Connecting the World through Box-Office Hits & Critically Acclaimed Films
Genesis
A decade ago, international films were largely inaccessible to Asian film lovers and movie-going audiences. With theatres hardly playing non-Hollywood films, there was no easy access to Box Office Hits, Award-Winning stories, and Critically-Acclaimed films from regions such as Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Rest of the World.
Launched in March 2012, CinemaWorld is the first and only premium pan-Asia movie service showcasing international award-winning movies, box-office hits, stars, critics’ favourites, and real human stories from around the world. Founded by ex-HBO senior executives, the multimedia entertainment company is incorporated and headquartered in Singapore.
CinemaWorld offers a 24-hour HD channel and a customised subscription video on-demand service, CinemaWorld On-Demand. In our first decade, our services have expanded rapidly across Asia, establishing a strong presence in over 20 territories and securing distribution on more than 90 platforms, including Taiwan, Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.
Our Curation
CinemaWorld convenes the masterpieces of the world's best storytellers on one platform and celebrates the diversity of human imagination and world cinema. From critically-acclaimed films to cinematic gems, CinemaWorld’s curation transcends cultures and boundaries, offering fresh, unique, and diverse storytelling.
In recent years, CinemaWorld has expanded our curation to better reflect our audience's diverse preferences. From easy-watch local box office hits to a venture into Asian cinema, we continue to enrich our curation with fresh stories that resonate with our Asian audiences.
Our Community: OUT OF FRAME
Expanding CinemaWorld beyond a premium movie service, we launched OUT OF FRAME as a community engagement initiative to explore the rich themes and ideas within our library of films. Through exclusive interviews with award-winning filmmakers, we delve into the deeper themes within their films. Additionally, we provide a platform for both emerging and established film critics, giving them the opportunity to share their voices with our Asian movie-loving community.
CinemaSHORT
Following the success of CinemaWorld, we have since expanded from feature films to short films. Grounded in CinemaWorld’s roots of entertainment and diversity of stories, CinemaSHORT brings the best bite-sized stories from promising, independent and young Asian filmmakers to a global audience anywhere on-the-go.
The first edition of the CinemaSHORT Asian ShortFilm Competition in 2023 received over 100 submissions from across 11 territories. We believe that short filmmakers should make themselves visible within the film ecosystem early on. Besides the familiar film festival route, alternative distribution platforms such as CinemaWorld is another means of exposure and monetisation that filmmakers can consider. With that in mind, CinemaWorld inked collaboration deals with 4 film schools across Asia to bring outstanding student-made films into the streaming space. We look forward to bringing more schools onboard in the coming years. In collaboration with Jakarta Film Week, an international film festival, we showcased a selection of short films from our library, featuring works from Vietnam, India, Taiwan, and beyond, on their platform.
Our Promise
As we enter the second decade of our journey, CinemaWorld will continue collaborating with our partners in all our territories to provide a premium service that caters to our core audience of film lovers. Whether it is embracing new technologies like streaming, exploring diverse content genres or formats, CinemaWorld remains committed to evolving with the times and retaining its vision of being ‘the window to see the world’. The growing prominence of Asian filmmaking talents bolsters our confidence in fostering the next generation of cinema.
With the support of industry partners and our Asian audiences, we will continue to experiment and explore new horizons in our pursuit to deliver exceptional entertainment.
“Film continues to be a powerful medium that not only entertains but shapes perspectives and influences worldviews. CinemaWorld’s curation of films from across the globe not only entertains but informs and inspires. Through our curation, we hope to entertain our audiences as well as encourage appreciation of cultural diversity and facilitate conversations on sociocultural awareness. We will continue to stay true to our vision of connecting peoples and communities.” – Suarina Chua, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of CinemaWorld
Thank you for travelling the world with us!
With Gratitude,
Team CinemaWorld
Genesis
A decade ago, international films were largely inaccessible to Asian film lovers and movie-going audiences. With theatres hardly playing non-Hollywood films, there was no easy access to Box Office Hits, Award-Winning stories, and Critically-Acclaimed films from regions such as Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Rest of the World.
Launched in March 2012, CinemaWorld is the first and only premium pan-Asia movie service showcasing international award-winning movies, box-office hits, stars, critics’ favourites, and real human stories from around the world. Founded by ex-HBO senior executives, the multimedia entertainment company is incorporated and headquartered in Singapore.
CinemaWorld offers a 24-hour HD channel and a customised subscription video on-demand service, CinemaWorld On-Demand. In our first decade, our services have expanded rapidly across Asia, establishing a strong presence in over 20 territories and securing distribution on more than 90 platforms, including Taiwan, Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.
Our Curation
CinemaWorld convenes the masterpieces of the world's best storytellers on one platform and celebrates the diversity of human imagination and world cinema. From critically-acclaimed films to cinematic gems, CinemaWorld’s curation transcends cultures and boundaries, offering fresh, unique, and diverse storytelling.
In recent years, CinemaWorld has expanded our curation to better reflect our audience's diverse preferences. From easy-watch local box office hits to a venture into Asian cinema, we continue to enrich our curation with fresh stories that resonate with our Asian audiences.
Our Community: OUT OF FRAME
Expanding CinemaWorld beyond a premium movie service, we launched OUT OF FRAME as a community engagement initiative to explore the rich themes and ideas within our library of films. Through exclusive interviews with award-winning filmmakers, we delve into the deeper themes within their films. Additionally, we provide a platform for both emerging and established film critics, giving them the opportunity to share their voices with our Asian movie-loving community.
CinemaSHORT
Following the success of CinemaWorld, we have since expanded from feature films to short films. Grounded in CinemaWorld’s roots of entertainment and diversity of stories, CinemaSHORT brings the best bite-sized stories from promising, independent and young Asian filmmakers to a global audience anywhere on-the-go.
The first edition of the CinemaSHORT Asian ShortFilm Competition in 2023 received over 100 submissions from across 11 territories. We believe that short filmmakers should make themselves visible within the film ecosystem early on. Besides the familiar film festival route, alternative distribution platforms such as CinemaWorld is another means of exposure and monetisation that filmmakers can consider. With that in mind, CinemaWorld inked collaboration deals with 4 film schools across Asia to bring outstanding student-made films into the streaming space. We look forward to bringing more schools onboard in the coming years. In collaboration with Jakarta Film Week, an international film festival, we showcased a selection of short films from our library, featuring works from Vietnam, India, Taiwan, and beyond, on their platform.
Our Promise
As we enter the second decade of our journey, CinemaWorld will continue collaborating with our partners in all our territories to provide a premium service that caters to our core audience of film lovers. Whether it is embracing new technologies like streaming, exploring diverse content genres or formats, CinemaWorld remains committed to evolving with the times and retaining its vision of being ‘the window to see the world’. The growing prominence of Asian filmmaking talents bolsters our confidence in fostering the next generation of cinema.
With the support of industry partners and our Asian audiences, we will continue to experiment and explore new horizons in our pursuit to deliver exceptional entertainment.
“Film continues to be a powerful medium that not only entertains but shapes perspectives and influences worldviews. CinemaWorld’s curation of films from across the globe not only entertains but informs and inspires. Through our curation, we hope to entertain our audiences as well as encourage appreciation of cultural diversity and facilitate conversations on sociocultural awareness. We will continue to stay true to our vision of connecting peoples and communities.” – Suarina Chua, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of CinemaWorld
Thank you for travelling the world with us!
With Gratitude,
Team CinemaWorld
