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Asia Cinema Fund backs diverse slate

Asia Cinema Fund backs diverse slate

By Patrick Frater

Tue, 09 August 2011, 18:12 PM (HKT)

Production News

The Busan International Film Festival 부산국제영화제's Asia Cinema Fund has announced financial support for some 31 film and documentary projects at different stages of completion.

Organisers report that applications grew by 30% to 285.

In the Script Development section it backed two projects from the Philippines and two from Thailand, both countries which it describes as having burgeoning independent film communities. Its recipients include the well-known director Wisit SASANATIENG วิศิษฏ์ ศาสนเที่ยง. Among the South Korean projects selectors say there were "remarkable" and diverse entries.

The post-production fund's selections include one film, Cut カット (2011), which is already bound for the Venice festival and Char.. The Island Within (pictured), a Danish-Indian co-ventured documentary which also appears in the Open Doors project market at this week's Locarno festival.


Asian Script Fund
Happy Birthday Mom!; dir. KIM Dong-hyun 김동현 [South Korea]
Somebody to Love; dir. JANG Hee-sun (장희선) [South Korea]
Stop over; dir. KIM Tae-yong 김태용 | 金兌容 [South Korea]
Interior; dir. Nawapol THAMRONGRATTANARIT นวพล ธำรงรัตนฤทธิ์ [Thailand]
Above the Clouds; dir. Pepe DIOKNO [Philippines]
Suriya ; dir. Wisit SASANATIENG [Thailand]
Satra ; dir. Sheron R. DAYOC [Philippines]
The Tale of a Good Police; dir. Abu Shahed EMON [Bangladesh]

Post-Production fund
Jesus Hospital; dirs. SHIN A-ga (신아가), LEE Sang-cheol (이상철) [South Korea]
Romance; dir. Joe LEE Kwang-kuk (이광국) [South Korea]
Dangerously Excited; dir. KOO Ja-hong 구자홍 | 具滋弘 [South Korea]
Starry Starry Night 星空 (2011); dir. Tom LIN 林書宇 (Taiwan)
I Carried You Home; dir. Tongpong CHANTARANGKUL (Thailand, Singapore )
Cut; dir. Amir NADERI [Japan]


ASIAN NETWORK OF DOCUMENTARY

Busan Film Commission Fund
Song of Life; dir. KIM Tae-il 김태일 [South Korea]
KyungSung Fund
1818 Bus; dir. KIM Sung-hwan (김성환) [South Korea]
Hyowon Fund
Nora Noh; dirs. KIM Seong-hee 김성희, KIM Il-rhan 김일란 [South Korea]
YoungSan Fund
The Omnivore's Dilemma; dir. HWANG Yun (황조윤) [South Korea]
ACP Fund
Reason of the Step; dir. KIM Cheol-min (김철민) [South Korea]
Dong-Eui Cinema Fund
Pylon Village; dir. KIM Dae-hwang (김대황) [South Korea]
DongSeo Asia Fund
Powerless; dir. Fahad MUSTAFA [India, Austria]
DongSeo Asia Fund
Academy of Marriage; dir. Reza HAERI [Iran]
PUFS Fund
On Mother's Head; dir. Kusuma Widjaja PUTU [Indonesia]
The Chosen Ones; dirs. Arman YERITSYAN, Vardan HOVHANNISYAN [Armenia]
BIFF Supporters Fund
Char... the Island Within; dir. Sourav SARANGI [India]
Cinema of Terror; dirs. Dain Iskandar SAID, Yayan WILUDIHARTO [Indonesia, Malaysia]
Busan Bank Fund
Golden Slumbers; dir. Davy CHOU [France, Cambodia]
311; dir. MORI Tatsuya 森達也 [Japan]
DMZ Fund
In God's land; dir. Pankaj Rishi KUMAR [India]
FE Chaudhry's Pakistan; dir. Mazhar ZAIDI [Pakistan]
Where Your Boundaries Are; dir. Nontawat NUMBENCHAPOL [Thailand]

Related Reviews

  1. Cut | カット
    Self-indulgent, masochistic drama set in Japan and directed by an Iranian.
  2. Starry Starry Night | 星空
    Disappointingly conventional tale of two lonely 13-year-olds, short on charm and drama.

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