Projects by Rima Das and Emma Kawawada also among 30 titles set to be pitched.
South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has unveiled the 30 titles selected for the 2023 Asian Project Market (Apm), including new works by Makbul Mubarak, Koji Fukada, Rima Das and Emma Kawawada.
The film financing event, which runs as part of Biff’s Asian Contents and Film Market, will take place from October 7-10 and comprises projects by directors who have made at least one short or full-length feature as well as producers who have been involved with at least one feature. They will conduct four...
South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has unveiled the 30 titles selected for the 2023 Asian Project Market (Apm), including new works by Makbul Mubarak, Koji Fukada, Rima Das and Emma Kawawada.
The film financing event, which runs as part of Biff’s Asian Contents and Film Market, will take place from October 7-10 and comprises projects by directors who have made at least one short or full-length feature as well as producers who have been involved with at least one feature. They will conduct four...
- 8/3/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Busan International Film Festival has announced the 30 projects selected for this year’s Asian Project Market (Apm), including new works from leading Asian filmmakers such as Japan’s Koji Fukada, Indonesia’s Makbul Mubarak and India’s Rima Das.
Fukada, whose previous films have premiered at Cannes and Venice (Love Life), will present Japan-France co-production Nagi Notes, produced by Osanai Terutaro.
Mubarak, whose Autobiography premiered at last year’s Venice before embarking on an awards haul across Asia, is bringing Watch It Burn, produced by Indonesia’s Yulia Evina Bhara, one of the producers on this year’s Cannes Critics Week winner Tiger Stripes.
Das is a Busan regular who has also had films play in Toronto and Berlin (Bulbul Can Sing). She will present Malti My Love, which the self-taught filmmaker will also produce, just as she has produced, written,...
Fukada, whose previous films have premiered at Cannes and Venice (Love Life), will present Japan-France co-production Nagi Notes, produced by Osanai Terutaro.
Mubarak, whose Autobiography premiered at last year’s Venice before embarking on an awards haul across Asia, is bringing Watch It Burn, produced by Indonesia’s Yulia Evina Bhara, one of the producers on this year’s Cannes Critics Week winner Tiger Stripes.
Das is a Busan regular who has also had films play in Toronto and Berlin (Bulbul Can Sing). She will present Malti My Love, which the self-taught filmmaker will also produce, just as she has produced, written,...
- 8/3/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
The Busan film festival’s Asian Project Market is set to welcome several of the region’s top auteurs either as producers or prospective directors at its next edition in October.
Apm organizers Thursday unveiled 30 projects to be presented during a four-day round of one-on-one meetings and pitching sessions.
India’s Rima Das (“Tora’s Husband”) will pitch “Malti My Love.” Japan’s Fukada Koji will pitch “Nagi Notes.” Indonesia’s Makbul Mubarak (“Autobiography”) will pitch “Watch It Burn.”
Among the successful producers adding their weight to Apm contenders are: Patrick Mao Huang selling Peter Ho’s project “Appetite for Desire”; Jeremy Chua, pitching Rafael Manuel’s “Filipinana”; Ichiyama Shozo (“Ash Is Puirest White”) pitching Song Fang’s Japan-China collaboration “Full Moon”; Fran Borgia pitching Aakash Chhabra’s “I’ll Smile in September”; and Tan Chui Mui (“Barbarian Invasion”) pitching Jian Xiaoshuan’s “To Kill A Mongolian Horse.”
The project...
Apm organizers Thursday unveiled 30 projects to be presented during a four-day round of one-on-one meetings and pitching sessions.
India’s Rima Das (“Tora’s Husband”) will pitch “Malti My Love.” Japan’s Fukada Koji will pitch “Nagi Notes.” Indonesia’s Makbul Mubarak (“Autobiography”) will pitch “Watch It Burn.”
