Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant has revealed the 30 initiatives which have been chosen for this 12 months’s Asian Venture Market (APM), together with a number of from Asian filmmakers who’ve beforehand had movies chosen for the Korean competition.
The road-up contains Dhakar Nagin, from Bangladeshi filmmaker Iqbal H. Chowdhury, who gained Busan’s New Currents Award final 12 months with The Wrestler. Additionally returning is Indonesia’s Wregas Bhanuteja with Levitating, after his movie Photocopier screened in New Currents in 2021.
Different returnees embody Japan’s Sotoyama Bunji with Life Redo Listing after Soiree screened on the competition in 2020, together with Asian Movie Academy alumni Aigerim Satybaldy, a Khazakh filmmaker who’s producing Leg from Uzbek filmmaker Shokir Kholikov; Sri Lanka’s Ilagno Ram with Rabbit Gap; and Myanmar’s Lin Htet Aung with Making A Sea.
Established filmmakers within the choice embody Hong Kong documentary filmmaker Chan Tze-woon with Nothing Occurred, Filipino indie filmmaker Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, who focuses on indigenous and post-colonial narratives and can current Hum, and Malaysian filmmaker Woo Ming Jin with The Camford Experiment.
This 12 months’s APM additionally options seven initiatives from Korean filmmakers, together with A Approach To Étretat by Shin Suwon, Door-Body by Jeong Beom, The Birds by Sohn Hyun-lok, Hellfire Membership by Shin Aga, Ulaanbaatar by Kang Donghun, Unusual Marriage by Jung Wonhee, and DO BYE Nursing Hospital by Oh Seyeon.
APM will happen alongside the Asian Contents & Movies Market (ACFM), which runs October 5-8, in the course of the Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant (October 2-11).
Asian Venture Market 2024:
7 to 7 (India, Ghana)
Dir: Nemil SHAH
Prod: Nemil SHAH, Rajesh SHAH
90 Meters (Japan)
Dir: NAKAGAWA Shun
Prod: TSUJIMOTO Tamako, UTAGAWA Yasushi
One other Inexperienced World (China)
Dir: WANG Kejing
Prod: XU Jiahan, LIU Wenli, HUANG Yue
The Birds (Korea)
Dir: SOHN Hyun-lok
Prod: JO Su-jin
Burden to Carry (Japan)
Dir: NOHARA Tadashi
Prod: TAKATA Satoshi
The Camford Experiment (US, Malaysia)
Dir: WOO Ming Jin
Prod: WOO Ming Jin, Gerry KIM, Álvaro VALENTE
The Chameleon Girl (Thailand, Vietnam)
Dir: Tanaseth TULYATHAN
Prod: Chartchai KETNUST, PHAM Gia Quy
Crocodile Rock (Singapore, US)
Dir: Kirsten TAN
Prod: TAN Si En
Dhakar Nagin (Bangladesh)
Dir: Iqbal H. CHOWDHURY
Prod: Iqbal H. CHOWDHURY, Tuhin TAMIJUL
DO BYE Nursing Hospital (Korea)
Dir: OH Seyeon
Prod: LEE Jinsook
Door-Body (Korea)
Dir: JEONG Beom
Prod: JEONG Joeun
Hellfire Membership (Korea)
Dir: SHIN Aga
Prod: PARK Doohee
Hum (Philippines, US)
Dir: Don Josephus Raphael EBLAHAN
Prod: Hannah SCHIERBEEK, Alemberg ANG
Kingdom of the Insomniacs (China)
Dir: KANG Bo
Prod: XIE Meng
Leg (Kazakhstan, Italy, Germany, France)
Dir: Shokir KHOLIKOV
Prod: Aigerim SATYBALDY, Paolo Maria SPINA, Silvana SANTAMARIA, Johann CHAPELAN
Levitating (Indonesia, Singapore)
Dir: Wregas BHANUTEJA
Prod: Siera TAMIHARDJA, TAN Si En
Life Redo Listing (Japan)
Dir: SOTOYAMA Bunji
Prod: IDE Yoko
Making a Sea (Myanmar, Thailand)
Dir: Lin Htet AUNG
Prod: Mai MEKSAWAN
Mangal – The Holy Beast (India., UK)
Dir: Triparna MAITI
Prod: Pooja CHAUHAN
Moments (Switzerland, Kurdistan)
Dir: Mano KHALIL
Prod: Mano KHALIL
The Homicide of Crows (India)
Dir: Rinchin, Maheen MIRZA
Prod:, Anjali PANJABI, Rinchin, Maheen MIRZA
Nothing Occurred (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan)
Dir: CHAN Tze-woon
Prod: CHAN Tze-woon, LUNG Kwok-yiu, Sweet WONG
Rabbit Gap (Sri Lanka)
Dir: Ilango RAM
Prod: Hiranya PERERA
The Illness of Yerevan (Armenia)
Dir: Ovsanna GEVORGYAN
Prod: Vardan HAKOBYAN, Ovsanna GEVORGYAN
The Testimony (India, US)
Dir: Bikas Ranjan MISHRA
Prod: Shiladitya BORA, Madhu SHARMA, Kunal KUMAR, Anshuman SINGH
Unusual Marriage (Korea)
Dir: JUNG Wonhee
Prod: Jéro YUN
Ulaanbaatar (Korea)
Dir: KANG Donghun
Prod: JUNG Youn
Till That Day (working title) (Japan, Taiwan)
Dir: MATSUNAGA Daishi
Prod: OGAWA Shinji, NISHIKAWA Asako, CHANG Sanling
A Option to Étretat (Korea)
Dir: SHIN Suwon
Prod: Francis C.Okay. LIM
The place The Mountain Ladies Sing (Mongolia, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark)
Dir: ZHANG Juefang
Prod: Patrick Mao HUANG, Kathleen I-Ying LEE
