
It's not really a glamor sort of event but if you want to know what titles of interest are coming down the line in Asia you could do worse than to keep an eye on the annual Pusan Promotion Plan. Run in conjunction with the Asian Film Market at the Pusan International Film Festival the Plan chooses a small group of films - it's thirty five this year - to receive special attention and promotion within the market to help them secure financing. Not all of them will get made but most will and past film makers to use the plan include the likes of Takashi Miike, Kim Ki-Duk and Kiyoshi Kurosawa. In this year's line-up? A Hong Kong / South Africa / Japanese co-production from Fruit Chan titled Don't Look Up, the Terence Chang produced The Wooden-Man Chamber of Shaolin Temple (and how can you not love that title?), Sion Sono's Room of Dreams, Hong Sang-Soo's Night and Day and the Tsai Ming-Liang produced New Sorrowful to a Ghost.
