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Du site de l'éd.: The most exciting developments in world cinema over the past two decades have been linked to East Asian countries such as China, Japan and South Korea. Films made in East Asia triumph at festivals around the globe. Booming film markets are attached to the most important film festivals in Hong Kong, Pusan, Tokyo and Shanghai. The West is only just beginning to wake up to the importance of these film festivals to global film distribution. In their latest volume, Film Festivals and East Asia (2011), scholars from the University of St. Andrews chart cutting-edge developments in global film. Prof. Dina Iordanova has stated: 'In opening up debates on the worldwide network of film festivals we are laying necessary groundwork for the understanding of global film circulation.' This third volume in the Film Festival Yearbook series explores a rapidly expanding but little-studied area in film festival - film festivals in East Asia. The book contains a series of contextual essays and case studies, and a resources section comprising four original interviews with insiders from the most important Asian film festivals, a festival location map, festival listings and East Asian film festival studies-related bibliographies. Contributors include James Bell, Birgit Beumers, Felicia Chan, Yun-hua Chen, Ruby Cheung, Dave Chua, Marijke de Valck, Alex Fischer, Chris Fujiwara, Dina Iordanova, Adam Knee, Kong Rithdee, Sangjoon Lee, Seunghee Lee, Skadi Loist, Adrian Martin, Abé Mark Nornes, Ragan Rhyne, Julian Stringer and Tom Vick.