Portico Media adds Gol Studio to support production of LGBT content in Asia.
A blanket of gloomy gray cloud hovers above a remote village in the heavily symbolic Bhutanese drama “The Red Phallus.” Relating the tale of a 16-year-old girl driven slowly to madness by the men around her, Tashi Gyeltshen’s noteworthy feature debut is marked by pungent criticism of stifling social norms and psychological violence that’s rarely […]
Hong Kong director Kit Hung’s new film “Forever 17” is among the first projects to be supported by Gol Studios, a new LGBT production platform, launched by Jay Lin’s Taiwan-based Portico Media. Aiming to take LGBT cinema into the mainstream, Gol Studio is a crowd sourcing website that helps film projects on three fronts: […]
Chinese films have won a shelf-full of top prizes at major festivals in the past few years.
