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Each Other Films Unveils Slate With Folklore Epic, Drag Documentary
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Each Other Films Unveils Slate With Folklore Epic, Drag Documentary

by jummy84 November 3, 2025
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Seven years after its launch, Taiwan-based Each Other Films is stepping into an expanded phase of international production, with co-founder and head producer Jacqueline W. Liu and co-founder and CEO Tiffany Yu-Chia Chen unveiling a diverse lineup that stretches from documentary to big-budget action.

The quartet of projects represents a widening scope for the Taipei company, which has steadily built credentials through festival selections, streaming deals and local box office success since 2017.

Among the newly revealed titles is a documentary about drag performer Pangina Heals, a figure who bridges Taiwanese and Thai cultures. The film, titled “Heals,” represents the company’s initial move into factual storytelling through international partnership, working alongside Thailand’s N8 and World of Wonder.

Fiction projects include Henry Tsai’s first directorial effort, “Spent Bullets,” adapted from short stories by Taiwan writer Terao Tetsuya. Production will span multiple cities including Silicon Valley, Las Vegas and Taipei. The film has secured spots at both Golden Horse Film Project Promotion and Taiwan Creative Content Fest 2025.

The company is also returning to a proven property with a fresh chapter in its hit “The Accidental Influencer” franchise. Centered on the character Red, “The Accidental Influencer: Love Me If You Dare” will launch next January on both GTV and Netflix, bringing back the series with additional cast members and storylines focused on contemporary relationships.

Perhaps the most ambitious entry is “The Odd Three: Madam Tiger,” which director Joseph Chen-Chieh Hsu (whose credits include “Little Big Women” and Tokyo-bowing “Double Happiness”) is developing as a large-scale adventure that reinterprets traditional folklore through a modern lens. The project is being positioned as a potential launching point for additional character-driven stories across the region.

“I’ve always believed that a story rooted in a specific place, language, or authentic human connections can still move people everywhere,” said Liu. “That’s the power of cinema — it turns the personal into the universal. As we enter this next phase, I’m excited to expand what that means, especially across genre, scale, and collaboration.”

“Building a production company means knowing where you want to go, and choosing the right stories and people to take you there,” added Chen. “We’ve spent the past seven years building trust — with creators, with partners, and with each other. Now, we’re ready to scale. The future of Asian storytelling is global, and we’re here to be part of that shift.”

The company’s previous work includes the 2020 theatrical release “Little Big Women,” which topped the Taiwan box office that year and earned recognition at the Golden Horse Awards before landing on Netflix. More recently, “The Accidental Influencer” became an HBO Asia original in 2024, while “Dreams in Nightmares” played Berlin’s Panorama section this year. “Penguin Girl” opened last year’s Kaohsiung Film Festival.

Operating under a mission statement emphasizing female perspectives and universal connection, Each Other Films continues developing its pipeline while pursuing additional partnerships across borders.

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Pushkin Industries Revs Fall Podcast Slate; Inside David Byrne's Brain
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Pushkin Industries Revs Fall Podcast Slate; Inside David Byrne’s Brain

by jummy84 September 5, 2025
written by jummy84

Pushkin Industries is revving up a broad slate of shows for the fall as the audio studio looks to capitalize on the “network effect” among its creators and hosts that has been built up since the company’s founding in 2018.

Eric Sandler, chief strategy officer for Pushkin, discusses the company’s business vision, growth drivers and outlook in an interview on the latest episode of “Daily Variety” podcast. Among the highlights of Pushkin’s slate is a look back at “The Big Short” with author Michael Lewis. Pushkin will release the first audiobook edition of Lewis’ book, and Lewis will host a companion podcast to revisit the key events and key players of the 2008 mortgage crisis. The 2010 book led to the 2015 feature adaptation starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell and Brad Pitt.

“It speaks to the depth of the content that the creators we work with make,” Sandler says. “It’s ten years since the film, but it’s almost like a content pipeline reversal. Fifteen years ago, it was a best selling book. Ten years ago it was an Oscar winning film, and next month it’s going to be a companion podcast with an audiobook,” Sandler says. “It’s still as relevant today as it was when he wrote it.”

Sandler points to another example of what he calls Pushkin’s “network effect” to illustrate how the company uses audio as the content hub from which other media extensions sprout. Gladwell did a “Revisionist History” series “The Bomber Mafia” in 2021. It was then turned into a Pushkin audiobook. “And we did a little bit of a reversal of the pipeline, and we sold the print rights, and then it got optioned by A24 for TV-film,” Sandler says. “And so we want to create more opportunities for more storytellers to use this as a testing ground for content, really drive home really impactful stories, and be able to explore the funnel in a different way.”

David Byrne, as profiled in Variety‘s Sept. 2 issue.

Also in the episode, Jem Aswad, Variety‘s executive editor of music, details his recent sit-down with seminal musician David Byrne. As a longtime fan, Aswad brings great perspective to the profile of the former Talking Heads frontman published in Variety‘s Sept. 2 print edition and on Variety.com on Sept. 5. Meeting Byrne at his office was like getting a glimpse inside the psyche of an artist who has forged a sui generis career exploring music and storytelling in many different styles and forms, Aswad says.

Byrne’s “office is downtown New York, as you would expect. Of course, he rides his bike there. He rides his bike everywhere. It’s a loft-like space,” Aswad explains. “Walking in there is this vast floor to ceiling wall of shelves that are just loaded with stuff. And it’s sort of like looking at his brain, because it’s tons of vinyl and tons of CDs and tons of DVDs. There was a Grammy. There was an Oscar. I think there was a VMA Moonman as well. There were a couple of other things in there, but most striking were anatomical models. There were a couple of the human brain, and he actually opened the ‘American Utopia’ Broadway show, holding up a brain and talking about how our brains work.”

(Pictured top: Pushkin co-founder and host Malcolm Gladwell)

Listen to Daily Variety on iHeartPodcasts, Apple Podcasts, Variety’s YouTube Podcast channel, Amazon Music, Spotify and other podcast platforms.

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