Exclusive: Portmanteau concept extending to three new territories.
Hong Kong omnibus film Ten Years is being adapted into Thai, Taiwanese and Japanese versions, with a range of up-and-coming filmmakers and established talents, including Aditya Assarat and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Ten Years Studio, which produced the original film, has been working with production companies including Assarat’s Pop Pictures (Thailand), James Liu’s Joint Entertainment (Taiwan) and Miyuki Takamatsu’s Free Stone Productions (Japan) to extend the concept to these three territories.
“When Ten Years [pictured above] was screened at festivals around the world, audience members responded with much emotion and introspection; their enthusiasm sparked the team’s interest in producing international versions,” said Ten Years executive producer Andrew Choi.
“Although Ten Years was a film about Hong Kong, the questions it raised on political autonomy, social tensions and human values, were universal,” said Ng Ka Leung, who directed the last short in the Hong Kong version, and will executive...
Hong Kong omnibus film Ten Years is being adapted into Thai, Taiwanese and Japanese versions, with a range of up-and-coming filmmakers and established talents, including Aditya Assarat and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Ten Years Studio, which produced the original film, has been working with production companies including Assarat’s Pop Pictures (Thailand), James Liu’s Joint Entertainment (Taiwan) and Miyuki Takamatsu’s Free Stone Productions (Japan) to extend the concept to these three territories.
“When Ten Years [pictured above] was screened at festivals around the world, audience members responded with much emotion and introspection; their enthusiasm sparked the team’s interest in producing international versions,” said Ten Years executive producer Andrew Choi.
“Although Ten Years was a film about Hong Kong, the questions it raised on political autonomy, social tensions and human values, were universal,” said Ng Ka Leung, who directed the last short in the Hong Kong version, and will executive...
- 8/16/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Portmanteau concept extending to three new territories.
Hong Kong omnibus film Ten Years is being adapted into Thai, Taiwanese and Japanese versions, with a range of up-and-coming filmmakers and established talents, including Aditya Assarat and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Ten Years Studio, which produced the original film, has been working with production companies including Assarat’s Pop Pictures (Thailand), James Liu’s Joint Entertainment (Taiwan) and Miyuki Takamatsu’s Free Stone Productions (Japan) to extend the concept to these three territories.
“When Ten Years [pictured above] was screened at festivals around the world, audience members responded with much emotion and introspection; their enthusiasm sparked the team’s interest in producing international versions,” said Ten Years executive producer Andrew Choi.
“Although Ten Years was a film about Hong Kong, the questions it raised on political autonomy, social tensions and human values, were universal,” said Ng Ka Leung, who directed the last short in the Hong Kong version, and will executive...
Hong Kong omnibus film Ten Years is being adapted into Thai, Taiwanese and Japanese versions, with a range of up-and-coming filmmakers and established talents, including Aditya Assarat and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Ten Years Studio, which produced the original film, has been working with production companies including Assarat’s Pop Pictures (Thailand), James Liu’s Joint Entertainment (Taiwan) and Miyuki Takamatsu’s Free Stone Productions (Japan) to extend the concept to these three territories.
“When Ten Years [pictured above] was screened at festivals around the world, audience members responded with much emotion and introspection; their enthusiasm sparked the team’s interest in producing international versions,” said Ten Years executive producer Andrew Choi.
“Although Ten Years was a film about Hong Kong, the questions it raised on political autonomy, social tensions and human values, were universal,” said Ng Ka Leung, who directed the last short in the Hong Kong version, and will executive...
- 8/16/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Cash prizes handed out at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Netpac award and Fpp awards.
The 2013 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival held its traditional Night Market Party awards ceremony with Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s Thai film Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy taking the best Asian film prize awarded by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (Netpac) last night (Nov 21).
Based on around 400 tweets from a high school girl in Thailand, Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy won the award “for its freshness, originality and clarity in molding a structural concept into a cinematic portrait of youth and transcending it with poetry and humor.”
Project market awards
The Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) also handed out a raft of awards with Sung Hsin-Yin’s debut animation project On Happiness Road taking the Grand Prize of $33,800 or Nt$1m in cash (pictured).
Sung was also named the 2013 Taipei Film Festival’s Best Animation award winner...
The 2013 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival held its traditional Night Market Party awards ceremony with Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s Thai film Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy taking the best Asian film prize awarded by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (Netpac) last night (Nov 21).
Based on around 400 tweets from a high school girl in Thailand, Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy won the award “for its freshness, originality and clarity in molding a structural concept into a cinematic portrait of youth and transcending it with poetry and humor.”
