The ever-busy Japanese character actor Tadanobu Asano — currently having a moment as one of the stars of Disney’s hit samurai series Shōgun — has joined the cast of Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s upcoming culinary thriller Morte Cucina. The actor and director last collaborated two decades ago on the romantic crime film Last Life in the Universe (2003), which was Thailand’s official submission to the Oscars that year and won Asano the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival.
Set in contemporary Bangkok, Morte Cucina follows a talented young female chef named Sao who has a chance encounter with a man who sexually abused her when she was a teen. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the film’s logline reads.
The project’s producers are keeping the nature of Asano’s role under wraps for now,...
Set in contemporary Bangkok, Morte Cucina follows a talented young female chef named Sao who has a chance encounter with a man who sexually abused her when she was a teen. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the film’s logline reads.
The project’s producers are keeping the nature of Asano’s role under wraps for now,...
- 3/26/2024
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: It’s just another day in Manila’s Riverbanks Center studios and a stand-in actor is beating off a group of gangsters with an outsized prosthetic penis – thankfully one that is wrapped in a tasteful chiffon scarf.
The actor he’s standing in for, Enrique Gil, is one of the biggest heartthrobs in the Philippines’ film and TV industries and it’s safe to say he’s taking a slight departure with his most recent project, I Am Not Big Bird, which was mostly filmed in Thailand with some interiors in Manila.
Produced by Anima Studios and Abs-cbn’s Black Sheep, the film is about a 30-something virgin (Gil) who, dejected after his girlfriend turns down his marriage proposal, heads off on holiday to Thailand with a bunch of friends. Once there, a peculiar chain of events ensues when Gil’s character is mistaken for a famous Thai porn star,...
The actor he’s standing in for, Enrique Gil, is one of the biggest heartthrobs in the Philippines’ film and TV industries and it’s safe to say he’s taking a slight departure with his most recent project, I Am Not Big Bird, which was mostly filmed in Thailand with some interiors in Manila.
Produced by Anima Studios and Abs-cbn’s Black Sheep, the film is about a 30-something virgin (Gil) who, dejected after his girlfriend turns down his marriage proposal, heads off on holiday to Thailand with a bunch of friends. Once there, a peculiar chain of events ensues when Gil’s character is mistaken for a famous Thai porn star,...
- 10/5/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
In the modern age, one of the more impactful and topical issues found in the consciousness of pop culture is self-identity and what a person's identity means to them. Being lost in a malaise of social media, online ads, and a culture concerned with providing a marketable identity for easy branding, it's possible for this factor to be a crippling issue for youths fighting to keep themselves afloat while they attempt to navigate the world around them. Thai directors Rasiguet Sookkarn and Kongdej Jaturanrasmee have decided to explore this concept in their new film “Faces of Anne,” having its North American premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival.
Faces of Anne is screening at New York Asian Film Festival Check also this interview Interview with Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Jennis Oprasert and Soros Sukhum: The Question Is, “Can We Own Our Life Completely?”
Overall, “Faces of Anne” is a solid enough genre effort.
Faces of Anne is screening at New York Asian Film Festival Check also this interview Interview with Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Jennis Oprasert and Soros Sukhum: The Question Is, “Can We Own Our Life Completely?”
Overall, “Faces of Anne” is a solid enough genre effort.
- 7/29/2023
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Acclaimed Thai auteur Pen-ek Ratanaruang is reteaming with veteran, Asia-based cinematographer Christopher Doyle for a subversive psychological thriller set in the colorful world of Thai cuisine.
Bangkok-set film Morte Cucina follows a talented young female chef named Sao who has a chance encounter with a man who sexually abused her when she was a teen. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the film’s logline reads.
Morte Cucina is co-written by Pen-ek and Kongdej Jaturanrasamee (Hunger, Faces of Anne). It will be Pen-ek’s first feature since his noir crime thriller Samui Song, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2017. The project reunites the Thai auteur and Doyle for the first time since their 2003 project together, Last Life in the Universe, which was Thailand’s official submission to the Oscars that year, and also won its Japanese star,...
Bangkok-set film Morte Cucina follows a talented young female chef named Sao who has a chance encounter with a man who sexually abused her when she was a teen. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the film’s logline reads.
Morte Cucina is co-written by Pen-ek and Kongdej Jaturanrasamee (Hunger, Faces of Anne). It will be Pen-ek’s first feature since his noir crime thriller Samui Song, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2017. The project reunites the Thai auteur and Doyle for the first time since their 2003 project together, Last Life in the Universe, which was Thailand’s official submission to the Oscars that year, and also won its Japanese star,...
- 6/1/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
French independent producer Haut Les Mains has come on board “A Useful Ghost,” a film project that is both topical and supernatural. The deal was announced on the margins of the Cannes Film Festival and its accompanying rights market.
“A Useful Ghost” follows March and Nat, a happily married couple, and their seven-year-old son Dot. Nat dies of respiratory disease caused by air pollution. A saddened March is worried that the same fate will befall his son, who gradually develops similar symptoms. Nat then returns as a ghost haunting the house vacuum cleaner to try and suck up the dust hurting her son. She also longs to be accepted as part of society and intends to prove that by getting rid of the less useful ghosts.
The film is produced by Cattleya Paosrijaroen and Soros Sukhum (Netflix film “Hunger”) for Bangkok-based 185 Films Co. Last year Singapore-based art house producer...
“A Useful Ghost” follows March and Nat, a happily married couple, and their seven-year-old son Dot. Nat dies of respiratory disease caused by air pollution. A saddened March is worried that the same fate will befall his son, who gradually develops similar symptoms. Nat then returns as a ghost haunting the house vacuum cleaner to try and suck up the dust hurting her son. She also longs to be accepted as part of society and intends to prove that by getting rid of the less useful ghosts.
The film is produced by Cattleya Paosrijaroen and Soros Sukhum (Netflix film “Hunger”) for Bangkok-based 185 Films Co. Last year Singapore-based art house producer...
- 5/24/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) is excited to kickstart its 34th edition, which will run from the 30th November to 10th of December, with a call for entries for feature films from Asia, and short films from Southeast Asia, until the 6th of August. Applications for its Film Academy programmes, the Asian Producers Network, Southeast Asian Film Lab, and Youth Critics Programme are also open to industry professionals and aspiring film writers.
Screen your film alongside the region’s best
In 2022, Sgiff saw more than 100 film titles from 55 countries over 11 days of film screenings, alongside a slate of off-screen programmes that celebrated and showcased the best of independent cinema from the region.
“Now in its 34th edition, Sgiff continues to be a key arts event that showcases the best of global independent cinema to local audiences. Cinematic talent from Singapore, Southeast Asia and the wider Asian region is going...
Screen your film alongside the region’s best
In 2022, Sgiff saw more than 100 film titles from 55 countries over 11 days of film screenings, alongside a slate of off-screen programmes that celebrated and showcased the best of independent cinema from the region.
“Now in its 34th edition, Sgiff continues to be a key arts event that showcases the best of global independent cinema to local audiences. Cinematic talent from Singapore, Southeast Asia and the wider Asian region is going...
- 5/12/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Netflix has revealed the first images from “Hunger,” an upcoming Thai drama film in which a woman in her twenties chases her dreams in the unsavory world of fine dining.
The film stars Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, locally known as ‘Aokbab’ and internationally recognized as the star of “Bad Genius,” in the lead role. She plays alongside Gunn Svasti Na Ayudhya (“Diary of Tootsies”) as the sous-chef who gives her a break and Nopachai ‘Peter’ Jayanama as her ingenious and intolerant rival.
Directed by Sitisiri Mongkolsiri and produced by Kongdej Jaturanrasame and Soros Sukhum (“Memoria”) through Song Sound Productions, the show is expected to be uploaded in April.
“Hunger” is part of a wider menu of Thai-language films and series content set out by Netflix late last year. Other Thai contnet in the pipeline included writer-director Prueksa Amaruji’s dark comedy film “Lost Lotteries”; veteran director Wisit Sasanatieng (“Tears of the Black...
The film stars Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, locally known as ‘Aokbab’ and internationally recognized as the star of “Bad Genius,” in the lead role. She plays alongside Gunn Svasti Na Ayudhya (“Diary of Tootsies”) as the sous-chef who gives her a break and Nopachai ‘Peter’ Jayanama as her ingenious and intolerant rival.
Directed by Sitisiri Mongkolsiri and produced by Kongdej Jaturanrasame and Soros Sukhum (“Memoria”) through Song Sound Productions, the show is expected to be uploaded in April.
“Hunger” is part of a wider menu of Thai-language films and series content set out by Netflix late last year. Other Thai contnet in the pipeline included writer-director Prueksa Amaruji’s dark comedy film “Lost Lotteries”; veteran director Wisit Sasanatieng (“Tears of the Black...
- 2/1/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Recently premiering in Locarno, Thai filmmaker Sorayos Prapapan’s debut feature “Arnold is a Model Student” is a very interesting narrative amalgam, as it combines his own experiences from attending school (there is even a scene with a same named student repeating the multiplication element as a punishment inside a teacher’s office) with the recent Bad Student movement, and an approach that moves more towards the comedy/satire despite the dramatic basis of the story.
“Arnold is a Model Student“ is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The titular Arnold is a student in the last class of high school, who stands out not just for his shaved hair, but also for having studied in the US for a year and winning a gold medal at the Mathematics Olympiad, something that has deemed him a model student in the eyes of the school administration. His treatment as a...
