Further winners included ‘Seeds Of A Nation’ and ‘Whispers In May’.
Upcoming documentaries Camels Of The Sea and Friday At The Window have won the top pitch prizes at South Korea’s Dmz Documentary Market.
The awards were announced on Tuesday (September 19) on the closing day of Dmz Docs Industry, the industry arm of the Dmz International Documentary Film Festival.
India’s Camels Of The Sea won the top prize of $37,700 (KRW50m) in the Global Pitch category, while Iran-Belgium-Norway-Qatar co-production Friday At The Window won the top award of $30,000 (KRW40m) in the Rough Cut Pitch category.
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Upcoming documentaries Camels Of The Sea and Friday At The Window have won the top pitch prizes at South Korea’s Dmz Documentary Market.
The awards were announced on Tuesday (September 19) on the closing day of Dmz Docs Industry, the industry arm of the Dmz International Documentary Film Festival.
India’s Camels Of The Sea won the top prize of $37,700 (KRW50m) in the Global Pitch category, while Iran-Belgium-Norway-Qatar co-production Friday At The Window won the top award of $30,000 (KRW40m) in the Rough Cut Pitch category.
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- 9/20/2023
- by Matt Schley
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The PBS series Pov today announced the lineup of films for its historic 36th season, a diverse slate highlighted by documentaries with Oscar pedigree.
The season kicks off June 26 with Jon-Sesrie Goff’s acclaimed After Sherman, winner of best documentary prizes at the Atlanta Film Festival and Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The Academy Award-nominated A House Made of Splinters makes its Pov debut on July 17. Simon Lereng Wilmont’s film creates a deeply moving portrait of Ukrainian children sheltered in a temporary orphanage, where empathetic caregivers tend to their emotional needs as war with Russia rumbles around them.
‘Children of the Mist’
Children of the Mist, premiering on Pov on July 31, earned a spot on the Oscar shortlist. Hà Lệ Diễm’s film centers on a Hmong teenager living in rural Northern Vietnam who resists a cultural tradition that permits girls to be kidnapped and forced into marriage.
The season kicks off June 26 with Jon-Sesrie Goff’s acclaimed After Sherman, winner of best documentary prizes at the Atlanta Film Festival and Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The Academy Award-nominated A House Made of Splinters makes its Pov debut on July 17. Simon Lereng Wilmont’s film creates a deeply moving portrait of Ukrainian children sheltered in a temporary orphanage, where empathetic caregivers tend to their emotional needs as war with Russia rumbles around them.
‘Children of the Mist’
Children of the Mist, premiering on Pov on July 31, earned a spot on the Oscar shortlist. Hà Lệ Diễm’s film centers on a Hmong teenager living in rural Northern Vietnam who resists a cultural tradition that permits girls to be kidnapped and forced into marriage.
- 5/4/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Pov has acquired the Oscar-shortlisted feature documentary Children of the Mist, a film that explores a disturbing tradition among Vietnam’s Hmong minority that involves kidnapping girls and forcing them into marriages.
The vérité film from first-time feature director Hà Lệ Diễm will premiere on the PBS series as part of Pov’s 36th season, which launches in the summer. The central character in the film is Di, a 12-year-old Hmong girl living in rural Northern Vietnam who casually flirts with a boy, then finds herself the target of a kidnapping which could determine the rest of life.
The Guardian called the documentary “shattering,” and awarded it four stars. In a review for the New York Times, critic Beatrice Loayza wrote, “‘Bride-napping’ is a Hmong custom that permits boys, often with the help of their families, to nab girls and detain them for three days. Throughout this time, the...
The vérité film from first-time feature director Hà Lệ Diễm will premiere on the PBS series as part of Pov’s 36th season, which launches in the summer. The central character in the film is Di, a 12-year-old Hmong girl living in rural Northern Vietnam who casually flirts with a boy, then finds herself the target of a kidnapping which could determine the rest of life.
The Guardian called the documentary “shattering,” and awarded it four stars. In a review for the New York Times, critic Beatrice Loayza wrote, “‘Bride-napping’ is a Hmong custom that permits boys, often with the help of their families, to nab girls and detain them for three days. Throughout this time, the...