Project market awards
The Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) also handed out a raft of awards with Sung Hsin-Yin’s debut animation project On Happiness Road taking the Grand Prize of $33,800 or Nt$1m in cash (pictured).
Sung was also named the 2013 Taipei Film Festival’s Best Animation award winner...
- 11/22/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Japanese comedies have never been the easiest films to market in the west. Whereas anime, horror, and classics from famous directors have a ready made fan base, non-genre fare and comedy is a tough sell. A new and unique production team is hoping to change all that by making their first film an international success and laying the groundwork for other, similarly-made, independent fare to follow. The film is Fuku-chan of Fukufuku Flats and the co-production team consists of Adam Torel of Third Window Films (UK), Sabrina Baracett and Thomas Bertacche of Tucker Film (Italy), James Liu of Joint Entertainment (Taiwan) and Stephen Holl of Rapid Eye Movies (Germany) along with the Japanese distributors. The combined weight of the group and the established networks of...
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- 11/7/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Japan-uk-Italy-Taiwan-Germany co-production of Yosuke Fujita’s Fuku-chan Of FukuFuku Flats
UK-based Third Window Films has announced an unprecedented Japan-uk-Italy-Taiwan-Germany co-production of Fine, Totally Fine director Yosuke Fujita’s upcoming comedy, Fuku-chan Of FukuFuku Flats, with distribution deals in place.
Naoko Arai is credited as planner and producer, and the film is being produced by Keiko Fujimura of Japan’s TV Man Union and Adam Torel of Third Window Films.
It has attached co-producers Sabrina Baracetti and Thomas Bertecche from Italy’s Tucker Films (they are also known as the heads of the Udine Far East Film Festival), James Liu of Taiwan’s Joint Entertainment and Stephan Holl of Germany’s Rapid Eye Movies.
They are all making equity investments and taking their respective territory’s rights.
The film stars popular Yoshimoto comedian Miyuki Oshima (GuGu The Cat, The Handsome Suit) as the main character Fuku-chan in what Torel describes as “a Tootsie-type of situation where a woman...
UK-based Third Window Films has announced an unprecedented Japan-uk-Italy-Taiwan-Germany co-production of Fine, Totally Fine director Yosuke Fujita’s upcoming comedy, Fuku-chan Of FukuFuku Flats, with distribution deals in place.
Naoko Arai is credited as planner and producer, and the film is being produced by Keiko Fujimura of Japan’s TV Man Union and Adam Torel of Third Window Films.
It has attached co-producers Sabrina Baracetti and Thomas Bertecche from Italy’s Tucker Films (they are also known as the heads of the Udine Far East Film Festival), James Liu of Taiwan’s Joint Entertainment and Stephan Holl of Germany’s Rapid Eye Movies.
They are all making equity investments and taking their respective territory’s rights.
The film stars popular Yoshimoto comedian Miyuki Oshima (GuGu The Cat, The Handsome Suit) as the main character Fuku-chan in what Torel describes as “a Tootsie-type of situation where a woman...
- 10/22/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp) has unveiled this year’s selection of 25 films chosen from a record 117 submissions.
The organization stated “these projects reflect the active and engaged state of Chinese-language film industry in all corners of the world, including: Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, UK, France, Us, Australia, and New Zealand.”
Nine sponsoring companies offer post-production service awards and this year, a number of them will be increasing their awards to equal the symbolic amount of Nt$500,000 (Us$16,900) to celebrate the Golden Horse Film Festival’s 50th anniversary.
The Fpp’s Grand Prize is a cash award of Nt$1m (Us$33,800). France’s Centre National du Cinéma (Cnc) also offers the €10,000 Cnc Award to support projects with high potential for international co-production.
The 2013 Golden Horse Fpp runs Nov 19-21 with meetings and workshops. They will announce the winners of the various prizes on the last day’s closing ceremony...
The organization stated “these projects reflect the active and engaged state of Chinese-language film industry in all corners of the world, including: Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, UK, France, Us, Australia, and New Zealand.”
Nine sponsoring companies offer post-production service awards and this year, a number of them will be increasing their awards to equal the symbolic amount of Nt$500,000 (Us$16,900) to celebrate the Golden Horse Film Festival’s 50th anniversary.
The Fpp’s Grand Prize is a cash award of Nt$1m (Us$33,800). France’s Centre National du Cinéma (Cnc) also offers the €10,000 Cnc Award to support projects with high potential for international co-production.
The 2013 Golden Horse Fpp runs Nov 19-21 with meetings and workshops. They will announce the winners of the various prizes on the last day’s closing ceremony...
- 9/26/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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