“Arnold is a Model Student“ is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The titular Arnold is a student in the last class of high school, who stands out not just for his shaved hair, but also for having studied in the US for a year and winning a gold medal at the Mathematics Olympiad, something that has deemed him a model student in the eyes of the school administration. His treatment as a...
- 11/18/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
‘Fragments Of The Last Will’ opened 35th edition.
The 35th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) has launched with its first full-scale red carpet in three years.
At the Takarazuka Theatre in the festival’s new main area of Hibiya-Yurakucho-Ginza, relocated last year from Roppongi, international competition jury president and US director Julie Taymor spoke from the red carpet: “It’s an incredible time now that – since Covid – you’re able to have many more international guests, which is so critical at a time in the world which is so divisive.”
TIFF was only able to host eight foreign guests last year,...
The 35th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) has launched with its first full-scale red carpet in three years.
At the Takarazuka Theatre in the festival’s new main area of Hibiya-Yurakucho-Ginza, relocated last year from Roppongi, international competition jury president and US director Julie Taymor spoke from the red carpet: “It’s an incredible time now that – since Covid – you’re able to have many more international guests, which is so critical at a time in the world which is so divisive.”
TIFF was only able to host eight foreign guests last year,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Four features and two series include the latest from award-winning director Wisit Sasanatieng.
Netflix has announced its first ever slate of original features and series from Thailand, directed by a string of award-winning filmmakers and produced by powerhouse studios Gdh and Gmm.
The films include The Murderer, directed by Wisit Sasanatieng, which marks the streaming platform’s first feature in the northeastern Thai dialect. It stars popular Thai comedian Mum Jokmok as a policeman who investigates whether an English man has killed his Thai in-laws.
Wisit is known for titles such as Western homage Tears Of The Black Tiger, which...
Netflix has announced its first ever slate of original features and series from Thailand, directed by a string of award-winning filmmakers and produced by powerhouse studios Gdh and Gmm.
The films include The Murderer, directed by Wisit Sasanatieng, which marks the streaming platform’s first feature in the northeastern Thai dialect. It stars popular Thai comedian Mum Jokmok as a policeman who investigates whether an English man has killed his Thai in-laws.
Wisit is known for titles such as Western homage Tears Of The Black Tiger, which...
- 10/11/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
International streaming company Netflix has unveiled six new titles representing its first wide-ranging slate of content from Thailand.
Its four films and two series span the comedy, suspense and comedy drama genres and hail from six different local production firms – Gmm Studios, International, Gdh, Song Sound Productions, Transformation Films, 18 Tanwa and Jungka Bangkok. Significantly, too, they are sourced from established directors or producers.
Writer-director Prueksa Amaruji’s dark comedy film “Lost Lotteries” is produced by Ekachai Uekrongtham and will stream from mid-November.
Writer-producer Kongdej Jaturanrasmee and veteran indie producer Soros Sukhum are behind director Sitisiri Mongkolsiri’s “Hunger,” a family drama with food as its central theme. It stars Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, aka Aok Bap, the breakout star of “Bad Genius” and a former Talent to Watch, selected by Variety and the International Film Festival & Awards Macao.
Veteran director Wisit Sasanatieng (“Tears of the Black Tiger”) is directing “The Murderer,...
Its four films and two series span the comedy, suspense and comedy drama genres and hail from six different local production firms – Gmm Studios, International, Gdh, Song Sound Productions, Transformation Films, 18 Tanwa and Jungka Bangkok. Significantly, too, they are sourced from established directors or producers.
Writer-director Prueksa Amaruji’s dark comedy film “Lost Lotteries” is produced by Ekachai Uekrongtham and will stream from mid-November.
Writer-producer Kongdej Jaturanrasmee and veteran indie producer Soros Sukhum are behind director Sitisiri Mongkolsiri’s “Hunger,” a family drama with food as its central theme. It stars Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, aka Aok Bap, the breakout star of “Bad Genius” and a former Talent to Watch, selected by Variety and the International Film Festival & Awards Macao.
Veteran director Wisit Sasanatieng (“Tears of the Black Tiger”) is directing “The Murderer,...
- 10/11/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix is broadening its original content output from Thailand, a country with a history of punching above its weight with original genre filmmaking, TV production and creative advertising.
Netflix has produced and released a smattering of individual originals from Thailand over the past few years — including reality series The Stranded and crime thriller Bangkok Breaking — but the lineup unveiled by the streamer at a glitzy event in Bangkok Tuesday evening represents its first full Thai slate. The slate includes four films and two series.
“From broad comedy to twisty thrillers, this is our most diverse lineup of titles to date in Thailand,” said Netflix’s director of content for Thailand, Yongyoot Thongkongtoon.
“While we explore class disparity in culinary film Hunger, pay homage to itinerant mobile film troupes in Mon Rak Nak Pak and follow the emotional journey of strangers pretending to be a family in Analog Squad,...
Netflix has produced and released a smattering of individual originals from Thailand over the past few years — including reality series The Stranded and crime thriller Bangkok Breaking — but the lineup unveiled by the streamer at a glitzy event in Bangkok Tuesday evening represents its first full Thai slate. The slate includes four films and two series.
“From broad comedy to twisty thrillers, this is our most diverse lineup of titles to date in Thailand,” said Netflix’s director of content for Thailand, Yongyoot Thongkongtoon.
“While we explore class disparity in culinary film Hunger, pay homage to itinerant mobile film troupes in Mon Rak Nak Pak and follow the emotional journey of strangers pretending to be a family in Analog Squad,...
- 10/11/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Singapore’s Momo Film Co has boarded a raft of projects, it was revealed on the opening day of the Busan Asian Contents & Film Market on Saturday.
Momo, in which Blue Ant Media’s Beach House Pictures has a majority stake, was founded in 2018 by writer-director Kris Ong (“Sunday”) and Tan Si En, who is a co-producer on Busan and Locarno title “Arnold is a Model Student.”
Tan has boarded “Andragogy” by Wregas Bhanuteja as a co-producer. The film will follow Prani, a middle-aged schoolteacher, whose angry video goes viral and she gets trolled online. Adi Ekatama is producing for Indonesia’s Rekata Studio (“Photocopier”).
“Our partnership with Wregas and Rekata Studio emphasise Momo’s commitment to work with like-minded Southeast Asian talents and push boundaries through compelling and edgy stories. This is the first of many upcoming projects and we look forward to sharing it with audience around the world,...
Momo, in which Blue Ant Media’s Beach House Pictures has a majority stake, was founded in 2018 by writer-director Kris Ong (“Sunday”) and Tan Si En, who is a co-producer on Busan and Locarno title “Arnold is a Model Student.”
Tan has boarded “Andragogy” by Wregas Bhanuteja as a co-producer. The film will follow Prani, a middle-aged schoolteacher, whose angry video goes viral and she gets trolled online. Adi Ekatama is producing for Indonesia’s Rekata Studio (“Photocopier”).
“Our partnership with Wregas and Rekata Studio emphasise Momo’s commitment to work with like-minded Southeast Asian talents and push boundaries through compelling and edgy stories. This is the first of many upcoming projects and we look forward to sharing it with audience around the world,...
- 10/8/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Recently premiering in Locarno, Thai filmmaker Sorayos Prapapan’s debut feature “Arnold is a Model Student” is a very interesting narrative amalgam, as it combines his own experiences from attending school (there is even a scene with a same named student repeating the multiplication element as a punishment inside a teacher’s office) with the recent Bad Student movement, and an approach that moves more towards the comedy/satire despite the dramatic basis of the story.
“Arnold is a Perfect Student” screened in Locarno Film Festival
The titular Arnold is a student in the last class of high school, who stands out not just for his shaved hair, but also for having studied in the US for a year and winning a gold medal at the Mathematics Olympiad, something that has deemed him a model student in the eyes of the school administration. His treatment as a star does not only extend to the faculty,...
“Arnold is a Perfect Student” screened in Locarno Film Festival
The titular Arnold is a student in the last class of high school, who stands out not just for his shaved hair, but also for having studied in the US for a year and winning a gold medal at the Mathematics Olympiad, something that has deemed him a model student in the eyes of the school administration. His treatment as a star does not only extend to the faculty,...
- 9/4/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Streaming giant Netflix has joined as a major sponsor of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which will return to Queensland’s Gold Coast for the third edition of its forum and the 14th edition of its awards ceremony.
After a slimmed-down 2020 edition, this year marks a return to full competition for the 14th Awards on Nov. 11, with all categories to be presented. The in-person ceremony will be held at the Home of The Arts.
The forum (Nov. 11-16) will feature conversations with: Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose recent “Memoria” played in competition in Cannes; “Memoria” producer Soros Sukhum; and fast-rising Singaporean producer Jeremy Chua. His latest film the Abdullaah Mohammad Saad-directed “Rehana Maryam Noor,” was the first Bangladeshi film to be selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Sukhum was honored by Fiapf at Apsa in 2020 for his contribution to Asia Pacific cinema – particularly for his discovery and fostering of...
After a slimmed-down 2020 edition, this year marks a return to full competition for the 14th Awards on Nov. 11, with all categories to be presented. The in-person ceremony will be held at the Home of The Arts.
