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[Press Release] Asian Project Market 2014 Selects 30 Official Projects
- 2014. 08. 19 14:19
[Press Release] Busan
International Film Festival (2014.08.19)
Asian
Project Market 2014 Selects 30 Official Projects
The Asian Project Market (APM), the biggest investment and
co-production market in Asia, finalized 30 official project selections.
As the primary co-production market in Asia, APM connects
promising film projects to interested investors, and approximately 200 projects
were turned into completed films since its inception. APM has been the
birthplace of prominent directors such as Kim Ki-duk, Lou Ye, Jia Zhangke, Tsai
Ming-liang. Previous APM projects include director Lee Chang-dong’s 2010 Cannes
Film Festival Best Screenplay winner Poetry
(2010), director Oh Sung-yoon’s most watched Korean animation Leafie (2011), director Bong Joonho’s
big hit Snowpiercer (2013), and 2013 Venice
International Film Festival Grand Jury winner director Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs (2013).
APM unveils original and creative
official projects and is expected to receive significant international
attention. New projects from established and new directors are on their way to
Busan. A total of 30 projects from 20 countries
were selected, reflecting global trend and interest in multi-national
collaboration.
APM 2014 Official Project List
In alphabetical order by project title
|
|
Project Title |
Director |
Producer |
County |
|
1 |
Blue
Sunset |
SHIN
Suwon |
Francis LIM |
Korea, Australia |
|
2 |
Clair-obscur |
Yesim USTAOGLU |
Marianne SLOT, Titus KREYENBERG |
Turkey, France |
|
3 |
A
Copy of My Mind |
Joko ANWAR |
Tia HASIBUAN, Uwie BALFAS |
Indonesia |
|
4 |
Diamond
Island |
Davy CHOU |
Charlotte VINCENT |
Cambodia, France |
|
5 |
Doggy
and the Gastronauts |
Dusan MILIC |
Undine FILTER |
Serbia, Germany |
|
6 |
Dora
(Working
title) |
July JUNG |
KIM Jiyeon |
Korea |
|
7 |
Edge
of the World |
SOHN
Soopum |
Park
Jooyoung |
Korea |
|
8 |
The
Family Ground (Working title) |
YEON
Sang Ho |
LEE
Dongha |
Korea |
|
9 |
The
Flag |
Firas
KHOURY |
Hany ABU-ASSAD |
Palestine |
|
10 |
Fowl |
Brillante Ma MENDOZA |
Larry CASTILLO |
Philippines , France, Germany |
|
11 |
FULL-MOON
PARTY |
Dang Di PHAN |
Thi Bich Ngoc TRAN |
Vietnam, France |
|
12 |
Hair
of the Dog that Bit You |
Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA |
Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA |
Sri Lanka |
|
13 |
In
the Beat of Night |
Mohamad AHMADI |
Shohreh GOLPARIAN |
Iran |
|
14 |
The
Killer |
Pema TSEDEN |
Sangye GYAMTSO |
China |
|
15 |
Learning
to Build a Fire |
Hannah ESPIA |
Giancarlo ABRAHAN |
Philippines |
|
16 |
The
Long Excuse (Working title) |
NISHIKAWA
Miwa |
NISHIKAWA
Asako |
Japan |
|
17 |
LOTUS
POSITION |
LIU Shu |
Isabelle GLACHANT, LIANG Ying |
Hong Kong(China) |
|
18 |
Mantra
- The Song of Scorpions |
Anup SINGH |
Saskia VISCHER |
Switzerland, India, France |
|
19 |
The
Master |
Nawapol THAMRONGRATTANARIT |
Soros SUKHUM, Donsaron KOVITVANITCHA, Cattleya PAOSRIJAREON, Attaphon NABANGXANG |
Thailand |
|
20 |
My
Happy Family |
Nana EKVTIMISHVILI, Simon GROSS |
Simon GROSS |
Georgia, Germany, France |
|
21 |
No
Land's Man |
Mostofa
Sarwar FAROOKI |
Mostofa
Sarwar FAROOKI |
Bangladesh,
India, USA, Australia |
|
22 |
Pokarekare
Ana: Yeon-Ga |
SONG
Ilgon |
Sebastian Dong Hun LEE, Catherine FITZGERLAD |
Korea, New Zealand |
|
23 |
Samui
Song |
Pen-ek RATANARUANG |
Raymond PHATHANAVIRANGOON, Arunee SRISUK, Rasarin TANALERTTARAROM |
Thailand |
|
24 |
The
Science of Fictions |
Yosep Anggi NOEN |
Edwin NAZIR |
Indonesia |
|
25 |
SIDE
HERO |
Vasan BALA |
Guneet MONGA |
India |
|
26 |
SIXTY
NINE |
Chi ZHANG |
Guipu HU, Wei YANG, Angie HENLE |
China, China |
|
27 |
To
All Naked Men |
Bassam CHEKEHS |
Behrooz HASHEMIAN |
France, Turkey |
|
28 |
The
Two Kings |
Nonzee NIMIBUTR |
Henry KO, Sandra GAVIRIA |
Thailand, USA |
|
29 |
UNEXCHANGEABLE |
ROH
Gyeong-tae, LEE Woo |
ROH
Gyeong-tae, LEE Woo |
Korea |
|
30 |
Vapour
of Smoke |
Lee Isaac CHUNG |
Eugene SUEN, Samuel Gray ANDERSON |
USA, Korea |
APM
2014 presents projects by globally recognized directors. Director Brillante Mendoza (Philippines), winner of 2005 Locarno International Film Festival Golden
Leopard and 2009 Cannes Film Festival Best Director;
2012 Busan International Film Festival closing film Television (2012)’s director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (Bangladesh);
director Pen-ek Ratanaruang
(Thailand) of Invisible Waves (2005),
invited to compete at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2006; and Vimukthi Jayasundara,
winner of 2005 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’Or, will introduce their new projects in Busan.
Projects of talented producers are
also selected for APM: Producer of The
Lunch Box (2013) Guneet Monga (India); Marianne Slot, producer
of director Lars Von Trier’s films Antichrist
(2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013); Director Hany
Abu-Assad, who received Jury Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival with Omar (2013) is visiting Busan as a
producer this time.
This year at the APM, many brilliant
Korean projects were selected:
Director Yeon Sang Ho, 2012 Busan International Film Festival triple crown winner with
The King of Pigs
(2011)
Director Shin Suwon, 2012 Cannes Canal Plus winner with Circle Line (2012),
brings Blue Sunset
Director July Jung, selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section
at the Cannes
Film Festival last May with A Girl at my
Door (2014), brings Dora (working title).
2008 Busan International Film Festival New Currents Award winner Roh Gyeong-Tae,
invited to the 2009 Cannes Film Festival ACID (Association for the viewing of independent
cinema with Land of Scarecrows) is expected to present Unexchangeable
at APM 2014.
The
Asian Project Market 2014 will take place for 3 days from Monday, October 6 to
Wednesday, October 8 at the BEXCO Exhibition Center II, Hall 4.
19th Busan International Film Festival will
be held Oct 2, 2014 to Oct 11, 2014.
Asian Film Market will be held Oct 5,
2014 to Oct 8, 2014.
Asian Project Market will be held Oct 6,
2014 to Oct 8, 2014
