Taiwan and France to Be Feted at Bumper Venice Gap Financing Market

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefFilm and immersive video projects from Taiwan and France will be put in the spotlight at the Venice Gap-Financing Market, a project support event that is part of the Venice Production Bridge and the Venice International Film Festival.The three-day market will present a huge 63 projects from around the world in the final stages of development and funding, setting up one-to-one meetings and giving them the opportunity to close their international financing.The selected projects include: 33 feature-length fiction film and documentary projects, 16 immersive projects; 11 Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality projects; and 3 Biennale College Cinema projects.The market will operate as an in-person event Sept.

2-4, 2022, while the festival runs Aug. 31-Sept. 10, 2022. Among the highlight films from the featured territories are: “Be With Me,” a fiction film project by Taiwan’s Hwarng Wern Ying; “Tales of Taipei,” a fiction film with multiple directors; and “Who’ll Stop The Rain,” by Su I-Hsuan.

Hailing from France are: “The 67th Summer,” a fiction film by Abu Bakr Shawky; “Fanon,” by Jean-Claude Barny; and documentary “A Golden Life,” Boubacar Sangare.

In the immersive section, where both France and Taiwan are strong, are: “Amazing Monster!,” by Raphael Penasa, Allison Crank and Jonathan Droz; and Bliss Club VR by Camille Duvelleroy.