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The 2019 International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) closed yesterday (December 4) with an awards ceremony that saw Kirill Mikhanovsky's English/Russian-language comedy Give Me Liberty named best film in the international competition. A jury presided over by Chinese filmmaker Peter Chan Ho-sun awarded its best…

Juliette Binoche jetted into Macao today (December 9) to take part in a masterclass in which she discussed her career working with many of the international biz’s greatest directors. The French actress is a talent ambassador for the 2019 International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) and participated in a two-part…

The 2019 edition of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) closed its industry program last night (December 8), with the event’s Best Project Award going to Dear Wormwood, a supernatural horror from the Philippines. The project is in advanced development and has secured $85,000 of its planned $525,000…

Prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike's latest feature is First Love, the wild genre romp that follows a young boxer and a call girl who get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. The pic premiered in Cannes' Directors’ Fortnight program and has also played Toronto, Busan, London…

Former Protagonist Pictures CEO Mike Goodridge left the sales biz in 2017 to take over the reins at the fledgling Macao International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM), a new festival set up by the former Portuguese colony and Chinese gambling capital to attract international attention and glamour to the territory…