- 2/2/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
In theory, international films can earn an Oscar nomination for Best Picture in any given year. But in reality, only a handful have ever attained that distinction, and a single one — Parasite — has claimed the prize.
For a truly global competition — international and American films contending in the same category — turn to the Best Documentary Feature race. This year alone, shortlisted documentaries vying for a nomination originate from China, Vietnam, India, Ukraine, Canada and the U.S.
Vietnamese director Ha Le Diem shot her shortlisted film Children of the Mist in a Hmong community in Northern Vietnam, where teenage girls are routinely kidnapped by male suitors and coerced into marriages. Di, the 14-year-old heroine of the documentary, flirts with a boy who soon abducts her and with help from his family tries to force her to accept him as her husband.
“New Year is the season of bride kidnapping, and it is allowed,...
For a truly global competition — international and American films contending in the same category — turn to the Best Documentary Feature race. This year alone, shortlisted documentaries vying for a nomination originate from China, Vietnam, India, Ukraine, Canada and the U.S.
Vietnamese director Ha Le Diem shot her shortlisted film Children of the Mist in a Hmong community in Northern Vietnam, where teenage girls are routinely kidnapped by male suitors and coerced into marriages. Di, the 14-year-old heroine of the documentary, flirts with a boy who soon abducts her and with help from his family tries to force her to accept him as her husband.
“New Year is the season of bride kidnapping, and it is allowed,...
- 1/12/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
By Glenn Dunks
The Academy may have released their shortlist for the Best Documentary Feature category, but we’re going to continue our A to Z skim through the 144-wide longlist as a means of playing catch-up before I do my annual best of documentary list for the year. Last time we looked at Shaunak Sen’s sorta-frontrunner All That Breathes, Paweł Łoziński’s Efa nominee The Balcony Movie, and Hà Lệ Diễm’s dark horse contender Children of the Mist.
Descendant
This week, themes of racism, authoritarianism and war are a heady and heavy mix. All of them come with some sort of Oscar pedigree, although only one has made it to the next round of the Academy’s race to a nomination...
The Academy may have released their shortlist for the Best Documentary Feature category, but we’re going to continue our A to Z skim through the 144-wide longlist as a means of playing catch-up before I do my annual best of documentary list for the year. Last time we looked at Shaunak Sen’s sorta-frontrunner All That Breathes, Paweł Łoziński’s Efa nominee The Balcony Movie, and Hà Lệ Diễm’s dark horse contender Children of the Mist.
Descendant
This week, themes of racism, authoritarianism and war are a heady and heavy mix. All of them come with some sort of Oscar pedigree, although only one has made it to the next round of the Academy’s race to a nomination...
- 1/5/2023
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Updated from original 12:39 p.m. story with details on Neon’s trifecta: Best Documentary Feature front-runners All That Breathes, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love, and The Territory are safely through to the next round after the Academy’s Documentary Branch whittled the list of remaining contenders to a shortlist of 15 films.
Fellow favorite Navalny from CNN Films— Daniel Roher’s documentary about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was almost killed in a Kremlin-devised poisoning plot–also made the cut (see full list below). The biggest surprise today came with the snub for Good Night Oppy, the documentary directed by Ryan White that follows NASA’s stirring 2003 mission that dispatched two rovers to the surface of Mars. The film backed by Amblin Entertainment won Best Documentary Feature at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards last month, a ceremony that saw White earn Best Director honors.
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Fellow favorite Navalny from CNN Films— Daniel Roher’s documentary about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was almost killed in a Kremlin-devised poisoning plot–also made the cut (see full list below). The biggest surprise today came with the snub for Good Night Oppy, the documentary directed by Ryan White that follows NASA’s stirring 2003 mission that dispatched two rovers to the surface of Mars. The film backed by Amblin Entertainment won Best Documentary Feature at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards last month, a ceremony that saw White earn Best Director honors.
