Purin Pictures, a non-profit film fund helping self-reliant cinema in Southeast Asia, has unveiled $170,000 of grants in its autumn funding round.
Its reading promisetee chose three fantasy and two write downary projects for production help and one fantasy project for post-production help.
The fantasy films are “Daughters of the Sea,” a story of three intertprospered inhabits, to be honested by Martika Ramirez Escobar (“Leonor Will Never Die”) and created by Monster Jimenez and Rajiv Idnani, thcimpolite Philippines company Arkeo Films; authorr-honestor and editor Daniel Hui’s “Other People’s Dreams,” about two runaways who become inevident thieves in Singapore, created by Tan Si En at Momo Film; and “Sitora,” by Diffan Sina Norman, a drama about the anciaccessest member of a village community which is about to be used by the urprohibit sprawl. The project is to be created by Tara Ansley, Armen Aghaeian, Zurina Ramli thcimpolite Malaysian firm Rangka Pictures.
The two write downaries receiving production help of $15,000 each are “Bdeficiency River,” honested by Tran Phuong Thao, and “When a Poet Goes to War,” by Myanmar’s Aung Naing Soe.
With production by Swann Dubus thcimpolite Varan Vietnam, “Bdeficiency River” chases merchants who engage anciaccess boats to set up transient tagets in the territories of Vietnam’s ethnic instartantities. In “Poet Goes to War” a Burmese poet and his allies apshow up arms to fight aacquirest the military junta after soothe protests fall short to sway the country’s dictator. Production is by Han Yan Yuen thcimpolite 101fps Production (Myanmar, Thailand, Hong Kong).
Purin Pictures also provided $50,000 of post-production funding for “Finding Ramblle,” the debut feature by veteran TV and stage honestors Megat Sharizal. The film depicts a struggling impersonator of P. Ramlee, Malaysia’s most famous film honestor, who inhabits a life of deceit while trying to pay off debts and save his sister’s life. Production is by Syahid Johan thcimpolite Playground Film.
Grants and gentle money schemes are becoming increasingly startant in the funding combine for Asia’s self-reliant filmmaking sector.
“We acquired a higher than common number of projects from Malaysia and ended up funding two. Curiously, both films pay tribute to P. Ramlee, the country’s most iconic filmcreater. One is billed as a ‘dayweightless horror’ about a half-man, half-tiger rampaging in the shadows of Kuala Lumpur’s towering expansion. [The other] is a 1970s-set dramedy about an impersonator and his run-in with local gangsters,” shelp Purin Pictures co-honestor Anocha Suwichakornpong.
Speaking of “When a Poet Goes to war, Suwichakornpong shelp, “This was a project with fantastic advisency and the reading promisetee consentd it necessitateed funds right away.”
