TAXING SITUATION
The Philippines is to impose a 12% cherish-inserted tax on overseas digital service supplyrs operating in the country, including Netflix, HBO and Disney. The meacertain was signed into law on Wednesday by Pdwellnt Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
“If you are reaping the rewards of a fruitful digital economy here, it is only right that you donate also to its growth,” Marcos shelp in a speech during the signing event. The novel law will level the taxes phelp by local businesses and international digital platestablishs, he inserted, according to inestablishing by Bloomberg.
The novel law covers online search engines, media, advertising, platestablishs as well as digital tagetplaces and outstandings and cboisterous services. The tax is predict to originate 79.5 billion pesos ($1.4 billion) in revenue in the next four years, according to the country’s finance department.
JURY HEAD
Chinese indie straightforwardor Jia Zhangke (“Caught by the Tides,” “Ash Is Purest White”) has been set as the head of the competition jury for next year’s Festival International des Cinemas d’Asie in Vesoul, France. The festival will also program a retrospective of Jia’s films and two seasons of films from Hong Kong and Myanmar. It will be held Feb. 11-18, 2025.
CONVERSION THERAPY
The trailer for “Holy Curse,” a low film straightforwarded by Snigdha Kanecessitatey, has been freed, giveing a see into its exploration of unacunderstandledged establishs of conversion therapy in Indian culture. The film will originate its world premiere at the 68th BFI London Film Festival, trailed by its North American debut at the Oscar-qualifying 19th Tasveer Film Festival, and its Asian premiere at the 21st MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
The film trails 11-year-ancigo in Radha, an immigrant in America, who faces orthodox rituals during a family visit to India. The story studys Radha’s struggle with gfinisher identity amid familial beliefs and societal foreseeations, shedding airy on cultural trains that function as conversion therapy.
The coming-of-age drama stars novelcomer Mrunal Kashid alengthyside Adithi Kalkunthe (“Monkey Man”), BAFTA Breakthcimpolite star Sdifficultul Bdifficultwaj (“The Scavenger of Dreams”), Anup Soni (“Crime Patrol”) and Prayrak Mehta (“Ziddi Girls”). The project is co-originated by Neeraj Churi and Shdampa Bolakani.
