On the occasion of Basri & Salma in a Never-ending Comedy screening at Vienna Shorts, Khozy Rizal speaks with Panos Kotzathanasis about the success of the film in the festival circuit, his cooperation with producer John Badalu, patriarchy in Indonesia and the concept of sex in such a setting, irony, humor and social comments, cinematography, editing and casting, Indonesian cinema and his future projects.
- 6/1/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures will disburse $140,000 to three Philippines and one Indonesian film as part of its fall grants.
The Purin committee has chosen three fiction and one documentary projects for production support and one documentary project for post-production support.
“The Remotes” is John Torres’ first fiction film after two decades of making documentaries. “Filipinana” by Rafael Manuel is expanded from a short film and was recently awarded at the Asian Project Market in Busan. “Jaguar” by Dean Colin Marcial is an urban thriller that straddles the gap between independent and mainstream genre cinema. Rounding out the selection are two documentaries, “Bariles” by Sheryl Rose Andes and “Planet of Love” by Ika Wulandari, that examine marginalized livelihoods in the Philippines and Indonesia respectively.
Production Grants
“The Remotes.” Director: John Torres. Producer: John Torres. Production Company: Los Otros (Philippines). Two sisters with superpowers race against time to track a voice that controls human avatars,...
The Purin committee has chosen three fiction and one documentary projects for production support and one documentary project for post-production support.
“The Remotes” is John Torres’ first fiction film after two decades of making documentaries. “Filipinana” by Rafael Manuel is expanded from a short film and was recently awarded at the Asian Project Market in Busan. “Jaguar” by Dean Colin Marcial is an urban thriller that straddles the gap between independent and mainstream genre cinema. Rounding out the selection are two documentaries, “Bariles” by Sheryl Rose Andes and “Planet of Love” by Ika Wulandari, that examine marginalized livelihoods in the Philippines and Indonesia respectively.
Production Grants
“The Remotes.” Director: John Torres. Producer: John Torres. Production Company: Los Otros (Philippines). Two sisters with superpowers race against time to track a voice that controls human avatars,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
2023 edition has received a record number of applications.
Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 10 projects for the 2023 edition of its FeatureLab training programme, for first or second film projects at an advanced development stage.
The 2023 iteration received a record 172 applications, from which one animation, one documentary and eight fiction projects have been chosen. Seven of the projects are debut feature, with three second films.
Scroll down for the selected projects
Two of the projects have previously participated in Tfl programmes: Irene Moray’s debut Sealskin, a Spanish feature set in a world where women are vanishing; and Francesco Romano’s debut The White House,...
Italy’s TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has selected 10 projects for the 2023 edition of its FeatureLab training programme, for first or second film projects at an advanced development stage.
The 2023 iteration received a record 172 applications, from which one animation, one documentary and eight fiction projects have been chosen. Seven of the projects are debut feature, with three second films.
Scroll down for the selected projects
Two of the projects have previously participated in Tfl programmes: Irene Moray’s debut Sealskin, a Spanish feature set in a world where women are vanishing; and Francesco Romano’s debut The White House,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The festival aims to be a showcase for emerging Southeast Asian filmmaking talent.
The BaliMakarya Film Festival, which will run from October 16-21 in popular Indonesian tourist destination Bali, is set to expand into a regional event with a strong focus on Southeast Asian cinema.
It is one of four film festivals due to take place in Indonesia over the next two months, reflecting the vibrant film culture in the vast country.
Last year, the inaugural BaliMakarya festival was held online only with just a national competition for short films. This year, the second edition has added three competitions for Southeast Asian features,...
The BaliMakarya Film Festival, which will run from October 16-21 in popular Indonesian tourist destination Bali, is set to expand into a regional event with a strong focus on Southeast Asian cinema.
It is one of four film festivals due to take place in Indonesia over the next two months, reflecting the vibrant film culture in the vast country.