Among the successful producers adding their weight to Apm contenders are: Patrick Mao Huang selling Peter Ho’s project “Appetite for Desire”; Jeremy Chua, pitching Rafael Manuel’s “Filipinana”; Ichiyama Shozo (“Ash Is Puirest White”) pitching Song Fang’s Japan-China collaboration “Full Moon”; Fran Borgia pitching Aakash Chhabra’s “I’ll Smile in September”; and Tan Chui Mui (“Barbarian Invasion”) pitching Jian Xiaoshuan’s “To Kill A Mongolian Horse.”
The project...
- 8/3/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
A city enjoying a spectacular growth spur and a metropolis dying out as we speak. A star looking for a way out from a deadly trap and a teenager determined to have a say in her own future. Japanese feel-good movies and terrifying horrors. As always, Five Flavours offers a full spectrum of moods, emotions, and themes. We announce the complete program of the Festival and kick off tickets sales!
Five Flavours Asian Film Festival is the annual review of the best cinema from East, Southeast, and South Asia organized in Poland. Since 2006, it presents the premieres of the newest, carefully selected films from the region, the classics from Asian archives, retrospectives of selected filmmakers, and reviews of national cinemas.
This year’s selection includes 39 meticulously chosen films, 30 of which will be available online, on the territory of Poland only. After the success of last year’s hybrid edition, Five...
Five Flavours Asian Film Festival is the annual review of the best cinema from East, Southeast, and South Asia organized in Poland. Since 2006, it presents the premieres of the newest, carefully selected films from the region, the classics from Asian archives, retrospectives of selected filmmakers, and reviews of national cinemas.
This year’s selection includes 39 meticulously chosen films, 30 of which will be available online, on the territory of Poland only. After the success of last year’s hybrid edition, Five...
- 10/26/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The Fund is aimed at co-productions between European and international partners.
Vietnamese filmmaker Truong Minh Quy has been awarded the TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) co-production fund award for his upcoming feature Viet And Nam.
The award consists of €50,000, which will be allocated to the European production company working on the film – Germany’s Scarlet Visions – as well as a series of expert consultancies with people in various areas of filmmaking. Experts include UK art director Fleur Whitlock and the Emmy-winning production designer of 2006’s Jane Eyre, Grenville Horner.
Viet And Nam follows a couple who both work as miners, as one of...
Vietnamese filmmaker Truong Minh Quy has been awarded the TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) co-production fund award for his upcoming feature Viet And Nam.
The award consists of €50,000, which will be allocated to the European production company working on the film – Germany’s Scarlet Visions – as well as a series of expert consultancies with people in various areas of filmmaking. Experts include UK art director Fleur Whitlock and the Emmy-winning production designer of 2006’s Jane Eyre, Grenville Horner.
Viet And Nam follows a couple who both work as miners, as one of...
- 9/27/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The Fund is aimed at co-productions between European and international partners.
Vietnamese filmmaker Trương Minh Quý has been awarded the TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) co-production fund for his upcoming feature Viet And Nam.
The award consists of €50,000, which will be allocated to the European production company working on the film - Germany’s Scarlet Visions, as well as a series of expert consultancies with people in various areas of filmmaking. Experts include UK art director Fleur Whitlock and the Emmy-winning production designer of 2006’s Jane Eyre, Grenville Horner.
Viet And Nam follows a couple who both work as miners, as one of...
Vietnamese filmmaker Trương Minh Quý has been awarded the TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) co-production fund for his upcoming feature Viet And Nam.
The award consists of €50,000, which will be allocated to the European production company working on the film - Germany’s Scarlet Visions, as well as a series of expert consultancies with people in various areas of filmmaking. Experts include UK art director Fleur Whitlock and the Emmy-winning production designer of 2006’s Jane Eyre, Grenville Horner.
Viet And Nam follows a couple who both work as miners, as one of...
- 9/27/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Funding
The Busan International Film Festival‘s popular Asian Cinema Fund programs are resuming after a two-year pause due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Applications for the post-production fund and script development fund are open from March 23 to Apr. 20, while the Asian network of documentary fund is open for applications from Apr. 25–May 20.