The forum (Nov. 11-16) will feature conversations with: Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose recent “Memoria” played in competition in Cannes; “Memoria” producer Soros Sukhum; and fast-rising Singaporean producer Jeremy Chua. His latest film the Abdullaah Mohammad Saad-directed “Rehana Maryam Noor,” was the first Bangladeshi film to be selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Sukhum was honored by Fiapf at Apsa in 2020 for his contribution to Asia Pacific cinema – particularly for his discovery and fostering of...
- 9/15/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy has given a taste of the program for November’s Asia Pacific Screen Forum, while Netflix has moved to sponsor the event and the accompanying awards.
Registrations are now open for the forum, which will feature Palme d’Or and Apsa Best Film winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Apsa Fiapf Award-winning producer, Soros Sukhum; a conversation with Jeremy Chua; a Meet the Programmers session; and personalised networking opportunities.
Weerasethakul and Sukhum will be discussing their first collaboration – the 2021 Cannes Jury Prize winner Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton. Sukhum was previously honoured by Fiapf at Apsa in 2020 for his contribution to Asia Pacific cinema.
Chua most recently produced Abdullaah Mohammad Saad’s Rehana Maryam Noor, the first Bangladeshi film to be selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, and is developing projects across the region. The film will have a special screening on the Gold Coast for local audiences,...
Registrations are now open for the forum, which will feature Palme d’Or and Apsa Best Film winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Apsa Fiapf Award-winning producer, Soros Sukhum; a conversation with Jeremy Chua; a Meet the Programmers session; and personalised networking opportunities.
Weerasethakul and Sukhum will be discussing their first collaboration – the 2021 Cannes Jury Prize winner Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton. Sukhum was previously honoured by Fiapf at Apsa in 2020 for his contribution to Asia Pacific cinema.
Chua most recently produced Abdullaah Mohammad Saad’s Rehana Maryam Noor, the first Bangladeshi film to be selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, and is developing projects across the region. The film will have a special screening on the Gold Coast for local audiences,...
- 9/15/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
There is a lot that Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke cannot say about his new project “A Useful Ghost.” But then again, when audiences in Thailand see the film, they will know exactly what it means.
Set primarily in a family home, “A Useful Ghost” tells the story of a couple, March and Nat, and their young son Dot. March runs a vacuum cleaner factory, but ironically, one day Nat dies from a respiratory disease caused by air pollution in the area. Saddened by the death of his wife, March becomes worried that the same fate will befall Dot, when the boy starts developing similar symptoms.
In an attempt to save her son’s health, Nat returns to haunt the family as a vacuum cleaner and tries desperately to suck up all the dust in the house. Eventually, she realizes the family home is haunted also by the ghosts of dead...
Set primarily in a family home, “A Useful Ghost” tells the story of a couple, March and Nat, and their young son Dot. March runs a vacuum cleaner factory, but ironically, one day Nat dies from a respiratory disease caused by air pollution in the area. Saddened by the death of his wife, March becomes worried that the same fate will befall Dot, when the boy starts developing similar symptoms.
In an attempt to save her son’s health, Nat returns to haunt the family as a vacuum cleaner and tries desperately to suck up all the dust in the house. Eventually, she realizes the family home is haunted also by the ghosts of dead...
- 8/10/2021
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s (pictured center) dark comedy film “A Useful Ghost” has scooped the top prize at the Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors awards ceremony.
This year’s Open Doors co-production forum featured nine projects from Southeast Asia and Mongolia looking for international partners, and also represented the close of the forum’s three-year cycle focusing on that part of the world in particular.
The winning film tells the story of March and Nat, a happily married couple, and their seven-year-old son named Dot. One day, Nat dies of respiratory disease caused by air pollution. Saddened by the death of his wife, March is worried that the same fate will befall his son, who gradually develops similar symptoms. Nat then returns as a ghost haunting the house vacuum cleaner to try and suck up the dust hurting her son.
“This film touches upon current social and political issues in a humorous way.
This year’s Open Doors co-production forum featured nine projects from Southeast Asia and Mongolia looking for international partners, and also represented the close of the forum’s three-year cycle focusing on that part of the world in particular.
The winning film tells the story of March and Nat, a happily married couple, and their seven-year-old son named Dot. One day, Nat dies of respiratory disease caused by air pollution. Saddened by the death of his wife, March is worried that the same fate will befall his son, who gradually develops similar symptoms. Nat then returns as a ghost haunting the house vacuum cleaner to try and suck up the dust hurting her son.
“This film touches upon current social and political issues in a humorous way.
- 8/10/2021
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy honoured regional filmmakers at a special presentation on Australia’s Gold Coast last night (November 26).
Thailand-based producer Soros Sukhum took home the 2020 Fiapf Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film in the Asia Pacific region. Sukhum is well regarded for work in the Thai indie space, launching the careers of Aditya Assarat, Sivaroj Kongsakul, Anocha Suwichakornpong, and Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit. His latest credit is Memoria, the English language debut for director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, starring Tilda Swinton.
Hosted by Iranian born Australian presenter Leila McKinnon, the ceremony also awarded its Young Cinema Award to Indian filmmaker Akshay Indikar for Chronicle Of Space (Sthalpuran), with a Special Mention going to Australian Stephen Maxwell Johnson for High Ground.
The Apsa Presentation Ceremony marked the end of the 2020 Apsa Forum, a week-long series of panels and roundtable events delivered both in person and digitally, with participants from 18 countries.
The MPA Apsa Academy Film Fund...
Thailand-based producer Soros Sukhum took home the 2020 Fiapf Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film in the Asia Pacific region. Sukhum is well regarded for work in the Thai indie space, launching the careers of Aditya Assarat, Sivaroj Kongsakul, Anocha Suwichakornpong, and Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit. His latest credit is Memoria, the English language debut for director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, starring Tilda Swinton.
Hosted by Iranian born Australian presenter Leila McKinnon, the ceremony also awarded its Young Cinema Award to Indian filmmaker Akshay Indikar for Chronicle Of Space (Sthalpuran), with a Special Mention going to Australian Stephen Maxwell Johnson for High Ground.
The Apsa Presentation Ceremony marked the end of the 2020 Apsa Forum, a week-long series of panels and roundtable events delivered both in person and digitally, with participants from 18 countries.
The MPA Apsa Academy Film Fund...
- 11/27/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Soros Sukhum received the outstanding achievement prize.
Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir and Filipino producer Bianca Balbuena are among the winners at the 2020 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa), which held a special award presentation in Australia’s Gold Coast.
The pair were two of four recipients of $25,000 each through the Apsa Academy Film Fund which awards projects at script development stage.
In receiving the grant towards her project All Before You, Jacir becomes the first filmmaker to receive the Apsa grant on two occasions. She was previously awarded for 2017 film Wajib, which premiered at Locarno, winning five prizes including the special prize for best film.
Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir and Filipino producer Bianca Balbuena are among the winners at the 2020 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa), which held a special award presentation in Australia’s Gold Coast.
The pair were two of four recipients of $25,000 each through the Apsa Academy Film Fund which awards projects at script development stage.
In receiving the grant towards her project All Before You, Jacir becomes the first filmmaker to receive the Apsa grant on two occasions. She was previously awarded for 2017 film Wajib, which premiered at Locarno, winning five prizes including the special prize for best film.
- 11/26/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Thai producer Soros Sukhum was Thursday honored with the Fiapf Award for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific region. The prize was presented as part of a heavily revamped Asia Pacific Screen Awards ceremony, at Gold Coast in Australia’s Queensland.
The Young Cinema Award was won by Indian filmmaker Akshay Indikar for “Chronicle of Space” (“Sthalpuran”), with a special mention going to Australia’s Stephen Maxwell Johnson for “High Ground.”
Earlier this year the Apsa Awards event’s future had seemed deeply clouded due to twin hits from financial problems and the coronavirus. Normally, a dozen prizes are awarded to artistic films from across the vast Unesco-defined Asia region.
In June, the Brisbane City Council and its offshoot Brisbane Marketing, notified Apsa organizers that they would not be able to fund the event due to the impact of the coronavirus on the city’s budget.
The...
The Young Cinema Award was won by Indian filmmaker Akshay Indikar for “Chronicle of Space” (“Sthalpuran”), with a special mention going to Australia’s Stephen Maxwell Johnson for “High Ground.”
Earlier this year the Apsa Awards event’s future had seemed deeply clouded due to twin hits from financial problems and the coronavirus. Normally, a dozen prizes are awarded to artistic films from across the vast Unesco-defined Asia region.
In June, the Brisbane City Council and its offshoot Brisbane Marketing, notified Apsa organizers that they would not be able to fund the event due to the impact of the coronavirus on the city’s budget.
The...
- 11/26/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Stephen Johnson’s High Ground earned a special mention from The Young Cinema Award jury at this evening’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards, held on the Gold Coast.
Set in 1930s Arnhem Land, High Ground follows young Aboriginal man Gutjuk (Jacob Junior Nayinggul), who in a bid to save the last of his family teams up with ex-soldier Travis (Simon Baker) to track down the most dangerous warrior in the Territory – his uncle.
The Apsa jury praised the assured direction of Johnson, noting his film gave “voice to the issue of brutal colonisation.” Jack Thompson, Apsa president and star of the film, accepted the honour on behalf of the director.
High Ground premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and also stars Callan Mulvey, Witiyana Marika, Caren Pistorius and Ryan Corr. Madman Entertainment will release the drama, written by Chris Anastassiades and produced by David Jowsey, Johnson, Marika, Maggie Miles and Greer Simpkin,...
