QCinema Project Market Unveils Twenty Films in Development
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Some twenty aspiring film projects have been selected to participate in the inaugural edition of the Qcinema Project Market (Nov.
18-19) that this year represents and expansion of the QCinema Film Festival in The Philippines’ Quezon City. The selected titles include development projects by several of East Asia’s better known independent and art-house directors and projects.
Among them is “Filipinana,” which on Tuesday collected three prizes at Busan’s Asian Project Market. Another is “Fox King,” by well-established Malaysian filmmaker Woo Ming Jing, which will also travel to the Tokyo Gap Financing Market.
Also lining up is established Singapore filmmaker Boo Junfeng and producer partner Raymond Phathanavirangoon with “Medium.” The 20 selected projects are vying for over $400,000 in grants and prizes, including a $35,000 co-production grants for Southeast Asian projects and $50,000 for Filipino projects. “From an impressive submission of sixty five projects from all over the region, these selected projects really stood out as the most promising and authentic, and we are truly looking forward to gathering them in Quezon City to have their one on one meetings with a curated list decision makers who can help bring their project to life through financing, coproduction, representation in sales and film festivals,” said Liza Diño, Quezon City Film Development Commission (QCFDC) executive director and project head of QPM. “The Burning Giants” (Thailand)Dir.
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