Last year, the inaugural BaliMakarya festival was held online only with just a national competition for short films. This year, the second edition has added three competitions for Southeast Asian features,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
An animated feature is awarded for the first time.
Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures has selected five projects from Southeast Asia as the recipients of its spring 2022 session, which will receive a combined 175,000 grants for production and post-production.
The production grants are awarded to Demie Dangla’s documentary Magnetic Letters and Carl Joseph Papa’s animated feature The Missing, both from the Philippines, while the post-production grants are presented to Sorayos Prapapan’s Arnold Is A Model Student from Thailand, Daniel Hui’s Small Hours Of The Night from Singapore and Tonny Trimarsanto’s documentary One Big Sumba Family from Indonesia.
Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures has selected five projects from Southeast Asia as the recipients of its spring 2022 session, which will receive a combined 175,000 grants for production and post-production.
The production grants are awarded to Demie Dangla’s documentary Magnetic Letters and Carl Joseph Papa’s animated feature The Missing, both from the Philippines, while the post-production grants are presented to Sorayos Prapapan’s Arnold Is A Model Student from Thailand, Daniel Hui’s Small Hours Of The Night from Singapore and Tonny Trimarsanto’s documentary One Big Sumba Family from Indonesia.
- 5/2/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Full Circle Lab, the Southeast Asian project and talent development program co-led by Matthieu Darras and Izabela Igel alongside the Film Development Council of the Philippines, is poised for a third edition. There will also be a particular emphasis on training for the role of producer, with the addition of a Creative Producers Lab.
The Labs will take place online with workshops from Sept. 20 to Oct. 1, 2021 and be preceded by the Fdcp’s Film Industry Conference, open to a larger audience.
The objective is to identify, nurture and support creative projects from the Philippines and Southeast Asia, across features and series, and at different stages (development and post-production).
Leading creative names from the Philippines and the Southeast Asia region including producers Jeremy Chua, John Badalu, producer-director Antoinette Jadaone (“Fan Girl”), directors Sheron Dayoc (“Women of the Weeping River”) and Bui Thac Chuyen (“Adrift”) will join with their latest projects.
Mentors...
The Labs will take place online with workshops from Sept. 20 to Oct. 1, 2021 and be preceded by the Fdcp’s Film Industry Conference, open to a larger audience.
The objective is to identify, nurture and support creative projects from the Philippines and Southeast Asia, across features and series, and at different stages (development and post-production).
Leading creative names from the Philippines and the Southeast Asia region including producers Jeremy Chua, John Badalu, producer-director Antoinette Jadaone (“Fan Girl”), directors Sheron Dayoc (“Women of the Weeping River”) and Bui Thac Chuyen (“Adrift”) will join with their latest projects.
Mentors...
- 9/2/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- 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
Final session of three-year cycle will showcase ight projects and nine producers.
Thai director Sompot Chidgasornpongse, a long-time collaborator of Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and emerging Myanmar documentarian Sein Lyan Tun are among the filmmakers who will be presenting projects at this year’s edition of the Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors programme.
The initiative, aimed at supporting cinema from the global south and east, is in the final year of a three-year cycle focused on Southeast Asia and Mongolia and encompassing independent filmmaking communities in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Mongolia.
Thai director Sompot Chidgasornpongse, a long-time collaborator of Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and emerging Myanmar documentarian Sein Lyan Tun are among the filmmakers who will be presenting projects at this year’s edition of the Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors programme.
The initiative, aimed at supporting cinema from the global south and east, is in the final year of a three-year cycle focused on Southeast Asia and Mongolia and encompassing independent filmmaking communities in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Mongolia.
- 6/8/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Hong Kong director Kit Hung’s new film “Forever 17” is among the first projects to be supported by Gol Studios, a new Lgbt production platform launched by Jay Lin’s Taiwan-based Portico Media.
Aiming to take Lgbt cinema into the mainstream, Gol Studio is a crowdsourcing website that helps film projects on three fronts: helping productions find talent, crew and funding; distribution; and crowdsourced marketing.
