Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures has selected three fiction and one documentary projects for production support, and one documentary project for post-production support, in its autumn 2023 funding round.
Four of the projects are from the Philippines and one is from Indonesia. Purin Pictures co-director Anocha Suwichakornpong said: “This session, half of all the submissions we received were from the Philippines. Because of various local support schemes and a just-do-it mentality, Filipino filmmakers continue to create interesting and varied works.”
A total of $140,000 will be given out in this session to the following projects:
PRODUCTION GRANTS
($30,000 for fiction films & $15,000 for documentaries)
The Remotes – dir: John Torres, prod: John Torres
Prod cos: Los Otros (Philippines)
Two sisters with superpowers race against time to track a voice that controls human avatars, haunted by the revelation it could be their dead mother.
Filipinana – dir: Rafael Manuel, prod: Jeremy Chua
Prod cos: Potocol (Philippines, Singapore, UK)
New tee girl Isabel feels strangely drawn to Doctor Palanca, the president of the exclusive golf and country club where she works.
Jaguar – dir: Dean Colin Marcial, prods: Bernadette Ann Manlongat, Moira Lang
Prod cos: Reality MM Studios (Philippines, US)
Bowie, a lone security guard working the night shift, becomes the sole witness to a murder in his old condominium in the middle of Manila.
Bariles, dir: Sheryl Rose Andes, prod: Bryan Kristoffer Brazil
Prod cos: Manila Montage Inc (Philippines)
When seawater becomes warm, tuna fisherman from a small village in the Philippines have to face life they never could have imagined.
POST-PRODUCTION GRANTS
($50,000 for fiction films & $35,000 for documentaries)
Planet Of Love, dir: Ika Wulandari, prod: John Badalu
Prod cos: One Take Media (Indonesia)
A nanny who works in an orphanage for children with HIV takes care of her stubborn grandson, one of the foster children at the orphanage.