Set in 1930s Arnhem Land, High Ground follows young Aboriginal man Gutjuk (Jacob Junior Nayinggul), who in a bid to save the last of his family teams up with ex-soldier Travis (Simon Baker) to track down the most dangerous warrior in the Territory – his uncle.
The Apsa jury praised the assured direction of Johnson, noting his film gave “voice to the issue of brutal colonisation.” Jack Thompson, Apsa president and star of the film, accepted the honour on behalf of the director.
High Ground premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and also stars Callan Mulvey, Witiyana Marika, Caren Pistorius and Ryan Corr. Madman Entertainment will release the drama, written by Chris Anastassiades and produced by David Jowsey, Johnson, Marika, Maggie Miles and Greer Simpkin,...
- 11/26/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Eric Khoo-helmed “Food Lore” aims to explore a number of social issues throughout Asia, by connecting them with the local cuisines. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang handles the Thai episode, which is quite different from the rest, since it presents a fourth-wall breaking story based on his Folklore Episode “Pob“.
Food Lore is available on HBO Asia and HBO
In “Pob”, Thomas Burton van Blarcom plays John Conrad, an American who recently moved to Thailand to take over as the new head of an international corporation, and is found with his stomach ripped open, his guts missing, and a piece of cheese in his mouth. The episode deals with the events that led to his death and his interaction with the homonymous ghost. “The Caterer” focuses on the story of Thomas Burton van Blarcom, during the shooting of “Pob”.
As the film begins, we watch him barely coping with the country, not...
Food Lore is available on HBO Asia and HBO
In “Pob”, Thomas Burton van Blarcom plays John Conrad, an American who recently moved to Thailand to take over as the new head of an international corporation, and is found with his stomach ripped open, his guts missing, and a piece of cheese in his mouth. The episode deals with the events that led to his death and his interaction with the homonymous ghost. “The Caterer” focuses on the story of Thomas Burton van Blarcom, during the shooting of “Pob”.
As the film begins, we watch him barely coping with the country, not...
- 3/21/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee completed film studies at King Mongkut Institute of Technology. A director and screenwriter, who worked also as a teacher, copywriter and restaurant owner. Appreciated for psychological sensibility and the ability to transfer ephemeral emotional states into the screen. His films were presented and awarded at numerous international festivals, In 2012 received the Grand Prix at Five Flavours for “P-047”.
Jennis Oprasert was born in 2000, singer and actress. She belongs to the supergroup of idols BNK48, she was in the first line-up of the band founded in 2017. At the age of eight she acted in the horror film “The 8th Day”, for which she was nominated for the Suphannahong National Film Awards. For her leading role in Kongdej Jaturanrasamee’s “Where We Belong” she received the Marie Claire Asia Award for emerging talent.
Soros Sukhum was born in Bangkok, graduate of film production at the Faculty of Communication Arts of the University of Rangsit.
Jennis Oprasert was born in 2000, singer and actress. She belongs to the supergroup of idols BNK48, she was in the first line-up of the band founded in 2017. At the age of eight she acted in the horror film “The 8th Day”, for which she was nominated for the Suphannahong National Film Awards. For her leading role in Kongdej Jaturanrasamee’s “Where We Belong” she received the Marie Claire Asia Award for emerging talent.
Soros Sukhum was born in Bangkok, graduate of film production at the Faculty of Communication Arts of the University of Rangsit.
- 11/24/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Rountable event to include panels, workshops and spotlights on Thai studio Gdh and ’Manta Ray’ director Phuttipong Aroonpheng.
Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures is launching an industry event, Roundtable (July 4-7), which will run concurrently with the Bangkok Asean Film Festival.
While the festival will focus on screenings, Roundtable will host seminars, workshops and spotlights, with the two events aiming to complement each other by offering a range of activities focused on Southeast Asian cinema.
Highlights include a spotlight on Thai studio Gdh, which has credits including international hit Bad Genius, and Thai director Phuttipong Aroonpheng, whose 2018 drama Manta Ray...
Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures is launching an industry event, Roundtable (July 4-7), which will run concurrently with the Bangkok Asean Film Festival.
While the festival will focus on screenings, Roundtable will host seminars, workshops and spotlights, with the two events aiming to complement each other by offering a range of activities focused on Southeast Asian cinema.
Highlights include a spotlight on Thai studio Gdh, which has credits including international hit Bad Genius, and Thai director Phuttipong Aroonpheng, whose 2018 drama Manta Ray...
- 6/18/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Project pitching event, Thai Pitch will return to Cannes for the eighth time next month. It will launch three film projects from Thailand seeking international finance, co-production and sales partners.
Director, Kongdej Jaturanrasamee (“P-047”) and producer Soros Sukhum (“Wonderful Town”) will pitch “51 Faces of Anne,” about a woman with memory loss faced with the challenge of survival on a mysterious island. The radical concept film is expected to involve all 51 members of the pop idol sensation BNK48.
Nontawat Numbenchapol (“Boundary”) as director and producers Steve Chen (“Diamond Island”) and Supatcha Thipsena, will present “Doi Boy,” about an undocumented heterosexual refugee, working as a gay masseuse and prostitute in Chiang Mai. “Doi Boi” was previously crafted at the Cannes Atelier and the Seafic lab, where it won the Seafic Award.
Director Sorayos Prapapan (“Death of the Sound Man”) and producer Donsaron Kovitvanitcha will unwrap “Arnold is a Model Student” about the...
Director, Kongdej Jaturanrasamee (“P-047”) and producer Soros Sukhum (“Wonderful Town”) will pitch “51 Faces of Anne,” about a woman with memory loss faced with the challenge of survival on a mysterious island. The radical concept film is expected to involve all 51 members of the pop idol sensation BNK48.
Nontawat Numbenchapol (“Boundary”) as director and producers Steve Chen (“Diamond Island”) and Supatcha Thipsena, will present “Doi Boy,” about an undocumented heterosexual refugee, working as a gay masseuse and prostitute in Chiang Mai. “Doi Boi” was previously crafted at the Cannes Atelier and the Seafic lab, where it won the Seafic Award.
Director Sorayos Prapapan (“Death of the Sound Man”) and producer Donsaron Kovitvanitcha will unwrap “Arnold is a Model Student” about the...
- 4/17/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Nontawat Numbenchapol and Sorayos Prapapan will bring projects to this year’s edition of Thai Pitch at Cannes.
Three internationally acclaimed Thai directors – Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Nontawat Numbenchapol and Sorayos Prapapan – have been selectd to bring projects to this year’s edition of Thai Pitch at Cannes.
Organised by Thailand’s Ministry of Culture, the event aims to match the three filmmakers and their producers with prospective sales agents, distributors, funders and co-producers. The three projects are:
51 Faces Of Anne
Director: Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Producer: Soros Sukhum (Mundane History)
Synopsis: Anne is an ordinary girl who wakes up alone on a mysterious island.
Three internationally acclaimed Thai directors – Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Nontawat Numbenchapol and Sorayos Prapapan – have been selectd to bring projects to this year’s edition of Thai Pitch at Cannes.
Organised by Thailand’s Ministry of Culture, the event aims to match the three filmmakers and their producers with prospective sales agents, distributors, funders and co-producers. The three projects are:
51 Faces Of Anne
Director: Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Producer: Soros Sukhum (Mundane History)
Synopsis: Anne is an ordinary girl who wakes up alone on a mysterious island.
- 4/17/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
The Final Print, directed by Jang Woo-jin, wins $15,000 top prize.
At the Busan International Film Festival (Biff), the Asian Project Market (Apm) wrapped today (9 Oct) with the Busan Award going to The Final Print, directed by Jang Woo-jin and produced by Han Sunhee.
Sponsored by Busan Metropolitan City, the Busan Award comes with a cash prize of $15,000.
Currently in script development, The Final Print follows a South Korean photographer in Berlin who takes pictures of her night drinking and getting high with a North Korean couple she meets. Upon waking the next day she learns they have suddenly died, so...
At the Busan International Film Festival (Biff), the Asian Project Market (Apm) wrapped today (9 Oct) with the Busan Award going to The Final Print, directed by Jang Woo-jin and produced by Han Sunhee.
Sponsored by Busan Metropolitan City, the Busan Award comes with a cash prize of $15,000.
Currently in script development, The Final Print follows a South Korean photographer in Berlin who takes pictures of her night drinking and getting high with a North Korean couple she meets. Upon waking the next day she learns they have suddenly died, so...
- 10/9/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Titles include surrealist drama Taste and black comedy Return Of The Owl.
Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures has unveiled the five projects, including four narrative features and one documentary, which will receive grants in its Spring 2018 funding round.
Taking a cue from established film funds such as Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund and Busan’s Asian Cinema Fund, Purin Pictures has moved to an open submissions format to reach out to a wider community of filmmakers in Southeast Asia.
See full list of selected projects below.
While the four narrative projects will receive production grants of $30,000, the documentary project will receive $50,000 in post-production services,...
Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures has unveiled the five projects, including four narrative features and one documentary, which will receive grants in its Spring 2018 funding round.
Taking a cue from established film funds such as Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund and Busan’s Asian Cinema Fund, Purin Pictures has moved to an open submissions format to reach out to a wider community of filmmakers in Southeast Asia.
See full list of selected projects below.