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- 12/21/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the most acclaimed documentaries on the recent festival circuit is arriving just before the year closes out. Hà Lệ Diễm’s Children of the Mist, which landed on our radar at New Directors/New Films earlier this year, and picked up Best International Film at DocAviv and Best Director at IDFA. Capturing the coming of age of the indigenous Hmong community in the mountains of Northwest Vietnam, Film Movement will release the documentary on December 16 and we’re pleased to exclusively debut the trailer.
In a village hidden in the mist-shrouded Northwest Vietnamese mountains resides an indigenous Hmong community, home to 12-year-old Di, part of the first generation of her people with access to formal education. A free spirit, Di happily recounts her experiences to Vietnamese filmmaker Hà Lệ Diễm, who planted herself within Di’s family over the course of three years to document this unique coming of age.
In a village hidden in the mist-shrouded Northwest Vietnamese mountains resides an indigenous Hmong community, home to 12-year-old Di, part of the first generation of her people with access to formal education. A free spirit, Di happily recounts her experiences to Vietnamese filmmaker Hà Lệ Diễm, who planted herself within Di’s family over the course of three years to document this unique coming of age.
- 12/1/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Although Vietnamese law requires men to be at least 20 years old and women to be at least 18 before marrying, and the little known but rather inhuman custom of Hai Pu is illegal, the practice of a boy kidnapping a girl without her of her family’s consent is still regularly practiced in some Hmong communities, to the point that there are even rules established: Once the girl is at the hopeful husband’s home, his parents are obliged to contact the girl’s family, who can either demand her release or accept the marriage. A bride price, to be paid by the boy’s family, is then negotiated, while both spouses must also give free consent. Ha Le Diem, in her feature debut (made with a grant from Sundance Institute doc program), spent three years in a Hmong community in the mountains of North Vietnam, documenting 12-year-old Di, who finds...
- 11/16/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Belgian filmmaker Véronique Jadin’s first narrative feature, Employee of the Month, from the Paris-based international sales agent Reel Suspects. The dark comedy will roll out in theaters early next year, with a wide release across home entertainment and digital platforms to follow.
Employee of the Month follows the middle-aged Inès (Jasmina Douieb), who has long been a diligent employee of the small wholesale household products company, EcoCleanPro. Tasked with mentoring a young trainee, the sarcastic Melody (Laetitia Mampaka), Inès embraces her role. However, while she treats her work seriously, her male counterparts and her boss consistently belittle her, ordering her to do menial tasks.
With her patience running out and under Melody’s blasé gaze, Inès meets with Patrick (Peter Van den Begin) to ask for a raise. Surprisingly, the situation quickly spins out of control and an accidental crime is committed,...
Employee of the Month follows the middle-aged Inès (Jasmina Douieb), who has long been a diligent employee of the small wholesale household products company, EcoCleanPro. Tasked with mentoring a young trainee, the sarcastic Melody (Laetitia Mampaka), Inès embraces her role. However, while she treats her work seriously, her male counterparts and her boss consistently belittle her, ordering her to do menial tasks.
With her patience running out and under Melody’s blasé gaze, Inès meets with Patrick (Peter Van den Begin) to ask for a raise. Surprisingly, the situation quickly spins out of control and an accidental crime is committed,...
- 10/18/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Ha Le Diem’s film questions not just the ‘bride kidnapping’ tradition of this remote community, but also the supposed neutrality of film-makers
Di, the 13-year-old Hmong girl at the heart of Ha Le Diem’s shattering documentary, has a beautiful, infectious laugh that rings through the misty mountains of northern Vietnam where she lives with her family in a small village. With her big eyes and rosy cheeks, Di has an endearing mischievousness about her, but even in the games that she plays with other youngsters, the shadow of an archaic tradition looms large. At one point, Di and her friends pretend to act out a “bride kidnapping”, a Hmong custom that during the New Year celebration allows a boy to snatch a girl away and force her into marriage.
This practice was how her parents met, and it was also how her older sister was married at...
