Busan’s Asian Project Market Unveils 2024 Line-Up With Returning New Currents Filmmakers & Seven Korean Projects
Busan International Film Festival has revealed the 30 projects that have been selected for this year’s Asian Project Market (APM), including several from Asian filmmakers who have previously had films selected for the Korean festival.
The line-up includes Dhakar Nagin, from Bangladeshi filmmaker Iqbal H. Chowdhury, who won Busan’s New Currents Award last year with The Wrestler. Also returning is Indonesia’s Wregas Bhanuteja with Levitating, after his film Photocopier screened in New Currents in 2021.
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Other returnees include Japan’s Sotoyama Bunji with Life Redo List after Soiree screened at the festival in 2020, along with Asian Film Academy alumni Aigerim Satybaldy, a Khazakh filmmaker who is producing Leg from Uzbek filmmaker Shokir Kholikov; Sri Lanka’s Ilagno Ram with Rabbit Hole; and Myanmar’s Lin Htet Aung with Making A Sea.
Established filmmakers in the selection include Hong Kong documentary filmmaker Chan Tze-woon with Nothing Happened, Filipino indie filmmaker Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, who focuses on indigenous and post-colonial narratives and will present Hum, and Malaysian filmmaker Woo Ming Jin with The Camford Experiment.
This year’s APM also features seven projects from Korean filmmakers, including A Way To étretat by Shin Suwon, Door-Frame by Jeong Beom, The Birds by Sohn Hyun-lok, Hellfire Club by Shin Aga, Ulaanbaatar by Kang Donghun, Strange Marriage by Jung Wonhee, and DO BYE Nursing Hospital by Oh Seyeon.
APM will take place alongside the Asian Contents & Films Market (ACFM), which runs October 5-8, during the Busan International Film Festival (October 2-11).
Asian Project Market 2024:
7 to 7 (India, Ghana)
Dir: Nemil SHAH
Prod: Nemil SHAH, Rajesh SHAH
90 Meters (Japan)
Dir: NAKAGAWA Shun
Prod: TSUJIMOTO Tamako, UTAGAWA Yasushi
Another Green World (China)
Dir: WANG Kejing
Prod: XU Jiahan, LIU Wenli, HUANG Yue
The Birds (Korea)
Dir: SOHN Hyun-lok
Prod: JO Su-jin
Burden to Carry (Japan)
Dir: NOHARA Tadashi
Prod: TAKATA Satoshi
The Camford Experiment (US, Malaysia)
Dir: WOO Ming Jin
Prod: WOO Ming Jin, Gerry KIM, álvaro VALENTE
The Chameleon Woman (Thailand, Vietnam)
Dir: Tanaseth TULYATHAN
Prod: Chartchai KETNUST, PHAM Gia Quy
Crocodile Rock (Singapore, US)
Dir: Kirsten TAN
Prod: TAN Si En
Dhakar Nagin (Bangladesh)
Dir: Iqbal H. CHOWDHURY
Prod: Iqbal H. CHOWDHURY, Tuhin TAMIJUL
DO BYE Nursing Hospital (Korea)
Dir: OH Seyeon
Prod: LEE Jinsook
Door-Frame (Korea)
Dir: JEONG Beom
Prod: JEONG Joeun
Hellfire Club (Korea)
Dir: SHIN Aga
Prod: PARK Doohee
Hum (Philippines, US)
Dir: Don Josephus Raphael EBLAHAN
Prod: Hannah SCHIERBEEK, Alemberg ANG
Kingdom of the Insomniacs (China)
Dir: KANG Bo
Prod: XIE Meng
Leg (Kazakhstan, Italy, Germany, France)
Dir: Shokir KHOLIKOV
Prod: Aigerim SATYBALDY, Paolo Maria SPINA, Silvana SANTAMARIA, Johann CHAPELAN
Levitating (Indonesia, Singapore)
Dir: Wregas BHANUTEJA
Prod: Siera TAMIHARDJA, TAN Si En
Life Redo List (Japan)
Dir: SOTOYAMA Bunji
Prod: IDE Yoko
Making a Sea (Myanmar, Thailand)
Dir: Lin Htet AUNG
Prod: Mai MEKSAWAN
Mangal – The Holy Beast (India., UK)
Dir: Triparna MAITI
Prod: Pooja CHAUHAN
Moments (Switzerland, Kurdistan)
Dir: Mano KHALIL
Prod: Mano KHALIL
The Murder of Crows (India)
Dir: Rinchin, Maheen MIRZA
Prod:, Anjali PANJABI, Rinchin, Maheen MIRZA
Nothing Happened (Hong Kong, China, Taiwan)
Dir: CHAN Tze-woon
Prod: CHAN Tze-woon, LUNG Kwok-yiu, Candy WONG
Rabbit Hole (Sri Lanka)
Dir: Ilango RAM
Prod: Hiranya PERERA
The Sickness of Yerevan (Armenia)
Dir: Ovsanna GEVORGYAN
Prod: Vardan HAKOBYAN, Ovsanna GEVORGYAN
The Testimony (India, US)
Dir: Bikas Ranjan MISHRA
Prod: Shiladitya BORA, Madhu SHARMA, Kunal KUMAR, Anshuman SINGH
Strange Marriage (Korea)
Dir: JUNG Wonhee
Prod: Jéro YUN
Ulaanbaatar (Korea)
Dir: KANG Donghun
Prod: JUNG Youn
Until That Day (working title) (Japan, Taiwan)
Dir: MATSUNAGA Daishi
Prod: OGAWA Shinji, NISHIKAWA Asako, CHANG Sanling
A Way to étretat (Korea)
Dir: SHIN Suwon
Prod: Francis C.K. LIM
Where The Mountain Women Sing (Mongolia, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark)
Dir: ZHANG Juefang
Prod: Patrick Mao HUANG, Kathleen I-Ying LEE
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