While the four narrative projects will receive production grants of $30,000, the documentary project will receive $50,000 in post-production services,...
- 5/1/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
South East Asian film fund, Purin Pictures has handed out $170,000 of finance to a quintet of regional movie projects.
Established last year and launched officially in Busan, the fund has shifted up a gear. An open project submission process has replaced previous reliance on project markets and grant organizations such as Busan’s Asian Cinema Fund or the Rotterdam Festival’s Hubert Bals Fund. Purin has also teamed with White Light Post to come up with its first grant for a film in post-production.
Purin’s Spring 2018 session will provide $30,000 each to: black comedy “Return of the Owl” directed by Martika Escobar and produced by Monster Jimenez of the Philippines; relationship drama “Sometime, Sometime” directed by Jacky Yeap Swee Leong, and produced by Tan Chui Mui from Malaysia; surrealist drama “Taste” to be directed by Le Bao, and produced by Singapore’s Lai Weijie, and Vietnam’s Thao Dong Thi...
Established last year and launched officially in Busan, the fund has shifted up a gear. An open project submission process has replaced previous reliance on project markets and grant organizations such as Busan’s Asian Cinema Fund or the Rotterdam Festival’s Hubert Bals Fund. Purin has also teamed with White Light Post to come up with its first grant for a film in post-production.
Purin’s Spring 2018 session will provide $30,000 each to: black comedy “Return of the Owl” directed by Martika Escobar and produced by Monster Jimenez of the Philippines; relationship drama “Sometime, Sometime” directed by Jacky Yeap Swee Leong, and produced by Tan Chui Mui from Malaysia; surrealist drama “Taste” to be directed by Le Bao, and produced by Singapore’s Lai Weijie, and Vietnam’s Thao Dong Thi...
- 5/1/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Selected projects include works from producers Soros Sukhum and Prachya Pinkaew and filmmaker Jakrawal Nilthamrong.
Leading Thai producers Soros Sukhum and Prachya Pinkaew and award-winning filmmaker Jakrawal Nilthamrong have been selected to present projects at this year’s Thai Pitch in Cannes.
Organised by Thailand’s Ministry of Culture, the event will take place May 22-23 at the Thai Pavilion in the International Village. Producer and film festival programmer Raymond Phathanavirangoon is coordinating the event.
Soros Sukhum is producing artist and filmmaker Taiki Sakpisit’s first feature film The Edge Of Daybreak, about a former army general who is forced to confront the past through a series of intensive sessions of electroshock therapy.
Sukhum’s recent producing credits include Anocha Suwichakornpong’s By The Time It Gets Dark, Davy Chou’s Diamond Island and Kirsten Tan’s Pop Aye[pictured], the latter two projects as a co-producer.
Prachya Pinkaew, best known as director of worldwide action hit Ong...
Leading Thai producers Soros Sukhum and Prachya Pinkaew and award-winning filmmaker Jakrawal Nilthamrong have been selected to present projects at this year’s Thai Pitch in Cannes.
Organised by Thailand’s Ministry of Culture, the event will take place May 22-23 at the Thai Pavilion in the International Village. Producer and film festival programmer Raymond Phathanavirangoon is coordinating the event.
Soros Sukhum is producing artist and filmmaker Taiki Sakpisit’s first feature film The Edge Of Daybreak, about a former army general who is forced to confront the past through a series of intensive sessions of electroshock therapy.
Sukhum’s recent producing credits include Anocha Suwichakornpong’s By The Time It Gets Dark, Davy Chou’s Diamond Island and Kirsten Tan’s Pop Aye[pictured], the latter two projects as a co-producer.
Prachya Pinkaew, best known as director of worldwide action hit Ong...
- 5/1/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Prabda Yoon’s feature debut will play in Rotterdamn’s Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.
Thai sales outfit Mosquito Films Distribution has picked up worldwide rights to Thai writer-director Prabda Yoon’s Motel Mist, the only Asian entry at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (Jan 27 - Feb 7) revamped Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.
The new film marks the feature debut of Yoon, an award-winning author and screenwriter most notably for Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s Last Life In The Universe and Invisible Waves.
His new thriller is set entirely in a ‘love motel’ where five lives connect in unexpected ways and mysterious powers are at play. The characters include two school girls, a motel staff member, a man obsessed with sexual fetish and a former child actor who believes aliens are chasing him.
“In a country where justice and basic human rights are fragile and can be easily violated by ‘higher powers’ with absurd and often comical logic, it seems...
Thai sales outfit Mosquito Films Distribution has picked up worldwide rights to Thai writer-director Prabda Yoon’s Motel Mist, the only Asian entry at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (Jan 27 - Feb 7) revamped Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.
The new film marks the feature debut of Yoon, an award-winning author and screenwriter most notably for Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s Last Life In The Universe and Invisible Waves.
His new thriller is set entirely in a ‘love motel’ where five lives connect in unexpected ways and mysterious powers are at play. The characters include two school girls, a motel staff member, a man obsessed with sexual fetish and a former child actor who believes aliens are chasing him.
“In a country where justice and basic human rights are fragile and can be easily violated by ‘higher powers’ with absurd and often comical logic, it seems...
- 1/18/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Thai sales company Mosquito Films Distribution has picked up Singaporean filmmaker Liao Jiekai’s sophomore feature As You Were.
The film premiered in Tokyo International Film Festival’s Asian Future competition in October and screened to a full house at the Singapore International Film Festival this week.
This follows the Thai outfit’s picking up two Malaysian films – previous Cannes director Woo Ming Jin’s The Second Life Of Thieves, which premiered in Busan, and his oft-times producer Edmund Yeo’s feature directorial debut River Of Exploding Durians, which was in Tokyo’s main competition.
As You Were was also in international competition in Torino and Nantes.
Set on an idyllic island south of Singapore, the film follows a couple spending their last moments together as their relationship falls apart, exploring their memories and the oppressive past of St. John’s Island, which was, at various points in history, a quarantine...
The film premiered in Tokyo International Film Festival’s Asian Future competition in October and screened to a full house at the Singapore International Film Festival this week.
This follows the Thai outfit’s picking up two Malaysian films – previous Cannes director Woo Ming Jin’s The Second Life Of Thieves, which premiered in Busan, and his oft-times producer Edmund Yeo’s feature directorial debut River Of Exploding Durians, which was in Tokyo’s main competition.
As You Were was also in international competition in Torino and Nantes.
Set on an idyllic island south of Singapore, the film follows a couple spending their last moments together as their relationship falls apart, exploring their memories and the oppressive past of St. John’s Island, which was, at various points in history, a quarantine...
- 12/11/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Policy-makers, film commissioners and producers at this year’s Asian Film Policy Forum (Oct 6-7) discussed plans to launch an Asian cinema portal, possibly as an educational initiative to widen the audience for Asian films.
Still at the conceptual stage, the initiative aims to address the problem that many Asian arthouse and independent films do not receive theatrical distribution or have a life beyond the festival circuit.
Described as “cultural exchange” rather than as a commercial endeavour, the platform could nonetheless generate revenue for filmmakers. Speaking on a panel on Monday, Netpac vice president Philip Cheah used the example of the Netpac portal Asiapacificfilms.com, which has a partnership with Alexander Street Press, a content provider to the educational sector.
Asiapacificfilms.com has put more than 600 films online, which it sells to universities and other educational institutions, with revenues flowing back to the directors. “In academia, people are much more open and want to see more of...
Still at the conceptual stage, the initiative aims to address the problem that many Asian arthouse and independent films do not receive theatrical distribution or have a life beyond the festival circuit.
Described as “cultural exchange” rather than as a commercial endeavour, the platform could nonetheless generate revenue for filmmakers. Speaking on a panel on Monday, Netpac vice president Philip Cheah used the example of the Netpac portal Asiapacificfilms.com, which has a partnership with Alexander Street Press, a content provider to the educational sector.
Asiapacificfilms.com has put more than 600 films online, which it sells to universities and other educational institutions, with revenues flowing back to the directors. “In academia, people are much more open and want to see more of...
- 10/7/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Directors include Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho.Scroll down for full list
Busan’s Asian Project Market (Apm) has announced this year’s line-up including films from directors Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho and July Jung.
Winner of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’or, Vimukthi Jayasundara (The Forbidden Land) will present Sri Lankan project Hair Of The Dog That Bit You.
The drama is about a female tourist guide’s loss of memory and identity, and her struggle to come to terms with what is left of her life and an unknown future.
Cannes 2009 Best Director winner Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay) has Philippines-France-Germany co-production Fowl in the Apm line-up.
The story follows Ramon, a Filipino contract worker working at Singapore Post. When his wife Jenny suddenly dies, he has to travel back to the Philippines with her as if she were one of the many parcels he is so used to handling.
Korean directors...
Busan’s Asian Project Market (Apm) has announced this year’s line-up including films from directors Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho and July Jung.
Winner of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’or, Vimukthi Jayasundara (The Forbidden Land) will present Sri Lankan project Hair Of The Dog That Bit You.
The drama is about a female tourist guide’s loss of memory and identity, and her struggle to come to terms with what is left of her life and an unknown future.
Cannes 2009 Best Director winner Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay) has Philippines-France-Germany co-production Fowl in the Apm line-up.
The story follows Ramon, a Filipino contract worker working at Singapore Post. When his wife Jenny suddenly dies, he has to travel back to the Philippines with her as if she were one of the many parcels he is so used to handling.