Di, the 13-year-old Hmong girl at the heart of Ha Le Diem’s shattering documentary, has a beautiful, infectious laugh that rings through the misty mountains of northern Vietnam where she lives with her family in a small village. With her big eyes and rosy cheeks, Di has an endearing mischievousness about her, but even in the games that she plays with other youngsters, the shadow of an archaic tradition looms large. At one point, Di and her friends pretend to act out a “bride kidnapping”, a Hmong custom that during the New Year celebration allows a boy to snatch a girl away and force her into marriage.
This practice was how her parents met, and it was also how her older sister was married at...
- 9/12/2022
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last...
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last...
- 9/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Film Movement acquires TIFF sales title, Camera d'Or nominee ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?’ (exclusive)
2021 Cannes Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last year.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last year and...
Film Movement has acquired North American rights from Wild Bunch International to Wen Shipei’s 2021 Cannes selection Are You Lonesome Tonight?
The story follows a man who believes he has caused a fatal accident and develops an ambiguous relationship with the dead man’s widow, while a police officer investigates the death.
Years later all three people remain tangled in a web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed.
Shipei’s feature directorial debut and Camera d’Or nominee played TIFF last year and...
- 9/9/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Films from China, Chile, Palestine and India picked up prizes.
Qui Jiongjiong’s A New Old Play and Maha Haj’s Mediterranean Fever picked up the top prizes at the Firebird Awards at the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff).
A New Old Play won the Firebird Award for best film in the Chinese-language Young Cinema Competition. The story follows a family of Sichuan Opera artists living through a tumultuous era and the prize rounds out a year-long tour of festivals that began with Locarno last August and took in Busan, Tallinn Black Night, Rotterdam and Goteborg among others. The...
Qui Jiongjiong’s A New Old Play and Maha Haj’s Mediterranean Fever picked up the top prizes at the Firebird Awards at the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff).
A New Old Play won the Firebird Award for best film in the Chinese-language Young Cinema Competition. The story follows a family of Sichuan Opera artists living through a tumultuous era and the prize rounds out a year-long tour of festivals that began with Locarno last August and took in Busan, Tallinn Black Night, Rotterdam and Goteborg among others. The...
- 8/31/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The delayed 46th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival wrapped Wednesday with the award of 13 prizes for its young filmmaker, documentary and shorts competitions.
Hailed by the jury as “one of this year’s most distinguished films both creatively and artistically,” Qiu Jiongjiong’s “A New Old Play” was named best film for the Young Cinema Competition (Chinese Language). “A New Old Play” is a tale of a family of Sichuan Opera artists living through a tumultuous era. It also collected the Fipresci Prize, with the jury commending the film for “its masterful approach and inventive visual style.”
In the global category, Palestinian director Maha Haj’s “Mediterranean Fever” was chosen as the Firebird Award winner for being “an all-rounded gem that is at once a thriller, social comedy, and odd couple bromance.”
In the Chinese-language category, Hong Kong’s Mak Pui-tung won the best actor award for “The Sparring Partner.
Hailed by the jury as “one of this year’s most distinguished films both creatively and artistically,” Qiu Jiongjiong’s “A New Old Play” was named best film for the Young Cinema Competition (Chinese Language). “A New Old Play” is a tale of a family of Sichuan Opera artists living through a tumultuous era. It also collected the Fipresci Prize, with the jury commending the film for “its masterful approach and inventive visual style.”
In the global category, Palestinian director Maha Haj’s “Mediterranean Fever” was chosen as the Firebird Award winner for being “an all-rounded gem that is at once a thriller, social comedy, and odd couple bromance.”
In the Chinese-language category, Hong Kong’s Mak Pui-tung won the best actor award for “The Sparring Partner.
- 8/31/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
A long form documentary shot over the course of several years in the hill valleys of Vietnam, Children of the Mist asks several uncomfortable questions of its audience and, indeed, its documentarian. Di is a young Hmong girl, a friend of director Ha Le Diem, and every scene is coloured as much by the eponymous fog as by a statement. "Always scared of what would eventually happen".