For the post-production fund, applying feature film projects should complete editing by May 2022 and the directors must be of Asian nationality. The grant consists of in-kind support for post-production, including Di, sound mixing, english subtitling and Dcp. The completed film must have its world premiere at the 27th Busan festival later this year.
For the script development fund, feature film projects of first or second-time directors from Asia are eligible and carries a cash grant of up to KRW10 million.
For the Asian network of documentary fund, feature-length documentary projects by Korean and Asian directors at all production stages,...
The Busan International Film Festival‘s popular Asian Cinema Fund programs are resuming after a two-year pause due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Applications for the post-production fund and script development fund are open from March 23 to Apr. 20, while the Asian network of documentary fund is open for applications from Apr. 25–May 20.
For the post-production fund, applying feature film projects should complete editing by May 2022 and the directors must be of Asian nationality. The grant consists of in-kind support for post-production, including Di, sound mixing, english subtitling and Dcp. The completed film must have its world premiere at the 27th Busan festival later this year.
For the script development fund, feature film projects of first or second-time directors from Asia are eligible and carries a cash grant of up to KRW10 million.
For the Asian network of documentary fund, feature-length documentary projects by Korean and Asian directors at all production stages,...
- 3/25/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
First two features are Berlinale Forum titles ’Memoryland’ and documentary ’Scala’.
Leading Thai production outfit Diversion is expanding into sales with a debut slate at the EFM headed by Kim Quy Bui’s Memoryland and Ananta Thitanat’s documentary Scala, both playing in the Forum at the Berlinale.
Memoryland, which explores death and spirituality in contemporary Vietnam, premiered in Busan’s New Currents competition, while Scala is an ode to Bangkok’s last standalone cinema, which was demolished last year.
The line-up also includes feature documentary Scene Unseen by the late Singaporean director Abdul Nizam and friends, which premiered at...
Leading Thai production outfit Diversion is expanding into sales with a debut slate at the EFM headed by Kim Quy Bui’s Memoryland and Ananta Thitanat’s documentary Scala, both playing in the Forum at the Berlinale.
Memoryland, which explores death and spirituality in contemporary Vietnam, premiered in Busan’s New Currents competition, while Scala is an ode to Bangkok’s last standalone cinema, which was demolished last year.
The line-up also includes feature documentary Scene Unseen by the late Singaporean director Abdul Nizam and friends, which premiered at...
- 2/11/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
First two tiitles are Berlinale Forum titles Memoryland and feature doc Scala.
Leading Thai production outfit Diversion is expanding into sales with a debut slate at the EFM headed by Kim Quy Bui’s Memoryland and Ananta Thitanat’s documentary Scala, both playing in the Forum at the Berlinale.
Memoryland, which explores death and spirituality in contemporary Vietnam, premiered in Busan’s New Currents competition, while Scala is an ode to Bangkok’s last standalone cinema, which was demolished last year.
The line-up also includes feature documentary Scene Unseen by the late Singaporean director Abdul Nizam and friends, which premiered...
Leading Thai production outfit Diversion is expanding into sales with a debut slate at the EFM headed by Kim Quy Bui’s Memoryland and Ananta Thitanat’s documentary Scala, both playing in the Forum at the Berlinale.
Memoryland, which explores death and spirituality in contemporary Vietnam, premiered in Busan’s New Currents competition, while Scala is an ode to Bangkok’s last standalone cinema, which was demolished last year.
The line-up also includes feature documentary Scene Unseen by the late Singaporean director Abdul Nizam and friends, which premiered...
- 2/11/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
IndieWire exclusively announces the lineup for the Museum of Modern Art’s 2022 Doc Fortnight, its annual series of documentary screenings at the New York museum. The festival runs from February 23 to March 10, and the lineup focuses heavily on environmental issues. This year’s edition of Doc Fortnight will be a hybrid festival, with 19 features and 10 short documentaries screening in the museum’s Titus Theater, with a selection of films available online via MoMA’s Virtual Cinema streaming platform.
