Asia makes more films than any other continent on earth — and until Siamese, the work was being traded everywhere except here. We were going to Cannes for our co-productions, to Berlin for our financing, to AFM for our distribution, to Busan for our talent. Five flights to do one deal.

Bangkok sits at the geographic centre of the world’s largest filmmaking continent. It speaks the languages of its trade. It runs on the timezones of its partners. The infrastructure was already here. The Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre is forty minutes from Suvarnabhumi. The crews are world-class. The audiences are growing faster than anywhere in the western world.

Siamese is the answer to a question that should have been asked twenty years ago: where do Asian filmmakers sell, finance, and partner — at home?

Talent stays in the room.

Master the Craft is a working programme — three days of intensive sessions with cinematographers, editors, sound designers and writers who actually shipped this year. No rapper-hosted fireside chats.