Near the start we climb a feature of the landscape that we will return to, in different contexts, days, weeks, months, years later. "This is the biggest rock around", and the different perspective it offers is one of several within the film. There is a tradition among the Hmong of bridal kidnap. As Di gets older, as her schooling continues, the day that something will happen gets closer.
Until it does, there is unease, and when it does, which almost goes without saying,...
Near the start we climb a feature of the landscape that we will return to, in different contexts, days, weeks, months, years later. "This is the biggest rock around", and the different perspective it offers is one of several within the film. There is a tradition among the Hmong of bridal kidnap. As Di gets older, as her schooling continues, the day that something will happen gets closer.
Until it does, there is unease, and when it does, which almost goes without saying,...
- 8/22/2022
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Di in New Directors/New Films highlight Children Of The Mist, directed by Diễm Hà Lệ (Ha Le Diem)
The mist rises fast in the northern mountain region of Vietnam where the indigenous Hmong community resides. Just as fast as girls have to grow up, because of an ancient marriage custom that takes place around the time of the Lunar New Year.
Diễm Hà Lệ with Anne-Katrin Titze: “My Hmong friends started to introduce me to their culture and I was very curious about this.”
Diễm Hà Lệ’s breathtaking documentary (a New Directors/New Films highlight and Best Directing award winner in the International Competition at IDFA 2021) tells the story of Di, who lives with her family in a remote village, surrounded by pigs and puppies and kittens and chickens who all live together in a big barn-like structure, complete with an open fire and cordoned off sleeping areas.
The mist rises fast in the northern mountain region of Vietnam where the indigenous Hmong community resides. Just as fast as girls have to grow up, because of an ancient marriage custom that takes place around the time of the Lunar New Year.
Diễm Hà Lệ with Anne-Katrin Titze: “My Hmong friends started to introduce me to their culture and I was very curious about this.”
Diễm Hà Lệ’s breathtaking documentary (a New Directors/New Films highlight and Best Directing award winner in the International Competition at IDFA 2021) tells the story of Di, who lives with her family in a remote village, surrounded by pigs and puppies and kittens and chickens who all live together in a big barn-like structure, complete with an open fire and cordoned off sleeping areas.
- 4/21/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Although Vietnamese law requires men to be at least 20 years old and women to be at least 18 before marrying, and the little known but rather inhuman custom of Hai Pu is illegal, the practice of a boy kidnapping a girl without her of her family’s consent is still regularly practiced in some Hmong communities, to the point that there are even rules established: Once the girl is at the hopeful husband’s home, his parents are obliged to contact the girl’s family, who can either demand her release or accept the marriage. A bride price, to be paid by the boy’s family, is then negotiated, while both spouses must also give free consent. Ha Le Diem, in her feature debut (made with a grant from Sundance Institute doc program), spent three years in a Hmong community in the mountains of North Vietnam, documenting 12-year-old Di, who finds...
- 3/15/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Set in the north of her homeland, Vietnam, Ha Le Diem’s IDFA competition entry “Children of the Mist” follows 12-year-old Di from the Hmong ethnic minority, living in the mountains and isolated from the rest of the population. Although she would like to study, the widespread custom of “bride kidnapping” on the Lunar New Year celebration could alter her future forever. The film, produced by Swann Dubus for Varan Vietnam and Trần Phương Thảo, is sold internationally by Cat&Docs.
“When I was a child, I was friends with these three girls. One of them got married off very young, which upset me a lot,” says the helmer, born in 1991. Coming from the Tay community herself, Diễm was introduced to Hmong traditions at the university, deciding to follow her protagonist despite not knowing the language.
“I saw her play with her friends in the mountains and it reminded me of my own childhood.
“When I was a child, I was friends with these three girls. One of them got married off very young, which upset me a lot,” says the helmer, born in 1991. Coming from the Tay community herself, Diễm was introduced to Hmong traditions at the university, deciding to follow her protagonist despite not knowing the language.
“I saw her play with her friends in the mountains and it reminded me of my own childhood.
- 11/25/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, “Line of Duty” finale dashes decades-old TV records in the U.K.; Netflix embarks on production of “1899” from the creators of “Dark”; and Purin Pictures announces 2021 funding recipients in Southeast Asia.