The festival is set to open with “Bunker,” Jenny Perlin’s documentary about men living in military bunkers awaiting the end of the world. The official synopsis describes the film as “a timely reflection on ideas of survival and shelter among those preparing for the disintegration of society from a hundred feet underground.” The closing night selection is “The United States of America,” directed by James Benning. The documentary finds the filmmaking...
The festival is set to open with “Bunker,” Jenny Perlin’s documentary about men living in military bunkers awaiting the end of the world. The official synopsis describes the film as “a timely reflection on ideas of survival and shelter among those preparing for the disintegration of society from a hundred feet underground.” The closing night selection is “The United States of America,” directed by James Benning. The documentary finds the filmmaking...
- 2/10/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
PoetBerlinale have announced the first 62 titles selected for the 72nd edition of their festival, set to take place physically from February 10 — 20.FORUMAfterwater (Dane Komljen)Poet (Darezhan Omirbayev)The Middle AgesEurope (Philip Scheffner)A Flower in the Mouth (Éric Baudelaire)Memoryland (Kim Quy Bui)My Two Voices (Lina Rodriguez)Nuclear Family (Erin Wilkerson, Travis Wilkerson)Super Natural (Jorge Jácome)The United States of America (James Benning)Forum EXPANDEDDragon Tooth (Rafael Castanheira Parrode)Home When You Return (Carl Elsaesser)Jail Bird in a Peacock Chair (James Gregory Atkinson)Sol in the Dark (Mawena Yehouessi)vs (Lydia Nsiah)PANORAMATalking About the Weather (Annika Pinske)The Apartment with Two Women (Kim Se-in)Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Nina Menkes)Swing Ride (Chiara Bellosi)Dreaming WallsKlondike (Maryna Er Gorbach)A Love Song (Max Walker-Silverman)Myanmar Diaries (The Myanmar Film Collective)Into My Name (Nicolò Bassetti)Nelly & Nadine (Magnus Gertten)We, Students! (Rafiki Fariala)Until Tomorrow (Ali Asgari...
- 12/15/2021
- MUBI
Biff also announced 12 world premiere titles for its Korean Cinema Today - Vision section.
The 26th Busan International Film Festival has revealed 11 selections for its New Currents main competition, including Korea-Japan co-production Missing, directed by Katayama Shinzo, a former assistant director to Bong Joon Ho.
The New Currents competition is made up of directors’ first and second features. They will be eligible to win the two New Currents Awards, the New Currents Audience Award, the Netpac Award, and the Fipresci Award.
Katayama worked with Bong on his installment for the omnibus film Tokyo! (2008) and Mother (2009), both of which went to Cannes.
The 26th Busan International Film Festival has revealed 11 selections for its New Currents main competition, including Korea-Japan co-production Missing, directed by Katayama Shinzo, a former assistant director to Bong Joon Ho.
The New Currents competition is made up of directors’ first and second features. They will be eligible to win the two New Currents Awards, the New Currents Audience Award, the Netpac Award, and the Fipresci Award.
Katayama worked with Bong on his installment for the omnibus film Tokyo! (2008) and Mother (2009), both of which went to Cannes.
- 9/1/2021
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Two films each from India, Iran and South Korea feature in the eleven-title New Currents competition that is at the heart of the Busan International Film Festival.
The festival this year will be operated as an in-person event Oct 6-15, 2021. But with Korea’s ongoing restrictions on cross-border travel, it may be a less international gathering.
From India, Natesh Hegde’s “Pedro” depicts the difficult situation of an electrician living in a forest village and the forest’s cinematic transformation. “House of Time,” co-directed by Rajdeep Paul and Sarmistha Maiti, is a suspense story of a doctor who is locked in a house that is occupied by three women.
Two films were selected from Iran. Directed by Arvand Dashtaray, “The Absent Director” depicts a theater director haplessly attempting to conduct a rehearsal for a play through video calls. The film is a unique piece of work that is shot in single-take style without cuts.
