Fran Borgia
- Producer
- Editor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Fran Borgia was born in 1980 in southern Spain and is based in Singapore since 2004. Borgia is the founder of Akanga Film Asia. He was the producer and editor for "HERE" (2009), Ho Tzu Nyen's first feature film that was presented at the 41st Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2009; and for the medium-length film, "Earth", presented at the 66th Venice Film Festival 2009. Since then he has produced noteworthy feature films such as "Sandcastle" (2010), Boo Junfeng's first feature film that premiered at the 49th Cannes Critics' Week in 2010; "Disappearing Landscape" by Vladimir Todorovic, which premiered at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013, and "Mister John" by Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor, a UK-Ireland-Singapore co-production, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013. In 2015, he produced K Rajagopal's segment for the omnibus feature "7 Letters" (2015). In 2016, he co-produced Lav Diaz's "A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery" (2016), which won the Silver Bear Prize for "a feature film that opens new perspectives" at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. In the same year, he also produced two films that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival: Boo Junfeng's "Apprentice" (2016) at Un Certain Regard and K. Rajagopal's "A Yellow Bird" (2016) at International Critics' Week. In 2017, he produced Liao Jiekai's segment for the omnibus feature "667" that screened at 22nd Busan International Film Festival. In 2018, he produced Yeo Siew Hua's "A Land Imagined" (2018), that won the Pardo d'oro (Golden Leopard) at the 71st Locarno Film Festival.