Ratings
BBC’s “Line of Duty” finished its sixth season with a record-breaking viewership performance of 12.8 million overnight viewers for a 56.2% share. The numbers dwarf last week’s series record of 11 million overnights, or a 51.7% share.
Putting those numbers into context, the BBC said it was the most watched episode of any drama since modern records began in 2002, not including soaps. To find something comparable, one must go back to February 2001 when ITV’s “Heartbeat” pulled an overnight audience of 13.2 million. Considering two decades of changing viewing habits and the introduction of streaming platforms, “Line of Duty’s” numbers are all the more impressive.
“Line of Duty” is created by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions.
Ratings
BBC’s “Line of Duty” finished its sixth season with a record-breaking viewership performance of 12.8 million overnight viewers for a 56.2% share. The numbers dwarf last week’s series record of 11 million overnights, or a 51.7% share.
Putting those numbers into context, the BBC said it was the most watched episode of any drama since modern records began in 2002, not including soaps. To find something comparable, one must go back to February 2001 when ITV’s “Heartbeat” pulled an overnight audience of 13.2 million. Considering two decades of changing viewing habits and the introduction of streaming platforms, “Line of Duty’s” numbers are all the more impressive.
“Line of Duty” is created by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions.
- 5/3/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Fund for Southeast Asian projects is handing out grants to two fiction and two documentary projects in latest funding round.
Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures is awarding grants to two fiction and two documentary projects, which will receive a combined $105,000, under its spring 2021 funding round.
Production grants are being awarded to Indonesian filmmaker Riar Rizaldi documentary Monisme and two dramas – Malaysian director Chia Chee Sum’s Oasis Of Now and Singaporean filmmaker Nelicia Low’s Pierce (see full details below).
Vietnamese filmmaker Ha Le Diem’s documentary Children Of The Mist has been awarded a post-production grant. It was previously...
Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures is awarding grants to two fiction and two documentary projects, which will receive a combined $105,000, under its spring 2021 funding round.
Production grants are being awarded to Indonesian filmmaker Riar Rizaldi documentary Monisme and two dramas – Malaysian director Chia Chee Sum’s Oasis Of Now and Singaporean filmmaker Nelicia Low’s Pierce (see full details below).
Vietnamese filmmaker Ha Le Diem’s documentary Children Of The Mist has been awarded a post-production grant. It was previously...
- 5/1/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
The Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) has unveiled 22 feature projects shortlisted for its Work-in-Progress Program. The project will take place exclusively online, running Aug. 26-28, 2020 in parallel with this year’s virtual Haf and FilMart Online.
Production of all the shortlisted projects has been completed or is near completion. They include ten fictions and 12 documentaries.
The fiction segment includes four films from mainland China: Zhou Ziyang’s “Wuhai,” about a married man facing financial difficulties; documentary filmmaker Qiu Jiongjiong’s first fiction feature, “The Neo-New Adventures,” telling the life of the 20th century’s top clown actor of southern Sichuan and his underworld journey to the Ghost City after death; “Summer Blur,” the first feature of Han Shuai, is a coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl; and Niu Xiaoyu’s “Virgin Blue,” about a girl trapped in her grandmother’s memories.
The Hong Kong contingent includes “Drifting,” about homeless people,...
Production of all the shortlisted projects has been completed or is near completion. They include ten fictions and 12 documentaries.
The fiction segment includes four films from mainland China: Zhou Ziyang’s “Wuhai,” about a married man facing financial difficulties; documentary filmmaker Qiu Jiongjiong’s first fiction feature, “The Neo-New Adventures,” telling the life of the 20th century’s top clown actor of southern Sichuan and his underworld journey to the Ghost City after death; “Summer Blur,” the first feature of Han Shuai, is a coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl; and Niu Xiaoyu’s “Virgin Blue,” about a girl trapped in her grandmother’s memories.
The Hong Kong contingent includes “Drifting,” about homeless people,...
- 6/23/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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