The festival this year will be operated as an in-person event Oct 6-15, 2021. But with Korea’s ongoing restrictions on cross-border travel, it may be a less international gathering.
From India, Natesh Hegde’s “Pedro” depicts the difficult situation of an electrician living in a forest village and the forest’s cinematic transformation. “House of Time,” co-directed by Rajdeep Paul and Sarmistha Maiti, is a suspense story of a doctor who is locked in a house that is occupied by three women.
Two films were selected from Iran. Directed by Arvand Dashtaray, “The Absent Director” depicts a theater director haplessly attempting to conduct a rehearsal for a play through video calls. The film is a unique piece of work that is shot in single-take style without cuts.
- 9/1/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
A number of years before “Rom”, in 2014, there was another Vietnamese film that screened while being banned in its home country, although most probably for completely different reasons (the Vietnamense Censorship never gave out the reasons for banning the film). “The Inseminator” focuses on the tribes living in the remote mountains of Vietnam, presenting a story that is both brutally harsh but also beautifully coated in magical realism and modern art.
“The Inseminator” is screening in Locarno Film Festival
The story revolves around a family of three. Mr Boi, the father, Tu, his beautiful adult daughter, and Ngo, the 16-yeal-old who is mentally handicapped to the point he cannot even clean himself properly. However, the three of them have managed to achieve a level of balance, with the father and daughter taking care of the land, the house and the boy, despite the fact that there is not even electricity in the area.
“The Inseminator” is screening in Locarno Film Festival
The story revolves around a family of three. Mr Boi, the father, Tu, his beautiful adult daughter, and Ngo, the 16-yeal-old who is mentally handicapped to the point he cannot even clean himself properly. However, the three of them have managed to achieve a level of balance, with the father and daughter taking care of the land, the house and the boy, despite the fact that there is not even electricity in the area.
- 8/8/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Bangkok-based fund is handing out four production and one post-production grants in autumn 2019 funding round.
New projects from Indonesia’s Edwin and the Philippines’ Lav Diaz are among the five grant recipients in Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures’ latest funding round.
Purin Pictures announced that four projects – three fiction and one documentary – would receive production grants, while one fiction project would receive a post-production grant of $50,000 in post-production services.
The four production grant recipients include Edwin’s Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, Laz Diaz’s When The Waves Are Gone, Indonesian filmmaker Makbul Mubarak’s Autobiography and Children Of The Mist,...
New projects from Indonesia’s Edwin and the Philippines’ Lav Diaz are among the five grant recipients in Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures’ latest funding round.
Purin Pictures announced that four projects – three fiction and one documentary – would receive production grants, while one fiction project would receive a post-production grant of $50,000 in post-production services.
The four production grant recipients include Edwin’s Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, Laz Diaz’s When The Waves Are Gone, Indonesian filmmaker Makbul Mubarak’s Autobiography and Children Of The Mist,...
- 11/1/2019
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Bangkok-based fund is handing out four production and one post-production grants in autumn 2019 funding round.
New projects from Indonesia’s Edwin and the Philippines’ Lav Diaz are among the five grant recipients in Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures’ latest funding round.
Purin Pictures announced that four projects – three fiction and one documentary – would receive production grants, while one fiction project would receive a post-production grant of $50,000 in post-production services.
The four production grant recipients include Edwin’s Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, Laz Diaz’s When The Waves Are Gone, Indonesian filmmaker Makbul Mubarak’s Autobiography and Children Of The Mist,...
New projects from Indonesia’s Edwin and the Philippines’ Lav Diaz are among the five grant recipients in Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures’ latest funding round.
Purin Pictures announced that four projects – three fiction and one documentary – would receive production grants, while one fiction project would receive a post-production grant of $50,000 in post-production services.
The four production grant recipients include Edwin’s Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, Laz Diaz’s When The Waves Are Gone, Indonesian filmmaker Makbul Mubarak’s Autobiography and Children Of The Mist,...
- 11/1/2019
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
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