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Tiptoeing Towards Regional Coproductions, Asian Governments Take Funding, Reform Steps


Governments and agencies across Asia are taking steps to expand and extend the cross-border film coproduction movement.

A seminar called ‘From Eurasia to Global Collaboration’ on Thursday, the third day of the Taiwan Creative Content Fest, represented a handy recap of funding and structural developments from four countries: The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey. Indonesia is also a founder member of the Asian Film Alliance Network (AFAN, alongside Mongolia, Singapore, Taiwan, The Philippines, South Korea and Malaysia). Faruk Guven, of public broadcaster Turkish Radio Television, and Esra Demirkiran of its TRT Sinema unit, put on a neat double act.

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