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The Asian Project Market (APM), which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, will return as an in-person occasion at the Busan Convention and Exhibition Center (Bexco) from October 9 to 11.
Among the 29 projects decided for APM this year, two are in the works: Gaspar through Indonesian director Yosep Anggi Noen and Last Shadow At First Light through Singaporean Nicole Midori Woodford. Both projects are in post-production.
The programming also includes 3 allocations supported through script progression grants through the Asian Cinema Fund (ACF), which reopened its investment initiative this year after the pandemic: In The Land Of Brothers through Iranian director Raha Amirfazli, Life I Stole through Malaysian director Putri Purnama Sugua, and Smart City through Rohin Raveendran Nair from India. Each grant won a $7,000 grant (krw 10 million) and an invitation to the MPA.
Screen presents the titles here.
Gaspar (Indonesia) Real. Yosep Anggi NoenProds. Yulia Evina Bhara, Cristian ImanuellProduction companies: KawanKawan Media, VisinemaBudget: $850,000 ($800,000 guaranteed)
Adapted from an award-winning novel by Sabda Armandio, Gaspar centers on a detective in a short- to long-term apocalyptic Indonesia where humanity is suffering. “A detective is an attractive task because the task does not exist in Indonesia,” says the director. Yosep Anggi Noen. ” Therefore, I can create a new total global that is dark. “
Yosep cites Alfonso Cuarón’s Children Of Men as a touchstone for Gaspar, who won a pre-production grant from Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. architecture with a strong touch of dystopia. The cast is headed by Reza Rahadian, Shenina Cinnamon and Laura Basuki, winner of this year’s Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Supporting Actor for Before, Now
Indonesian Yosep already directed Solo, Solitude and The Science Of Fictions, which was made in Locarno in 2019. Both films were also produced by Yulia Evina Bhara, whose credits come with Autobiography, who this year starred in the Venice Horizons section.
Contact Yulia Evina Bhara, producer
Last Shadow At First Light (Sing-Jap-Slovenia) Real. Nicole Midori WoodfordProds. Jeremy Chua, Shozo Ichiyama, Bostjan Virc, Tomohiko SekiProduction companies: Potocol, Fourier Films, Studio Virc, cogitoworksBudget: $700,000 ($600,000 insured)
This first feature film follows a 16-year-old woman from Singapore, who embarks on a roadside vacation in search of her mother in northeastern Japan after the tsunami. “I’m curious about the concepts of hidden trauma and survival skills,” says Singaporean director Nicole Midori Woodford, whose defeated Japanese grandmother shaved a lot with the World War II atomic bomb.
Prior to the pandemic, Woodford and his team went on 3 study and reconnaissance trips to northeastern Japan. “This state of an entire Earth in transition represents the weight of the afterlife as opposed to the promise of the future,” says manufacturer Jeremy Chua, whose credits come with Bui Thac Chuyen’s Glorious Ashes, which premieres this year at the Tokyo International Film Festival’s main festival. Filmed through Hideho Urata (Plan 75), Last Shadow At First Light is in post-production with a cast headed by Masatoshi Nagase. (Sweet Bean), Mariko Tsutsui (A Girl Missing), Peter Yu (A Land Imagined) and newcomer Mihaya Shirata. Sponsors come with Purple Tree Content, Hello Group, Singapore Film Commission and Slovenian Film Centre.
Woodford has been directing shorts for more than a decade and directed an episode of the second season of HBO’s Folklore (titled “The Excursion”) that premiered in Tokyo last year.
Contact Ryo Ebe, 108 media
In the Land of the Brothers (Fr-Iran-Neth)Dir. Raha AmirfazliProds. Adrien Barrouillet, Raha Amirfazli, Alireza Ghasemi, Frank HoeveProduction companies: Furyo Films, The Sixth Side, Baldr FilmBudget: $550,000 ($340,000 guaranteed)
This first feature film by Iranian director Raha Amirfazli focuses on the difficulties faced by Afghan refugees in Iran. Told in 4 chapters, the film takes place in 4 cities and covers 4 periods from 1991 to 2020. Amirfazli will feature non-professional actors from Afghanistan. Hazara community.
“It’s about the intimacy of family circles and the pain caused by external pressures and discrimination,” says Amirfazli. scale. “
French manufacturer Adrien Barrouillet says foreign co-productions with Iran are complicated in the current climate. However, the task won from Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, CICLIC, the Netherlands Film Fund, the Asian Film Fund and Iran’s personal investment. Amirfazli, who has directed several short films, is reading for an MFA at New York University.
Contact Furyo Films
The Life I Stole (Malaysia) Real. Putri Purnama SuguaProd. Tan Cher KianProporting companies: Dream To Fly, Siring Siring ProductionBudget: $300,000
Malaysian filmmaker Putri Purnama Sugua grew up in the undocumented network of Sabah, east Malaysia, which has been at the center of her short fiction and documentaries. a challenge of humanity that has been swept under the rug amid the complexities and complexities of the political and strength struggle between parties with vested interests. “
The story follows an undocumented 11-year-old boy who needs to live his best life with the woman of his dreams, only to be forced to steal his identity. The characters will be played by genuine undocumented children. Asian Cinema Fund and won a sponsored prize money through National Film Development Corporation Malaysia for the most promising work in the Next New Wave workshop.
Producer Tan Cher Kian has worked on two of Sugua’s award-winning short films, Here I Am and The House Without A Ground.
Contact Tan Cher Kian, Producer
Smart City (India)Dir. Rohin Raveendran NairProd. Vikramaditya MotwaneStudio: Andolan FilmsBudget: $750. 000
Based on his own intellectual trauma suffered by the Covid-19 lockdown, Indian director Rohin Raveendran Nair describes his first feature film as “an emotionally dense survival horror”. It’s about a young mall manager looking to rekindle his connection to humanity while locked in a small apartment in a Mumbai enclosed skyscraper.
“I decided to paint my pandemic experience through the lens of horror because at that moment I began to recognize the possibility of horror even in the most common everyday objects,” Nair says, adding that even other people are likely to lose their attention. intellectual balance. He cites as an example a couple who murdered their two daughters in early 2021 in southern India.
Smart City will be in the same vein as Nair’s 2024, a 60-minute dystopian mystery about a fatal virus wreaking havoc in Mumbai. This movie was shot with a OnePlus cell phone and can now be seen at Disney Hotstar in India.
Vikramaditya Motwane produces Andolan Films, which also produced 2024 and Nair’s award-winning LGBTQ short film, The Booth. Motwane is the showrunner and co-director of Sacred Games, Netflix’s first Indian original series, on which Nair served as head of the unit at the moment.
Contact Arya Menon, Andolan Films
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