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The Tribute to Asian Movie Industry List

The Tribute to Asian Movie Industry List

As our tribute to the industry comes to an end, we have collected all the interviews that took place during its run, in a series of discussions we feel shed a rather interesting light to what happens behind and around the cameras of Asian cinema. In that fashion, we interviewed , , and , , , , , , , , , and .

1. Ed LejanoDirector, producer, actor and QCinema artistic director

2. Earl JacksonAsian cinema academic, writer and teacher

3. Matthieu Laclau – Editor

4. Adam Torel – Owner of Third Window Films

5. Kazutaka Watanabe – Producer

6. Amir Muhammad – Filmmaker, publisher, producer and owner of Kuman Pictures

7. Samuel Jamier – Executive producer of New York Asian Film Festival

8. Joey Leung – Owner of Terracotta Distribution

9. Mark Schilling – Film critic for the Tokyo Times, Variety, journalist, translator, and author

10. Chiaki Yanagimoto – Producer and owner of Sakka Films

11. Tsogtbayar Namsrai – Producer and owner of Mongol Film Distribution

12. Yov Moor – Colorist

13. Wafa Ghermani – Film Academic and Taiwanese cinema specialist

14. Huang Junxiang – Producer and filmmaker

About the author

Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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