Reel Asian

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Reel AsianAsiaAnnouncing the 2026 Reel Asian Pitch! Finalists Meet the 2026 Pitch! finalists competing in front of the #ReelAsian30 live jury and audience for a prize package designed to help bring their film to life.

October 15

Reel AsianAsiaTHE DAY BEFORE: 30th Anniversary Photo Series THE DAY BEFORE is a photo series focused on the mundane moments leading up to Reel Asian’s 30th anniversary festival in November.

October 7

Reel AsianAsiaReel Asian TIFF Delegation Recap 2026 Reel Asian's TIFF delegates share their takeaways from TIFF: The Market, including panels, screenings, networking, reconnecting with colleagues, and more.

October 5

Reel AsianAsia2026 Reel Asian TV Writing Program Participants Meet the 2026 Reel Asian TV Writing Program participants spending the next several months developing an original scripted television series.

September 10

Reel AsianAsiaAnnouncing the Reel Asian TIFF 2026 Delegation Reel Asian is sending ten delegates to TIFF 2026 to join the conversations and connections driving the future of entertainment forward.

September 4

Reel AsianAsiaPersonals: Your next connection is at Reel Asian The best Reel Asian moments aren't always saved for on screen. Share a 4-5 line personal about yourself and who you'd like to meet.

August 10

Reel AsianAsiaApply for the Reel Asian 2026 TIFF Delegation Apply for the Reel Asian 2026 TIFF Delegation! Deadline is Wed, July 29. Applicants must be RAAN members. Current program participants will also be considered.

July 22

Reel AsianAsiaAnnouncing the ArtWorksTO Youth Program Participants Reel Asian collaborates with the ArtWorksTO Youth Program to welcome Nedine Rafid, Tiffany Hu, and Yujie Wang.

July 21

Reel AsianAsia2026 Fire Horse Award Gala Honours Ana Serrano and marks the Inaugural Fire Horse Auction Reel Asian is excited to honour producer, visionary leader, and innovator Ana Serrano as the 2026 Fire Horse Award Recipient.

June 4

Reel AsianAsiaAnnouncing the 2026 Unsung Voices Participants The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is thrilled to introduce the 2026 Unsung Voices participants: Angeline Javier, Minjae Kwak, Yasmin Lau, Nick Patel, Nidhil Vohra, and Fanny…

June 2

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo