11 December 2018- C NTENT 6 January 2019 www.contentasia.tv l www.contentasiasummit.com C NTENT is taking a break for the holidays. We We will be back on 7 January 2019. Here’s wishing you the happiest of holidays and all good things for 2019! are Philippines’ Cignal streams 4 originals Production gains ground, bullies. 2018 doubles 2017 output Philippines’ Cignal has premiered four original series from sister production com- pany, Cignal Entertainment. The titles – including season two of crime drama We produce unnecessary waste that ends up in landfills and Tukhang about the war on drugs – stream the ocean every day. Our planet is in danger. everyone and on Cignal Play OTT. The other series are romcom Sleepless, a spin off of the 2015 everything in it is at risk. movie about call centre agents; romance anthology Feels Like Forever; and fantasy anthology Agham Inc. The series follow Do your part today. last year’s thriller TabiPo and Tukhang 1. #StopBullyingNature #LoveNature Korea exports -9.4% Pay-TV +9.1%, subs +5.4% Korean content exports dropped 9.4% in 2017 to US$230 million, according to new government data. Revenue at the big three terrestrial nets dipped 7.9% to LoveNatureTV LoveNature KRW3.7 trillion. Pay-TV programme provid- ers (incl IPTV channels) fared well, closing last year at KRW5.6 trillion – up 9.1%. Pay subs rose to 31.67m. Total domestic broad- cast market was worth KRW16.5 trillion last year, the Ministry of Science & ICT said. C NTENTASIA 11 December 2018-6 January 2019 Page 2. Who was at... ContentAsia Women’s Dinner @ the ATF Joyce Yeung, eOne; Leena Singarajah, A+E Networks Asia; Ana Sevilla, Roxanne Barcelona, GMA Worldwide Philippines; Anne Jakrajutatip, JKN Global Media; Wincess Lee, Cecille Sumabat, ABS-CBN Philippines; Angie Jakrajutatip, JKN Global Media; Indra Suharjono; Bich Hanh Ngo, BHD Vietnam; Loke Kheng Tham, Mediacorp Singapore; Virginia Lim, Sony Pictures Television Networks Asia; Marianne Lee, Turner Rosanne Lo, Plus Media; Aude Dionnet, Reed Mi- dem; Janine Stein, ContentAsia; Karine Schroed- er, TV5Monde; Debbie Lee, Tech Storm Jessica Kam, HBO Asia, Rachel Smith, ex- Caroline Clarke, SkyVision; Angie Poh, Medi- changewire; Wendy Hogan, Oracle; Sue Adams, acorp; Rashmi Bajpai, Endemol Shine; Bridgit Bamboo Development; Mee Fung Lee, DW O’Donovan, Facebook; Jihee Nam, Instagram; Indriena Basarah, Fremantle Karen Yew, Doreen Neo, Mediacorp; Kit Yeow, all3media International; Jesslyn Wong, Mediacorp; Lenny Leong, Astro Malaysia Edwina Ngao, A+E Networks Asia; Kako Tripta Singh, Zee Entertainment; Paula Mason, Kuwahara, Nippon TV, Japan BDA Rebecca Yeo, iConcerts Asia/Stingray; Ashley More at facebook.com/contentasia Goh, Sky Vision GIVING BUYERS PREMIUM ACCESS TO THE WORLD’S LEADING DISTRIBUTORS SEE INSTANT AVAILS AND SCREEN OVER 70,000 HOURS OF GREAT CONTENT ALL IN ONE PLACE SIGN UP FOR FREE AT TRX.TV/SIGN-UP COME AND HAVE A DEMO AT ATF STAND: JO9 11 december 2018-6 January 2019 page 3. C NTENTASIA 11 December 2018-6 January 2019 Page 4. Who was at... the Singapore Media Festival S Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Joachim Ng, IMDA Singapore; Liza B. Dino, Film Jonathan Spink, HBO Asia; Angie Poh, Mediacorp; Information, Singapore Development Council of the Philippines Gabriel Lim, IMDA Singapore Abhi Rastogi, 108 Media; Rob Gilby, Blue Hat Howie Lau, IMDA Singapore; Janine Stein, Seo Jang Ho, CJ ENM, Korea; Chalakorn Ventures/Singapore Media Festival ContentAsia Panyashom, Workpoint Group, Thailand Lee Choon Hua, Doreen Neo, Mediacorp Hideki Furutani, Aya Takagawa, Wowow, Japan Zoe Wilson, Victoria De Kerdrel, TRX Singapore; Wang Shaudi, Eightgeman, Taiwan Ashley Goh, Caroline Clarke, Julien Farcat, Cake Jully Kim, CJ ENM, Ana Sevilla, GMA Salmi Gambarova, Sky Vision Sky Vision Korea Worldwide Philippines Kanal D Isabella M. 