The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) has selected Japan as the 2026 Focus Country for its Producer Hub, a co-production networking platform tied to the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF(. Japan will send 10 producers to Busan in October for project pitching, speed meetings and case-study sessions. Now in its third year, Producer Hub
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jayden Lee, 27, a Century 21 Canada real estate agent who built a wellness hub in his townhouse garage in the Vancouver suburb of Chilliwack, British Columbia. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. As a teenager, I had cancer. Then, in 2020, I
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“Peaky Blinders” may have given closely clipped back and sides haircuts a new lease of life, but it’s now helped a region of the U.K. land official backing as a center for high-end productions. The British Film Commission has announced that the West Midlands, home to the city of Birmingham and where “Peaky Blinders” is
The United States, however, has continued to tighten the screws. In late May, it launched an investigation to determine whether Vietnam’s failure to eradicate intellectual property violations was “unreasonable” and problematic for U.S. trade. So the Vietnamese authorities tightened their own screws. On June 10, police in Thanh Hoa province dismantled a network that manufactured