MUMBAI: At the 7th Tokyo International Film Festival Content Market (Tiffcom), recent trade fair in Japan, local film and animation firms secured close to $1 million worth of deals film at).

According to data from the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions, Hubo Productions, a Mandaluyong-based independent production house garnered the most trade inquiries among all 10 Philippine participating companies at the Festival.

Also local subtitling and dubbing company Beginnings at Twenty Plus got a lot of inquiries mostly from companies that it had already done some work for, indirectly.Most of those that inquired about Beginnings at Twenty Plus‘ services discovered that the firms they had outsourced jobs to had tapped the dubbing and subtitling firm to do the work for them. 

The full-length 3D animated film RPG Metanoia, the entry of Star Cinema, Ambient Media and Thaumatrope Animation to the Metro Manila Film Festival also generated a lot of interest among the festival attendees that included network giant Turner Entertainment Networks Asia.

Production companies from China, Malaysia and Thailand also saw the possibility of co-producing the 3D animated flick in their countries. This buyer response made RPG Metanoia the country‘s best-selling offering at Tiffcom.