In March 2012 the Chinese Film Forum UK will host a major symposium on the distribution and exhibition of Chinese and East Asian cinema in the UK. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, this is the first in a series of Chinese Film Forum networking events taking place across 2012 and 2013 in Manchester, UK.

Invitation to tender to capture audience responses to the collection

The National Maritime Museum (NMM) has the largest historic maritime collection in the World. The NMM’s collection spans the history of people’s relationship with the sea, showcasing for our visitors the history of seafaring, timekeeping, navigation, trade, cruising, migration, and the British Empire. The NMM is developing the range of knowledge available about the collection through the ‘In your words’ project. The pilot project will focus on capturing digital responses from our visitors to collection objects. The aim is to make accessible to visitors on-site and online, the diverse perspectives and histories connected to the collection, and particularly aims to include cultural knowledge to complement existing curatorial knowledge on objects.

I’m casting the short film "Healthy" for Hades Productions and am looking for someone to play the father, East Asian, playing age 55+

The writer Tuyen Do is a graduate of the Royal Court Writers Programme. Part developed by BBC Writers Room and B3 Media this comedy drama tells the story of a young British born Vietnamese woman’s attempts to reconcile family expectations, her own chaotic love life and what is means to stay healthy. The film will offer great, high-quality material for showreels and will also be entered into film festivals in the year ahead.

The Korean Film Night: Year of the 12 Directors

2012 Korean Film Night is proud to present the work of 12 of Korea’s leading Directors with a dynamic selection of weekly screenings throughout the year.


January’s mini-season features the films of Director LEE Myung-se who will be joining us for a special Q&A screening of his 2005 film ‘Duelist’.


Screening Details:
Duelist, 2005, 111min, Cert. 12
Thursday 26th January 2012, 6.30pm
Apollo Cinema, Piccadilly
Tickets: £10/£8 Cons.

RED LIGHT REVOLUTION finally gets a big screen release. Now's your chance to catch it if you missed it at Terracotta Festival.

The press say: “If you see one sex shop comedy this year, do not miss this one!”

The hilarious feel-good comedy tells the story of a down on his luck Beijinger (sacked by his cab company, wife runs off with another man) who throws in all his chips to open a sex toy store. Little did he know that he was a target of a high pressured sales scheme operated by a gangster who will break his legs if he doesn't deliver a weekly payment.

Nor did he realise the bureaucratic nightmare of opening a store in China. To cap it off, the neighbourhood he chose is full of geriatrics!
Shot by an Australian brought up in Beijing, it's been compared by the press to The Full Monty quite often and described from your feedback at our screenings as "a US indie comedy shot in Chinese."