Korean directors...
- 8/19/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Directors include Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho.
Busan’s Asian Project Market (Apm) has announced this year’s line-up including directors Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho and July Jung.
Winner of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’or, Vimukthi Jayasundara (The Forbidden Land) will present Sri Lankan project Hair Of The Dog That Bit You.
The drama is about a female tourist guide’s loss of memory and identity, and her struggle to come to terms with what is left of her life and an unknown future.
Cannes 2009 Best Director winner Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay) has Philippines-France-Germany co-production Fowl in the Apm line-up.
The story follows Ramon, a Filipino contract worker working at Singapore Post. When his wife Jenny suddenly dies, he has to travel back to the Philippines with her as if she were one of the many parcels he is so used to handling.
Korean directors include July Jung, the [link=nm...
Busan’s Asian Project Market (Apm) has announced this year’s line-up including directors Brillante Mendoza, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Yeon Sang-ho and July Jung.
Winner of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’or, Vimukthi Jayasundara (The Forbidden Land) will present Sri Lankan project Hair Of The Dog That Bit You.
The drama is about a female tourist guide’s loss of memory and identity, and her struggle to come to terms with what is left of her life and an unknown future.
Cannes 2009 Best Director winner Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay) has Philippines-France-Germany co-production Fowl in the Apm line-up.
The story follows Ramon, a Filipino contract worker working at Singapore Post. When his wife Jenny suddenly dies, he has to travel back to the Philippines with her as if she were one of the many parcels he is so used to handling.
Korean directors include July Jung, the [link=nm...
- 8/19/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
The Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) has announced six Thai works from rising filmmakers for this year’s Project Spotlight in the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff).
PiFan’s Project Spotlight takes a different Asian country each year to focus on selected genre film projects.
The seventh edition of Naff lauds Thailand as recently “running strong with its genre films of unique subject matters and techniques” and the filmmakers for the six selected projects as up-and-coming on the international stage.
Off his recent film Hong Hun featuring Ananda Everingham, Kulp Kaljareuk will bring mystery thriller Fallen Thailand as his next feature, with Nattaporn Kaljareuk producing. With shades of political commentary, the story is set in 2035 and features a Thai boxer battling zombies in a quarantined hospital to save his wife, a nurse, and help a lost child find his mother.
Director Nuttorn Kungwanklai, whose horror omnibus 9-9-81 screened at last year’s Udine Far East...
PiFan’s Project Spotlight takes a different Asian country each year to focus on selected genre film projects.
The seventh edition of Naff lauds Thailand as recently “running strong with its genre films of unique subject matters and techniques” and the filmmakers for the six selected projects as up-and-coming on the international stage.
Off his recent film Hong Hun featuring Ananda Everingham, Kulp Kaljareuk will bring mystery thriller Fallen Thailand as his next feature, with Nattaporn Kaljareuk producing. With shades of political commentary, the story is set in 2035 and features a Thai boxer battling zombies in a quarantined hospital to save his wife, a nurse, and help a lost child find his mother.
Director Nuttorn Kungwanklai, whose horror omnibus 9-9-81 screened at last year’s Udine Far East...
- 6/17/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Thai drama was nominated for awards at film festivals in Rotterdam and Busan.
Day for Night has acquired Lee Chatametikool’s Concrete Clouds distribution in the UK and Ireland, where it is set for release in early 2015.
Set against the backdrop of Thailand’s financial crisis of 1997, it follows four central characters who are brought together after more than a decade apart as a result of a suicide.
Chatametikool’s debut featurepremiered at Busan International Film Festival 2013. The film is a Vertical Films production and was co-produced by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Soros Sukhum, Anocha Suwichakornpong and Sylvia Chang.
Concrete Clouds also featured in the Tiger Award competition in Rotterdam earlier this year.
Speaking about the UK/Ireland acquisition, director Chatametikool said: “One of the most pressing issues for independent filmmakers is how to build and maintain an audience, especially in today’s dwindling market. Day for Night, as a passionate champion of independent cinema, takes a fresh...
Day for Night has acquired Lee Chatametikool’s Concrete Clouds distribution in the UK and Ireland, where it is set for release in early 2015.
Set against the backdrop of Thailand’s financial crisis of 1997, it follows four central characters who are brought together after more than a decade apart as a result of a suicide.
Chatametikool’s debut featurepremiered at Busan International Film Festival 2013. The film is a Vertical Films production and was co-produced by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Soros Sukhum, Anocha Suwichakornpong and Sylvia Chang.
Concrete Clouds also featured in the Tiger Award competition in Rotterdam earlier this year.
Speaking about the UK/Ireland acquisition, director Chatametikool said: “One of the most pressing issues for independent filmmakers is how to build and maintain an audience, especially in today’s dwindling market. Day for Night, as a passionate champion of independent cinema, takes a fresh...
- 4/25/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Though the market seemed slow on the surface, the usual sales got made: the larger companies selling almost out, the smaller ones busily speaking with others, selling here and there, worrying if this would get better, worse, or stay the same.
Meanwhile fascinating and energizing conversations were carried on with friends, newcomers, keepers of funds, representatives of countries and their needs to internationalize, to join forces with one another to create new models, internationalize, form cross cultural competent and cooperative ways of working together. We know the past model is failing to keep up with the technology and its fast spawning product. Some would say the old model is old and frail, sucking its old teeth as it pretends to carry on, but in reality, it is carrying its own corpse upon its shoulders. I would never go so far as to say this; the model will be changed, refined and redesigned, but it will survive because some people enjoy theatrical settings and that helps further other sales
FBI Casting Director Beatrice Kruger (now working on Fatih Akin¹s The Cut) spoke to us over dinner at Einsteins about her experience on Woody Allen¹s To Rome With Love, how he got involved in the real life politics of Italy as he attempted to cast real newscasters in the roles they play in real life. He didn't want the right wingers. He didn't like them, but he was told he had to hire them if he wanted to access the government monies, ...besides, how could he cast a left wing newscaster into the role off a right wing commentator? The experience of Italian politics did not make him happy.
Frank Cox, the founder of the Australian arthouse distributor Hopscotch which has been sold to eOne Entertainment, was in the Scandinavian Pavilion and told me he is still carrying on though on a smaller scale with his original company, New Vision Distribution. He recently acquired We¹re The Best by Lucas Moodyson, a darling film that showed in Cannes and Toronto and totally endeared me to its 13 year old girls as they searched for ways to get into trouble. (Magnolia has U.S.)
Robbie Little and Elie Mechoulam, Director of Sales and Marketing of The Little Film Company tallying up that $30,000,000 at the box office at $11 per ticket is only 3 million admissions, or 300,000 tickets sold...TV would be failure if it had such numbers. TV makes $46 million in ad sales on one episode of a great series...
Andrea Kaul, the EFM¹s new Co-Director who comes from Rtl TV and ad sales was not at that conversation, but when we spoke after the market was finished, such a topic as episodic content and online ad sales was also on her mind. The Berlinale screening of Netflix¹s second installment of Houses of Cards was a great success in the last days of the Berlinale, which was in itself food for thought. Even Dieter Kosslick, in his interview with Indiewire¹s Eric Kohn (Read Here) said, "We showed, for the first time in history, House of Cards. We have never done such a thing before. Heads were turning last night. Last year, we had [Jane Campion¹s TV series] Top of the Lake (in its entirety),so we are starting this new whole world."
Ted Hope of Fandor pointed out, "Research company Markets and Markets predicts global video-on-demand (VOD) revenue will grow from $21 billion last year to $45 billion in 2018. They define this as the combined revenues of all VOD outlets, worldwide ‹ essentially digital (online) VOD plus cable & satellite VOD. Huge numbers, but actually not a particularly high compound annual growth rate (16%) to get to the $45b number in years. Figure roughly half of this revenue flows to content owners and half to the VOD outlets."
To see the excitement of young people just beginning...everything to gain and little to lose, learning to like what they are doing to further their aims at telling stories their way. When I spoke with Wafa Tajdin, a founding partner and lead producer at Seven Thirty Films, an Africa based indie production company she runs with her sister, artist and film maker Amirah Tajdin. This Arab Indian pair of sisters is working to tell their stories of growing up in Kenya and living in Dubai...I asked which parent was what and was told that each parent was also half Arab, half Indian, the same sexes too...I should have told them about Peter, whose Italian Jewish parents also lived in such a ghetto of mixed marriages in east Harlem in the 1910s and 1920s. These are the stories which are forming in world cinema today. You can see her work Here
True cross-culture creation is taking place in the Talents section of the Efm. Eleven films of former Talent Campus participants are showing in the festival this year
One talent, Sompot Chidgasornpongse has formed a new international sales agency (and distribution company) called Mosquito. Thailand¹s leading independent filmmakers Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives), Pimpaka Towira (One Night Husband), Aditya Assarat (Hi-So), Soros Sukhum (Wonderful Town), Anocha Suwichakornpong (Mundane History), and Lee Chatametikool have joined hands to open Mosquito Films Distribution. The new company will handle international sales and festival distribution for the partners¹ films as well as upcoming titles from the new generation of Southeast Asian filmmakers. - See more Here
Ben Gibson of London Film School,Ira Deutchman of Colombia Film School, German film school dffb, Frances La Femis, Fescac the Romanian Film and Theater University are continuing their initiative Making Waves, bringing in students to work collaboratively to develop creative campaigns, edit trailers, design posters and plan roll-out packages for actual independent movies in the Efm.
