Singapore-based film production outfit Potocol, whose “Tomorrow is a Long Time,” by Jow Zhi Wei bowed at the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation 14plus competition, has revealed a d…
Potocol’s recent triumphs include Bangladeshi filmmaker Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s Cannes selection “Rehana Maryam Noor” and Indonesian director Makbul Mubarak’s Venice winner “Autobiography.” The company, led bywho is currently at the Berlinale, has a growing reputation for championing the rise of young filmmakers from across Asia.
A winner of several project development and market prizes at SEAFIC, TorinoFilmLab, Talents Tokyo, Busan Asian Project Market and European Work in Progress Cologne, the film shot between Singapore and Japan is coproduced with Shozo Ichiyama in Japan and European Film Award-winning producer Bostjan Virc of Studio Virc in Slovenia.
The film is shot by Michal Dymek and sound designed by veteran Tu Duu Chih, known for his work with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang. Led by emerging producer, Sam Chua, who developed the project at Full Circle Lab, it is a coproduction with John M. Low, Patrick Mao Huang’s Flash Forward Entertainment in Taiwan and Iza Igel’s Harine Films in Poland.
Potocol has also partnered with Oh Youngjeong’s One Point Zero/One Plus Point in Myanmar, Ingrid Lill Høgtun’s DUOFilm, Charlotte Guerin’s Massala Production and Jean-Baptiste Bailly-Maître of Alpha Violet in France for the second fiction feature of Burmese director The Maw Naing, “The Women.
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