ScreenSingapore—Southeast Asia’s definitive marketplace for filmmakers, producers, distributors, financiers, and film buyers—has announced the finalists for the Southeast Asian Film Financing (SAFF) Project Market 2020.
There are 10 film projects that were selected based on co-production viabilities and the strength of the filmmaking team. Those come from countries like the Philippines, China, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.
Since its launch in 2015, the SAFF Project Market has emerged as a recognized regional platform for established and upcoming content creators to come together and present their projects to the international marketplace.
The finalists will be able to meet with financiers, commissioners, and investors who will be able to bridge them with the resources needed to take their projects to a global audience. The chosen projects will join the ranks of SAFF Project Market alumni who have seen their projects produced, undergo production, or acquire financing.
“The SAFF Project Market funnels expertise and resource from people all over the world and brings them ‘to-the-table’ with filmmakers for projects that have the potential for a worldwide audience. Their input gave me different perspectives that have been beneficial to the projects that we have in development,” said Anne Prado-Magadia, President of Atome & Anne Mediaworks, a previous participant.
Here are the 10 film finalists this year.
A Million Way to Return Home Country: Singapore Genre: Comedy/ Family Drama Language: Bengali/ English, Mandarin
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Chasing a Dream
Country: Thailand Genre: Musical Language: Thai/ English
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Discovered
Country: Malaysia Genre: Found Footage/ Thriller Language: English/ Mandarin
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Father’s Office
Country: Myanmar Genre: Documentary Language: English/ Burmese
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First Light
Country: Singapore/ China/ the Netherlands Genre: Near Sci-Fi Language: English/ Mandarin/ Dutch
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Hungry Ghost Diner
Country: Malaysia Genre: Supernatural/ Family Drama Language: Mandarin
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Kathoey
Country: Thailand/ the Philippines Genre: Narrative/ LGBTQ/ Drama Language: Thai/ Tagalog
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Sugar Sugar
Country: Singapore/ Thailand Genre: Documentary Feature Language: English/ Japanese/ Filipino/ Mandarin
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Swan River
Country: the Philippines Genre: Drama/ Thriller/ Survival Language: English/ Tagalog
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Zsazsa Zaturnnah Country: the Philippines Genre: Animation Language: English
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Asian and European producers
At the same time, SAFF Project Market 2020 brings Ties that Bind (TTB), a workshop project program that combines producer training, project development, and co-production meetings focusing on cooperation between European and Asian producers. This comes as part of the Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) and ScreenSingapore’s lineup of events.
A total of five Asian and five European producers with their projects under development have been selected as participants in the workshop, slated from November 16 to 30, 2020. These producers will have the opportunity to meet decision-makers at the ATF Online+ platform from December 1 to 4, 2020.
Dancing the Tides
Country: the Philippines
Genre: Drama/ Romance/ Queer/ Transgender
Company: vy/ac Productions
Fruit Gathering
Country: Myanmar
Genre: Drama
Company: Third Floor Production
Lost and Found
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Drama
Company: House on Fire International
Lost Daughter
Country: Denmark
Genre: Drama
Company: Beo Starling
Mrs Raffles
Country: UK/ Sngapore
Genre: Historical Drama Series
Company: 108 Media
Purple Sun
Country: Singapore/ Japan
Genre: Drama
Company: Jackfruit International
The Greenhouse
Country: Germany
Genre: Drama
Company: Funferfilm
The Rope
Country: Italy
Genre: Sci-Fi
Company: Nefertiti Film
Uk Kei
Country: Portugal
Genre: Drama/ Coming of Age
Company: Uma Pedra no Sapato
Youthfully Yours
Country: Vietnam
Genre: Drama/ Queer
Company: East Films