Also exciting was the search for new models, not only in the film world of funding by government organizations, but of society as discussed in such films as Göran Hugo Olsson¹s (Black Mix Tapes) Concerning Violence and Hubert Sauper¹s We Come as Friends , and of women in society. 50% of public funds should be made available for women who not only constitute 50% of the public as moviegoers and should represent 50% of the cinephiles (those working in the film business) but 50% of all societies and therefore should have 50% of the voice of public policy.
In its second year, the Dortmund Women's Film Festival drew even more women to hear and discuss the status of women in the film business and gender parity. Speakers such as Heike Meyer-Döring of the Creative Europe Desk of Film and Medienstiftung Nrw, Bosnian filmmaker and Golden Bear Winner in 2006 Jasmila Zbanic, So-in Hong of the Seoul International Womens Film Festival speaking on aims and projects of the Asian Women Film Network, Melissa Silverstein of the Athena Film Festival and blogger on Women and Hollywood updating on the status of women filmmakers in the U.S., Mariel Macia of Mica/ Cima, Spain speaking of the proposal for the EU Commission regarding gender equality on state aid for film - all these and more, like Claudia Landsberger head of Eye International, Film Institute Netherlands hosting a panel of Susana de la Sierra, General Director of Icaa, Spanish Film Institute noting that 7% of the leading roles were women and the 2007 Law for Gender Equality, Cornelia Hammelmann, Project Director of the German Federal Fund, Sanja Ravlic, President of the Gender Equality Study Group of Eurimages, Croatia -- all spoke of what seems as obvious as the noses on our faces, but which has made little impact on the reality of policies yet... We had so many more conversations, I wish I could put them all here.
With all the ideas circulating, one could hardly say that the Berlinale and the European Film Market were not busy.
Meanwhile fascinating and energizing conversations were carried on with friends, newcomers, keepers of funds, representatives of countries and their needs to internationalize, to join forces with one another to create new models, internationalize, form cross cultural competent and cooperative ways of working together. We know the past model is failing to keep up with the technology and its fast spawning product. Some would say the old model is old and frail, sucking its old teeth as it pretends to carry on, but in reality, it is carrying its own corpse upon its shoulders. I would never go so far as to say this; the model will be changed, refined and redesigned, but it will survive because some people enjoy theatrical settings and that helps further other sales
FBI Casting Director Beatrice Kruger (now working on Fatih Akin¹s The Cut) spoke to us over dinner at Einsteins about her experience on Woody Allen¹s To Rome With Love, how he got involved in the real life politics of Italy as he attempted to cast real newscasters in the roles they play in real life. He didn't want the right wingers. He didn't like them, but he was told he had to hire them if he wanted to access the government monies, ...besides, how could he cast a left wing newscaster into the role off a right wing commentator? The experience of Italian politics did not make him happy.
Frank Cox, the founder of the Australian arthouse distributor Hopscotch which has been sold to eOne Entertainment, was in the Scandinavian Pavilion and told me he is still carrying on though on a smaller scale with his original company, New Vision Distribution. He recently acquired We¹re The Best by Lucas Moodyson, a darling film that showed in Cannes and Toronto and totally endeared me to its 13 year old girls as they searched for ways to get into trouble. (Magnolia has U.S.)
Robbie Little and Elie Mechoulam, Director of Sales and Marketing of The Little Film Company tallying up that $30,000,000 at the box office at $11 per ticket is only 3 million admissions, or 300,000 tickets sold...TV would be failure if it had such numbers. TV makes $46 million in ad sales on one episode of a great series...
Andrea Kaul, the EFM¹s new Co-Director who comes from Rtl TV and ad sales was not at that conversation, but when we spoke after the market was finished, such a topic as episodic content and online ad sales was also on her mind. The Berlinale screening of Netflix¹s second installment of Houses of Cards was a great success in the last days of the Berlinale, which was in itself food for thought. Even Dieter Kosslick, in his interview with Indiewire¹s Eric Kohn (Read Here) said, "We showed, for the first time in history, House of Cards. We have never done such a thing before. Heads were turning last night. Last year, we had [Jane Campion¹s TV series] Top of the Lake (in its entirety),so we are starting this new whole world."
Ted Hope of Fandor pointed out, "Research company Markets and Markets predicts global video-on-demand (VOD) revenue will grow from $21 billion last year to $45 billion in 2018. They define this as the combined revenues of all VOD outlets, worldwide ‹ essentially digital (online) VOD plus cable & satellite VOD. Huge numbers, but actually not a particularly high compound annual growth rate (16%) to get to the $45b number in years. Figure roughly half of this revenue flows to content owners and half to the VOD outlets."
To see the excitement of young people just beginning...everything to gain and little to lose, learning to like what they are doing to further their aims at telling stories their way. When I spoke with Wafa Tajdin, a founding partner and lead producer at Seven Thirty Films, an Africa based indie production company she runs with her sister, artist and film maker Amirah Tajdin. This Arab Indian pair of sisters is working to tell their stories of growing up in Kenya and living in Dubai...I asked which parent was what and was told that each parent was also half Arab, half Indian, the same sexes too...I should have told them about Peter, whose Italian Jewish parents also lived in such a ghetto of mixed marriages in east Harlem in the 1910s and 1920s. These are the stories which are forming in world cinema today. You can see her work Here
True cross-culture creation is taking place in the Talents section of the Efm. Eleven films of former Talent Campus participants are showing in the festival this year
One talent, Sompot Chidgasornpongse has formed a new international sales agency (and distribution company) called Mosquito. Thailand¹s leading independent filmmakers Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives), Pimpaka Towira (One Night Husband), Aditya Assarat (Hi-So), Soros Sukhum (Wonderful Town), Anocha Suwichakornpong (Mundane History), and Lee Chatametikool have joined hands to open Mosquito Films Distribution. The new company will handle international sales and festival distribution for the partners¹ films as well as upcoming titles from the new generation of Southeast Asian filmmakers. - See more Here
Ben Gibson of London Film School,Ira Deutchman of Colombia Film School, German film school dffb, Frances La Femis, Fescac the Romanian Film and Theater University are continuing their initiative Making Waves, bringing in students to work collaboratively to develop creative campaigns, edit trailers, design posters and plan roll-out packages for actual independent movies in the Efm.
Also exciting was the search for new models, not only in the film world of funding by government organizations, but of society as discussed in such films as Göran Hugo Olsson¹s (Black Mix Tapes) Concerning Violence and Hubert Sauper¹s We Come as Friends , and of women in society. 50% of public funds should be made available for women who not only constitute 50% of the public as moviegoers and should represent 50% of the cinephiles (those working in the film business) but 50% of all societies and therefore should have 50% of the voice of public policy.
In its second year, the Dortmund Women's Film Festival drew even more women to hear and discuss the status of women in the film business and gender parity. Speakers such as Heike Meyer-Döring of the Creative Europe Desk of Film and Medienstiftung Nrw, Bosnian filmmaker and Golden Bear Winner in 2006 Jasmila Zbanic, So-in Hong of the Seoul International Womens Film Festival speaking on aims and projects of the Asian Women Film Network, Melissa Silverstein of the Athena Film Festival and blogger on Women and Hollywood updating on the status of women filmmakers in the U.S., Mariel Macia of Mica/ Cima, Spain speaking of the proposal for the EU Commission regarding gender equality on state aid for film - all these and more, like Claudia Landsberger head of Eye International, Film Institute Netherlands hosting a panel of Susana de la Sierra, General Director of Icaa, Spanish Film Institute noting that 7% of the leading roles were women and the 2007 Law for Gender Equality, Cornelia Hammelmann, Project Director of the German Federal Fund, Sanja Ravlic, President of the Gender Equality Study Group of Eurimages, Croatia -- all spoke of what seems as obvious as the noses on our faces, but which has made little impact on the reality of policies yet... We had so many more conversations, I wish I could put them all here.
With all the ideas circulating, one could hardly say that the Berlinale and the European Film Market were not busy.
- 2/27/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) has unveiled this year’s line-up of 29 projects, including two from the Philippines’ Brillante Mendoza.
The line-up includes four projects under the third annual Haf/Fox Chinese Film Development Award, which aims to support scripts from up-and-coming Chinese filmmakers (see full line-up below).
Mendoza is bringing feature film project The Embroiderer, about undying love, along with documentary Gay Messiah, which questions religion and belief. The Philippines’ Jun Robles Lana also returns to Haf this year with his project Our Father, after winning the 2013 Haf award for Barber’s Tales.
Hong Kong filmmakers are also strongly represented in the line-up, with five projects, including comedian Lam Tze-chung’s Game and actress-turned-director Carrie Ng’s Angel Whispers.
Hong Kong projects also include Jason Kwan’s A Nail Clipper Romance, produced by acclaimed director Pang Ho-cheung; Philip Yung’s The Sea, produced by Jia Zhang-ke’s regular producer Chow Keung; and Simon Chung...
The line-up includes four projects under the third annual Haf/Fox Chinese Film Development Award, which aims to support scripts from up-and-coming Chinese filmmakers (see full line-up below).
Mendoza is bringing feature film project The Embroiderer, about undying love, along with documentary Gay Messiah, which questions religion and belief. The Philippines’ Jun Robles Lana also returns to Haf this year with his project Our Father, after winning the 2013 Haf award for Barber’s Tales.