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From page 4 Ahmad Shuhaimi Jailani, IMDA; Sabariah Ramilan, Laksiri Wickramage, Desmond Aram, Zaza Majid, Mediacorp; Suhaimi Yusof, talent TV Derana, Sri Lanka Green Gold Animation, India Shenthil Ranie, Inflight Wirata Laksanasopin, Daisy Cheng, Steam Corey Caplan, Rights Workpoint Group Works, China Gusto TV Nattinee Piromlapa, Pannipa Thiraphong, Vicky Zheng, Cindy Xin, Camsing Global Taew Natapohn Tameeruks, talent; Anne Jakraju- Workpoint Group, Thailand tatip JKN Global Media Thailand; Ken Phupoom Pongpanupak, talent Guo Jingyu, Yue Lina, Venessa Lian, John Ho, Emir Duzel, Debbie Lee, TechTV Sabanitha Rosanne Lo, Plus GHY Culture and Media ATV, Turkey Network Shanmugasundram, Media Networks Asia Mediacorp Ian McKee, Vuulr; Dao Trong Nhan, Mercury Niu Cong, Katherine Jiang, Zhejiang Versatile, Jayasri Myneni, Chia Su Jean, IMDA Media & Entertainment, Vietnam China iDream Media, India contentasia WAGING WAR ON DIRT factual that fascinates from talent that resonates ONE PERSON’S PARADISE IS ANOTHER’S HELL ON EARTH @all3media_int all3mediainternational.com 11 december 2018-6 January 2019 page 7. C NTENTASIA 11 December 2018-6 January 2019 Page 8. New Asia studio backs Record 6,500km walk for 6-part series LGBTQ filmmaking Ash Dykes on the first months of the year-long adventure Taiwanese LGBTQ rights movement is backing a new studio designed to sup- port queer filmmaking. Gol Studios, which came out during the Singapore Media Festival (SMF) in Singapore last week, outlines a mission “to help develop outstanding queer films and to bring them further into the mainstream”. Morgan Jon Fox’s Feral on Gagaoolala The new studio, a partnership with the Portico Media-backed LGBT film streaming platform GagaooLala, aims to “forge a community of diverse filmmak- ers to develop, finance and distribute films that will inspire a generation of storytellers,” says Jay Lin, Portico Media Ash Dykes, Into The Heart Of China chief executive and founder/director of the Taiwan International Queer Film Wolves, bears, leopards, snow leopards, about two years to plan and was mas- Festival. landslides, mainland police, altitude-sick sively complicated in terms of permits, Gol Studios advisors include Sigrid An- guides, hospital beds, warnings not to permissions and logistics. And then there drea Bernardo (Mr & Mrs Cruz), Nelson walk at night, exquisite views and big were the things he couldn’t plan for. For Yeh (A Taiwanese Tale of Two Cities) experiences... That pretty much sums up instance, seven of the eight people who and Zero Chou (The Substitute). British extreme adventurer Ash Dykes’ life joined him in the early stages of the mission The studio follows a path set in the since August this year, when he set off had to be evacuated, mostly because of past few years by the Taiwan Interna- from the Jianggendiru Glacier on the Ti- altitude sickness. “The mission was already tional Queer Film Festival and Gaga- betan Plateau to become the first person in jeopardy two days in,” he says. oolala, which is Asia’s first LGBT film ever to walk more than 6,437km along the Filming the trip is a mix of DIY – “I had a streaming platform. Yangtze from source to sea. few lessons” – tech (a drone and a few “We realised how many projects, Four months in, #MissionYangtze is GoPros) he carries with him and profes- stories worth telling, are out there that on the 308 Provincial Road between sional crew at various points. are not being funded,” Lin says. Zhongtai and Zhongcun, moving towards Dykes is already a two-time world record Gol Studios hopes to back 10-15 Jin’An on a year-long journey being holder – for a solo/unsupported walk projects – including feature films, short- tracked for the six-part half-hour docu- across Mongolia in 2014, followed two form and TV series – a year. “We’re not mentary, Into The Heart of China: Walking years later by being the first person to talk dictating what kinds of projects,” Lin The Yangtze. the length of Madagascar. says. The series, scheduled for delivery in Q4 He says he started thinking about the “We understand queer cinema, its 2019, is a partnership between Singapore- Yangtze project before he started his differences and uniqueness. Gol Stu- based distribution/production agency Madagascar challenge. dios is born with the objective of giving Bomanbridge Media and production “I always find that if I’m thinking of the support new LGBT film projects in all house Mandarin Film. next trip it always motivates me to get this states of production, from funding to Speaking by phone from the road, current one done”. marketing,” he adds. Dykes says the China adventure took More at www.contentasia.tv OUT NOW! 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India, Singapore top inaugural Asian awards 47 winners spread across 13 countries, streamers shine The “Goddess of Creativity” spread her wings wide for the inaugural Asian Academy Creative Awards, held in Sin- gapore last week.