO of First Hand Films; Lex Zhu, Producer of A Bite of China; and David Weiland, EVP Asia at BBC Studios. Other conferences and seminars will feature a heavyweight line-up of international and local speakers, including Jonathan Spink, CEO of HBO Asia (production house of Folklore and Master of the Drunken Fist: Beggar So); Sean Park, Marketing Director of YouTube International Markets; Jim Packer, President of Worldwide TV and Digital Distribution, Lionsgate (distributors of movie series The Hunger Games); Joe Aguilar, Emmy Award-winning producer; Belle Avery, Producer of The Meg; Sin Kwoklam, producer of The Legend is Born – Ip Man; Pang Hocheung, Director of Love in a Puff; and Derek Tsang, Director of Soul Mate. Meanwhile, Yu Gong, Founder and CEO of iQIYI,Inc will speak at a sharing session titled “Insights with iQIYI”. To help participants foster new business partnerships, FILMART will also feature over 60 networking events, thematic seminars and press conferences. More than 300 screenings will be held over the four days of the event, including around 100 international and Asia premieres. Guests at the event will include Paul Chan, Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; Margaret Fong, HKTDC Executive Director; Liu Meiru, Deputy Director-General, TV Drama Department, State Administration of Radio and Television; Peter Lam, Chairman of the HKTDC Entertainment Industry Advisory Committee; and Leon Lai, Ambassador of the Harvest Information Pte Ltd Entertainment Expo. 39 MacTaggart Road #05-01 Asia Media Center, Singapore 368084 Tel: +65 6828 9333 Printed in Singapore Television Asia Plus is published seven times a year. All rights reserved. Pease addess all subscription mail to Television Asia Plus at the above address or phone number. For annual air-speeded scriptions for non-qualified subscribers. please contact Editorial department at [email protected]. Television Asia Plus Volume ( january-march 2019 television asia plus | 1 contents New Wave of Young Filmmakers 3 The Rundown 8 The Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing 7 People Forum announces Operation Greenlight projects and additional 8 Tradeshows award sponsors. 10 Feature: Addressable TV 11 Feature: Confronting Pollution This year’s shortlisted Operation 12 Feature: Wicked Tuna Greenlight projects include: 13 Feature Netflix - A Pele Da Flor 14 Managing Asia - Unclaimed 15 Technology - Just for Lease - Leaves fall in Spring 16 Review 10 Addressable 11 TV: the perfect Mongolia’s Reindeer balance of local People Confront Pollution in Poignant impact and global Double Music Video scale Follow directing duo Sil & Jorik as they show a unique culture under threat in breath-takingly beautiful 12 films for Novo Amor Wicked Tuna returns for Season 8 13 National Geographic’s hit reality fishing Netflix competition returns for Concurs anime an eighth season in the production unrelenting waters of the North Atlantic. Netflix has entered into partnerships to create anime series with Anima, Sublimation Game Changer in the and David Production. 14 Philippines One of the country’s two dominant players, GMA Network delivers local- language entertainment on its 15 flagship channels as well as on nonlinear platforms. GMA Ooyala Network’s Vice President Roxanne Barcelona tells K. Evaluates Dass about what drives their success in the Philippines. Patricio Cummins, Vice President for Asia-Pacific and Japan, recently shared Ooyala’s predictions for this coming year. 19 Epic Drama He provided some insight to the ever-changing media and Beecham entertainment industry with new content trends capturing House set to audience attention. air in the US Top French TV Execs Fremantle secures 16 US deal for Gurinder take to MIPTV stage Chadha’s upcoming France Televisios, TF1, CANAL+, ARTE, Banijay series set in India Group and Picture Perfect Federation to Keynote in France Country of Honour Programme. 2 | television asia plus january-march 2019 therundown tvN’s romance drama Encounter leads viewership ratings charts HOOQ bags three awards at the inaugural Asian SINGAPORE – Viu fans can now enjoy Encounter four hours after Korea’s telecast with the platform’s exclusive Academy Creative Awards streaming rights acquisition for Asia and watch their favourite Hallyu stars on selected Samsung Smart TVs. SINGAPORE – HOOQ Originals Encounter, this year-end’s highly-anticipated blockbuster drama series, premiered with stellar viewership ratings and dominated awards for Indonesia with looks set to rule the drama charts with very positive ratings, impressing viewers with scenic views and a captivating three wins, including the coveted storyline. Best Leading Actress award. Featuring two household names – Park Bo Gum and Song Hye Kyo – as its main leads, the debut episode broke HOOQ, Asia’s first and largest tvN’s viewership ratings record for a Wednesday-Thursday drama premiere and continues to be a leading drama in video-on-demand service, picked its timeslot across free-to-air and cable TV channels. up three awards at the inaugural Asian Academy Creative Awards The debut episode recorded an impressive viewership rating of 8.7 per cent, surpassing the 6.3 per cent rating 2018 including ‘Best Sound’ and of hit K-drama Goblin’s premiere. Encounter has also claimed the top spot in its timeslot last week, outperforming ‘Best Cinematography’ for Marlina SBS’ An Empress’s Dignity and MBC’s Children of Nobody, with viewership ratings of 7.6 per cent and 3.9 percent The Murderer in Four Acts and ‘Best respectively. Encounter also holds the second highest premiere viewership rating among tvN’s dramas. Actress in a Leading Role’ with Adinia Wirasti for Critical Eleven. Amazon Prime Video announced Season Two HOOQ was nominated for 12 awards of the Prime Original at the inaugural Asian Academy Series Breathe Creative Awards 2018 including ‘Best Original Screenplay’, ‘Best NATIONAL – Amazon Prime Sound’, ‘Best Cinematography’, Video has announced that it has ‘Best Original Programme by a commenced production of an all- Streamer/OTT’ with Marlina The new season of the Prime Original Murderer in Four Acts, Best Comedy Series, Breathe. Programme’ with Aliansi, and drama awards including ‘Best Actress in Created by Abundantia HBO Asia and Catchplay announces new Taiwan original a Leading Role’, ‘Best Actor in a Entertainment, the second season drama Leading Role’ and ‘Best Direction of the hugely successful show (Fiction)’ with Critical Eleven for also marks the digital streaming HBO Asia’s newest original Taiwanese drama series, The World Between Us, Indonesia; ‘Best Original Programme on-screen debut of Bollywood is a ten-part hour-long series that follows the aftermath of a mass-shooting by a Streamer/OTT’, ‘Best Comedy star Abhishek Bachchan. where all parties involved – the killer, the victims, the victims’ families, the Performance’ and ‘Best Comedy media and their representing lawyers, whose fates are all intertwined. Programme’ with Saranae Love The show will continue to You for Thailand; and ‘Best Actress be directed by Mayank Sharma The World Between Us premieres in Asia on Sunday, March 24 with two back- in a Leading Role’ with How To Be A and he, along with Bhavani Iyer, to-back episodes from 9pm (SIN) onwards exclusively* on HBO GO and HBO. Good Girl for Singapore. Vikram Tuli and Arshad Syed, have In Taiwan, the series will also be available on the CATCHPLAY On Demand helmed the narrative as writers of platform. Two new episodes will debut at the same time every Sunday.