Hong Kong filmmakers are also strongly represented in the line-up, with five projects, including comedian Lam Tze-chung’s Game and actress-turned-director Carrie Ng’s Angel Whispers.
Hong Kong projects also include Jason Kwan’s A Nail Clipper Romance, produced by acclaimed director Pang Ho-cheung; Philip Yung’s The Sea, produced by Jia Zhang-ke’s regular producer Chow Keung; and Simon Chung...
- 1/27/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Six of Thailand’s leading independent filmmakers have joined forces to launch an international sales and festival distribution company, Mosquito Films Distribution.
The six filmmakers include Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who won the Cannes Palme d’Or for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, along with Pimpaka Towira (One Night Husband), Aditya Assarat (Hi-So), producer Soros Sukhum, Anocha Suwichakornpong (Mundane History) and Lee Chatametikool (Concrete Clouds).
The new company will handle international sales and festival distribution for the six partners’ films, as well as upcoming titles from the new generation of South-East Asian filmmakers. In addition to working on individual films, the new outfit aims to aggregate the content into curated programmes for film festivals and educational institutions.
Mosquito Films Distribution will make its debut at the Rotterdam Film Festival, which starts tomorrow (Jan 22-Feb 2) and also attend the Berlin Film Festival.
The company’s initial slate includes Concrete Clouds, directed by Chatametikool...
The six filmmakers include Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who won the Cannes Palme d’Or for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, along with Pimpaka Towira (One Night Husband), Aditya Assarat (Hi-So), producer Soros Sukhum, Anocha Suwichakornpong (Mundane History) and Lee Chatametikool (Concrete Clouds).
The new company will handle international sales and festival distribution for the six partners’ films, as well as upcoming titles from the new generation of South-East Asian filmmakers. In addition to working on individual films, the new outfit aims to aggregate the content into curated programmes for film festivals and educational institutions.
Mosquito Films Distribution will make its debut at the Rotterdam Film Festival, which starts tomorrow (Jan 22-Feb 2) and also attend the Berlin Film Festival.
The company’s initial slate includes Concrete Clouds, directed by Chatametikool...
- 1/21/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The 18th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has announced its full line-up of 301 films from 70 countries with 95 world premieres and 42 international premieres.
Running Oct 3-12, the festival will open with the world premiere of Bhutanese film Vara: A Blessing, directed by Buddhist monk Khyentse Norbu, who formerly served as technical advisor to Bernardo Bertolucci on Little Buddha.
Biff will close with the world premiere of Korean film The Dinner, directed by Kim Dong-hyun whose Hello, Stranger (2007) won Asian Cinema Fund (Acf) post-production support and won the 12th Biff’s Netpac Award.
New Market Incentive
The Asian Film Market is launching new incentives for buyers and sellers participating from this year.
Market head Jay Jeon said: “With an aim to being more productive and bring more Asia-focused development in future, we are going to offer indirect support with flight and accommodations to buyers who pick up films at the Asian Film Market.
“We’ll be giving...
Running Oct 3-12, the festival will open with the world premiere of Bhutanese film Vara: A Blessing, directed by Buddhist monk Khyentse Norbu, who formerly served as technical advisor to Bernardo Bertolucci on Little Buddha.
Biff will close with the world premiere of Korean film The Dinner, directed by Kim Dong-hyun whose Hello, Stranger (2007) won Asian Cinema Fund (Acf) post-production support and won the 12th Biff’s Netpac Award.
New Market Incentive
The Asian Film Market is launching new incentives for buyers and sellers participating from this year.
Market head Jay Jeon said: “With an aim to being more productive and bring more Asia-focused development in future, we are going to offer indirect support with flight and accommodations to buyers who pick up films at the Asian Film Market.
“We’ll be giving...
- 9/3/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Thailand’s Ministry of Culture is once again organizing the Thai Pitch event at this year’s Cannes Film Festival market. Four projects from well-regarded Thai filmmakers have been chosen to take part in this year’s initiative, to be held on Saturday May 18th from 10:00-15:30. The event will take place at the Thailand Pavilion in Cannes’ Village International no. 140. This year, Thai Pitch will be coordinated by producer and film programmer Raymond Phathanavirangoon.
The four projects include:
A Culinary Murder
dir: Somkiat Vithuranich (October Sonata)
prod: Pawas Sawatchaiyamet (Headshot, Red Eagle)
Born poor and raised as the kitchen maid to a wealthy, corrupt family, Anoma spends her childhood learning that the secrets to a man’s heart lie in his stomach. When she is made to marry the master of the house, she begins to transform her culinary skills into a deadly weapon. If food could kill, then her food is the deadliest.
The General’S Secret
dir/prod: Pimpaka Towira (One Night Husband)
Rian lives alone with her mother who suffers from a chronic back pain. One day, after a trip, she finds that her mother's condition has gotten better after receiving a homeopathic massage from an old masseuse called “auntie”. Rian does not believe in the treatment, but her mother feels otherwise. She decides to find out auntie’s secret by making a massage appointment with her.
The Way Back
dir: Boonsong Nakphoo (Four Stations)
prod: Pantham Thongsang (Tropical Malady, Mid Road Gang)
Sueb decides to leave the capital city Bangkok behind and bring his family to live a humble life in the countryside. Things initially seems to be as joyful as anticipated, until stresses gradually pile up. Unexpectedly, one day his wife takes their only son back to the capital city. Sueb insists on hanging onto his land until he finds the key to a harmonious life.
The White Buffalo
dir: Aditya Assarat (Wonderful Town, Hi-so)
prod: Aditya Assarat, Soros Sukhum (Mundane History, P-047)
This is the story of Peter, a European, who is married to a Thai woman and living in her village. It is a situation that reflects a colonial past, an age when white men came to the East to exploit and build their own paradise. But today, the balance of power has changed. The European is large only in body. He is no match for the cunning and deceit of the Thais.
For more information about the event and individual projects, as well as inquiries into booking meetings, please go to www.thaipitch.com...
The four projects include:
A Culinary Murder
dir: Somkiat Vithuranich (October Sonata)
prod: Pawas Sawatchaiyamet (Headshot, Red Eagle)
Born poor and raised as the kitchen maid to a wealthy, corrupt family, Anoma spends her childhood learning that the secrets to a man’s heart lie in his stomach. When she is made to marry the master of the house, she begins to transform her culinary skills into a deadly weapon. If food could kill, then her food is the deadliest.
The General’S Secret
dir/prod: Pimpaka Towira (One Night Husband)
Rian lives alone with her mother who suffers from a chronic back pain. One day, after a trip, she finds that her mother's condition has gotten better after receiving a homeopathic massage from an old masseuse called “auntie”. Rian does not believe in the treatment, but her mother feels otherwise. She decides to find out auntie’s secret by making a massage appointment with her.
The Way Back
dir: Boonsong Nakphoo (Four Stations)
prod: Pantham Thongsang (Tropical Malady, Mid Road Gang)
Sueb decides to leave the capital city Bangkok behind and bring his family to live a humble life in the countryside. Things initially seems to be as joyful as anticipated, until stresses gradually pile up. Unexpectedly, one day his wife takes their only son back to the capital city. Sueb insists on hanging onto his land until he finds the key to a harmonious life.
The White Buffalo
dir: Aditya Assarat (Wonderful Town, Hi-so)
prod: Aditya Assarat, Soros Sukhum (Mundane History, P-047)
This is the story of Peter, a European, who is married to a Thai woman and living in her village. It is a situation that reflects a colonial past, an age when white men came to the East to exploit and build their own paradise. But today, the balance of power has changed. The European is large only in body. He is no match for the cunning and deceit of the Thais.
For more information about the event and individual projects, as well as inquiries into booking meetings, please go to www.thaipitch.com...
- 5/16/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The lineup of the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival was announced today, and while there are a lot of impressive entries heading to the West Coast, not many of them are horror films. But there are a few that caught our eye so read on for the details.
This year's Los Angeles Film Festival runs from June 14th-24th; click here for ticket info. Below are the horror and horror-ish sounding films on the fest's slate; visit the official La Film Festival website for the full list.
Vampira and Me – (Director/Producer R. H. Greene) – Before Elvira there was Vampira, the playfully ghoulish host of a local L.A. late night horror movie show who became a national celebrity, then disappeared. This loving, personal portrait reveals the remarkable woman behind the chalk-white mask. ★ World Premiere
P-047 – Thailand (Director/Writer Kongdej Jaturanrasamee Producers Soros Sukhum, Kongdej Jaturanrasamee Cast Parinya Kwamwongwan, Aphichai Trakulphadejkrai) – Part meditation,...
This year's Los Angeles Film Festival runs from June 14th-24th; click here for ticket info. Below are the horror and horror-ish sounding films on the fest's slate; visit the official La Film Festival website for the full list.
Vampira and Me – (Director/Producer R. H. Greene) – Before Elvira there was Vampira, the playfully ghoulish host of a local L.A. late night horror movie show who became a national celebrity, then disappeared. This loving, personal portrait reveals the remarkable woman behind the chalk-white mask. ★ World Premiere
P-047 – Thailand (Director/Writer Kongdej Jaturanrasamee Producers Soros Sukhum, Kongdej Jaturanrasamee Cast Parinya Kwamwongwan, Aphichai Trakulphadejkrai) – Part meditation,...
- 5/1/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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