The initiative is a sister operation of GagaOOLala, Asia’s first Lgbt-focused Ott platform. In the three years since launch, it has become a well-known player in the industry, with 150,000 members and 1,000 titles from all over the world. The platform now operates in Taiwan and covers all of Southeast Asia including Hong Kong and Macau.
Gol Studios is also partnering with Zero Chou for the third installment of her “Six Asian Cities Rainbow Project,” a series of films about different Lgbtq issues, each set in a different location.
Aiming to take Lgbt cinema into the mainstream, Gol Studio is a crowdsourcing website that helps film projects on three fronts: helping productions find talent, crew and funding; distribution; and crowdsourced marketing.
The initiative is a sister operation of GagaOOLala, Asia’s first Lgbt-focused Ott platform. In the three years since launch, it has become a well-known player in the industry, with 150,000 members and 1,000 titles from all over the world. The platform now operates in Taiwan and covers all of Southeast Asia including Hong Kong and Macau.
Gol Studios is also partnering with Zero Chou for the third installment of her “Six Asian Cities Rainbow Project,” a series of films about different Lgbtq issues, each set in a different location.
- 3/17/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Set up by Taiwan-based GagaOOLala, Gol Studios will act as an “incubator” for Lgbtq content.
Taiwan-based Lgbtq-focused streaming platform GagaOOLala is launching a production initiative, Gol Studios, to facilitate the financing and production of Lgbtq content.
Described as an ‘incubator and accelerator’, the website enables producers and distributors to upload their projects and connect with an international network of film professionals to source talent, funding, equipment and crew. The initiative is free and accepts projects of all formats, genres and stages of production.
The first projects selected for the platform include Hong Kong filmmaker Kit Huang’s trilogy Forever 17; the...
Taiwan-based Lgbtq-focused streaming platform GagaOOLala is launching a production initiative, Gol Studios, to facilitate the financing and production of Lgbtq content.
Described as an ‘incubator and accelerator’, the website enables producers and distributors to upload their projects and connect with an international network of film professionals to source talent, funding, equipment and crew. The initiative is free and accepts projects of all formats, genres and stages of production.
The first projects selected for the platform include Hong Kong filmmaker Kit Huang’s trilogy Forever 17; the...
- 3/17/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film centres on a dead writer who discovers he is living inside his own story.
Indonesian director Putrama Tuta is set to start shooting romantic thriller Happy Birthday Every Day in Jakarta on April 17.
Produced by John Badalu and Dewi Piay through The United Team Of Art, the film revolves around a dying writer attempting to write his masterpiece who realises that he is already dead and living inside his own story.
The script was written by Ilya Sigma, who also wrote Tuta’s award-winning 2011 debut Boy’s Diary. The cast is headed by Indonesian TV star Anjasmara Prasetya, who will play the writer, and actress Fahrani Pawaka Empel, who previously starred in Joko Anwar’s Kala.
“It’s a story, rooted in magic realism, about acceptance of death that tackles the subject in a positive way,” said Tuta.
Tuta’s credits as director also include rockumentary Noah Awal Semula. He is also...
Indonesian director Putrama Tuta is set to start shooting romantic thriller Happy Birthday Every Day in Jakarta on April 17.
Produced by John Badalu and Dewi Piay through The United Team Of Art, the film revolves around a dying writer attempting to write his masterpiece who realises that he is already dead and living inside his own story.
The script was written by Ilya Sigma, who also wrote Tuta’s award-winning 2011 debut Boy’s Diary. The cast is headed by Indonesian TV star Anjasmara Prasetya, who will play the writer, and actress Fahrani Pawaka Empel, who previously starred in Joko Anwar’s Kala.
“It’s a story, rooted in magic realism, about acceptance of death that tackles the subject in a positive way,” said Tuta.
Tuta’s credits as director also include rockumentary Noah Awal Semula. He is also...
- 3/15/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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