SEAFIC Unveils 2020 Project Lab Participants1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLeading Asia-based filmmakers Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Fran Borgia and Yulia Evina Bhara (The Science of Fictions) are set as producers among the five projects selected to participate in the 2020 edition of the Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (SEAFIC). The lab provides eight months of development under the guidance of dedicated script advisers.
Palme d’Or winner, Weerasethakul and Kissada Kamyoung will produce 9 Temples to Heaven, a second feature by director Sompot Chidgasornpongse (Railway Sleepers). The story involves an outing that tests a family’s relationships and beliefs.
Borgia (A Land Imagined, line producer on Crazy Rich Asians) and Judith Tong are producing first film Amoeba, by Siyou Tan, a Singaporean filmmaker and visual artist, whose short film Hello Ahma played in Berlin and Toronto. The story focuses on a misfit girl in the 1990s.
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