New tasks from Golden Horse Award winner Huang Ji, Indonesian actor-turned-director Reza Rahadian and US-Philippines actor and director Isabel Sandoval are among the many 15 Works-in-Progress chosen for this 12 months’s Hong Kong Asia Movie Financing Discussion board (HAF).
A Girl Builds is the newest function from Huang Ji and her common collaborator, Otsuka Ryuji, after successful greatest movie on the Golden Horse Awards for Stonewalling. The brand new movie follows a Chinese language lady who builds a home in her hometown whereas residing a pseudo-single life through the pandemic.
Rahadian’s directorial debut Pangku, starring Christine Hakim, explores a convention in a rural a part of Indonesia by which espresso retailers present girls to sit down in males’s laps while consuming their espresso.
Sandoval each stars in and directs Moonglow, a neo-noir about an ex-cop assigned along with her ex-lover to research a break-in on the mansion of a corrupt police chief. Arjo Atayde additionally stars. Deadline had the scoop on the film going into manufacturing ultimately 12 months’s Filmart.
4 tasks that had been beforehand chosen for HAF are at the moment being premiered at European movie festivals – The Fruit, from China’s Li Dongmei, performed in Rotterdam’s Tiger Competitors, whereas Berlin has chosen three HAF alumni titles – Chinese language director Huo Meng’s Residing The Land (Berlin competitors), Hong Kong filmmaker Jun Li’s Queerpanorama (Panorama) and Korean director Min Kyu-dong’s The Previous Girl With The Knife (Berlinale Particular).
HAF is going down as a part of the expanded HKIFF Trade Undertaking Market from March 17-19 on the Hong Kong Conference & Exhibition Centre, alongside Filmart (March 17-20).
HAF Works-in-Progress (WIP) tasks 2025:
* First function tasks
Ah Lady (Singapore)*
Director: Priscilla Ang Geck Geck
Producers: Charlyn Ng, Wendy Lie
Manufacturing Firms: Mixture Movies, In-Focus Asia (IFA Media)
Fuxi: Pleasure In 4 Chapters (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, France)
Director: Qiu Jiongjiong
Producers: David Tang, Ding Ningyuan, Zhao Jin
Manufacturing Firm: Rise Photos Co
Girlfriends (Macau, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong)
Director: Tracy Choi
Producers: Estela Valdivieso Chen, Jacqueline Liu
Manufacturing Firm: Serendipity Movies
Good Drink Pub (China)*
Director: Emetjan Memet
Producers: Wang Hongwei, Zhang Puzhongtian
Manufacturing Firm: Hangzhou Yidapai Tradition Media Co
Her First Style (China)*
Director: Gong Yiwen
Producer: Qian Yini
Manufacturing Firm: Yiwen Movies, Sparks Manufacturing
The Ink-Stained Hand And The Lacking Thumb (India)*
Director: Yashasvi Juyal
Producers: Anupama Chopra, Yashasvi Juyal, Viraj Sikand
Manufacturing Firms: Movie Companion Studios, Silvercord Movies
Moonglow (Philippines, US, Taiwan, Japan)
Director: Isabel Sandoval
Producers: Alemberg Ang, Isabel Sandoval
Manufacturing Firm: Daluyong Studios
Mom Bhumi (Malaysia, Italy, Hong Kong)
Director: Chong Keat Aun
Producers: Wong Kew Quickly, Stefano Centini
Manufacturing Firms: Janji Photos Manufacturing, Volos Movies Italia
Identify And Hair (China)*
Director: Li Jing
Producers: Liu Chang, Zhang Qianqian
Manufacturing Firm: Beijing Magic Time Movie Co
Pangku (On Your Lap) (Indonesia)*
Director: Reza Rahadian
Producers: Arya Ibrahim, Gita Fara
Manufacturing Firm: Gambar Gerak
Say My Identify (China, Hong Kong)*
Director: Liu Xing
Producers: Lyu Yue, Mo Jinjin, Duan Tingting
Manufacturing Firm: Star Lab Manufacturing
Form Of Momo (India)*
Director: Tribeny Rai
Producers: Kislay, Geeta Rai
Manufacturing Firms: Kathkala Movies LLP, Dalley Khorsani Productions
White Flowers And Fruits (Japan)*
Director: Sakamoto Yukari
Producer: Yamamoto Teruhisa
Manufacturing Firm: Chiaroscuro Co
Wild Nights, Tamed Beasts (China)*
Director: Wang Tong
Producer: Wang Xueyin
Manufacturing Firms: Emei Movie Group, Shenzhen Yi Yi Yi Yi Tradition Media Co
A Girl Builds (Japan, Taiwan, Singapore)
Administrators: Huang Ji, Otsuka Ryuji
Producers: Otsuka Ryuji, Kuo Ming-Jung, Fran Borgia
Manufacturing Firms: YGP-Movie, Island X Photos, Akanga Movie Asia
