Another Country Dir Jeon Soo-il Country of origin South Korea


Having just wrapped shooting on his latest feature Padre Park in Peru, South Korean director Jeon Soo-il is wast- ing no time getting started on his next project, Another Country, which will be set in France. Currently at the script stage, it is a road movie about a


husband trying to track down his wife after she goes missing on the first night of their honeymoon in Paris. “It is based on a true story that happened about 20


years ago to Korean honeymooners in Paris. The hus- band found his wife a year later in the Southern port city of Marseilles,” says Jeon. The main theme of the film is identity. “It is a story


about how a man goes about finding his wife, encounter- ing people of different races and cultures, and how through this process, he finds himself,” says Jeon, who plans to shoot on location in Paris and Marseilles to cre- ate the right atmosphere of diverse immigrant cultures. “The places will be as important as the characters in


this film,” says the director, who is no stranger to France, having studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle and at the University of Paris. He plans to complete the script by this summer, while at the same time hunting for locations. Michelle Son, head of M-Line Distribution, is attached


as producer and brings to the project her international expertise. The film will be produced through Jeon’s own production company, Dongnyuk Film, which also turned out his previous independent arthouse films With A Girl Of Black Soil (2007), Himalaya, Where The Wind Dwells (2008) and I Came From Busan (2009), all of which have made him a regular at international film festivals. With $200,000 of the project’s $1m budget raised, the team will be looking for funds at HAF.


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Tang Wong Dir Kongdej Jaturanrasmee Country of origin Thailand


Thai screenwriter and director Kongdej Jaturanrasmee has two reasons to attend the Hong Kong International Film Festival. As well as showcasing his latest feature P-047, he will be in town to attract backing for his new project Tang Wong, a comedy drama about the conflict between traditional spirituality and modern beliefs in Thailand. Jaturanrasmee has written the script for Tang Wong,


which centres around four teenage boys who promise to perform a traditional dance at a Thai shrine in exchange for their dreams coming true, but are reluctant to go through with the routine when their wishes are granted. Producer Soros Sukhum believes there are similarities


between P-047 — which screened at the Venice Film Fes- tival last year — and Jaturanrasmee’s new film, which is being made through Song Sound Production, the com- pany set up by Sukhum and Jaturanrasmee to produce features (including P-047), shorts, music videos and commercials. “Both films deal with the subject of identity. P-047


talks about finding human identity while Tang Wong raises a bigger question of what really is the identity of a nation. The film seeks to talk about Thai society’s conflict with traditional spirituality in the face of modern scien- tific beliefs and international cultures,” says Sukhum, who has worked with directors including Aditya Assarat on Wonderful Town and Sivaroj Kongsakul on Eternity. Currently in pre-production with a cast made up


largely of non-professional actors, the pair have already raised $170,000 of their budget via the Thai Ministry of Culture and private financing. With shooting due to begin in April, they will be hoping to attract co-produc- ers and sales agents who can bring in funds and/or post- production and pre-sales.


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Flowing Stories Dir Jessey Tsang Tsui-shan Country of origin Hong Kong-France-UK


Jessey Tsang Tsui-shan’s documentary feature Flowing Stories revolves around the 500-year-old Ho Chung village in Hong Kong’s New Territories in which she grew up. Almost half the village has emigrated overseas since


the 1960s, mostly to the UK and France. Using the Ho Chung river as a central motif, Tsang aims to create a visual history of Hong Kong’s disappearing village tradi- tions, at the same time as exploring wider issues such as migration and the notion of home. “I was one of those people who travelled, but basically


stayed in the village, so as I was growing up I became interested in whether our concept of ‘home’ is mental or physical,” Tsang explains. Tsang has already interviewed some of the village’s


former inhabitants in their current homes in Paris, Cal- ais, Edinburgh and London and recently returned to Hong Kong to shoot the local scenes. She also plans to mix in old family photos and archival footage, and hopes to include some animation sequences to recreate villag- ers’ memories, which would be difficult to film. During HAF, Tsang and her producer Teresa Kwong


hope to secure funds for post-production and find an international sales agent or distributor. A graduate of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing


Arts, Tsang’s credits also include award-winning short Lonely Planet and debut feature Lovers On The Road (2008), about a couple who break up after moving to Beijing. Her second feature, Big Blue Lake (2011), was a fictional, but partly auto-biographical, account of a young woman returning to Ho Chung village after work- ing overseas to find her mother suffering from Alzheim- er’s disease and her father out of town. Kwong, who produced Tsang’s previous two features,


is also senior programme manager of the Hong Kong Arts Centre and director of talent incubator ifva. Liz Shackleton


Another Country


Budget $1m Finance raised to date: $200,000 from private funds Contact Jina Kim


sales@mline-distribution.com Tang Wong


Budget $450,000 Finance raised to date $170,000 from the Thai Ministry of Culture and private funds Contact Soros Sukhum


n 14 Screen International at Filmart March 20, 2012 bbunghim@yahoo.com Flowing Stories


Budget $130,000 Finance raised to date $38,000 from Hong Kong’s Arts Development Council and Pure Art Foundation Contact Teresa Kwong, River Vision Production kwongps27@gmail.com


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