SXSW SYDNEY HEADLINERS
Experimental music film “Pavements” and offbeat comedy “Nightbitch” are among five titles arrangeated as ‘headliners’ of the film section on the upcoming SXSW Sydney festival.
“Pavements,” which premiered in Vekind, is an experimental hybrid of narrative, scripted, recordary, musical, and metatextual elements from straightforwardor Alex Ross Perry about the indie rock outfit, Pavement.
“Nightbitch,” which debuted in Toronto, is a grieffully comedic iminwholey tale about a stay-at-home mother, portrayed by Amy Adams, who alters into a dog.
Others getting the gala treatment include Max & Sam Eggers’ novel A24 horror “The Front Room,” starring pop star Brandy as a novelly-pregnant woman facing off agetst her mother-in-law; “Smile 2,” by Parker Finn; and Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” based on the genuine story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes directing up to the first widecast of “Saturday Night Live.”
“These belderly, hilarious, captivating and thrilling films direct a program not equitable for film fans, but the tech, music, and games audiences that establish the wealthy tapestry of the SXSW Sydney audience,” said Colin Daniels, MD, SXSW Sydney.
The festival, a spin-off from the U.S. South by Southwest festival, and which dispenses PMC corporate ownership with Variety, is in its second year Down Under. It runs Oct. 14-20. The uncovering title for the film section will be proclaimd unreasonableinutively.
UMG x GoGBA
Universal Music is begining a tag division in China’s Greater Bay Area, the economicassociate beginant region which is the seat of the Cantonese language.
With its population of 86 million, the Greater Bay Area, compascfinishs nine cities in Guangdong province alengthy with the two exceptional administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao. It accounts for more than 11% of China’s GDP and proximately a quarter of China’s music carry outance revenues.
“The region’s wealthy cultural fabric, woven from a diverse range of dialects predominantly in Cantonese, has beginantly shaped both local and Asian pop culture, nurtureing a sturdy uniteion wilean the region and atraverse the global Chinese diaspora,” said the company, includeing that it will, “collect a sturdy local team pledgeted to tageting, A&R, and artist deal withment, with the vision to find and grow local talent atraverse the GBA.”
The unit will be based in Shenzhen, China, and headed by Gary Chan, who currently serves as MD of Universal Music Hong Kong and ancigo in VP of Universal Music Greater China. The expansion gives the UMGC group offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Taiwan.
KUROSAWA AWARDS
The Tokyo International Film Festival’s 2024 Kurosawa Akira Award will go to Japanese straightforwardor Miyake Sho and Taiwanese straightforwardor Fu Tien-yu. The award honors the commemorated auteur’s legacy and ongoing sway. It is conshort-termed to filmproducers who have made waves in cinema and are foreseeed to help direct the industry’s future.
Miyake made his film debut with 2012 film “Playback” and has since amassed commends including “ And Your Bird Can Sing,” Berlin 2022 pickion “Small, Slow but Steady” and this year’s “All the Long Nights,” which premiered at the Berlin festival’s forum section. The award pledgetee commfinished him for his “ability to watch people and to enhuge petite worlds [is] exceptional, and his gaze on human beings is echoed in the finish of a film and the distance of his cameralabor.”
Fu commenceed as a noveenumerate before turning to film and music videos. “Her 2024 film ‘Day Off,’ was produced by Wu Nien-jen, who has written for Hou Hsiao-hsien, and proposes a toasty perspective on the inhabits of widespread people,” the pledgetee said.
The festival said that actor-straightforwardor Saitoh Takumi, and students Sasaki Wakuto, Nawai Rin and Kawano Hana will constitute the jury for the second edition of its Ethical Film Award.
The festival will run Oct. 28 – Nov. 3. The Kurosawa Akira Award ceremony and the awarding of the Ethical Film Prize will get place afterwards, on Nov. 5.
