Busan names 30 for APM 2015

The Asian Project Market (APM) heads into its 18th edition with 30 projects announced on Monday.

A small number come from familiar names, although none have direct NZ connections. In the game of 6 Degrees, the title with closest NZ link is Nandita Das’ Indian project Manto. Das was director of Shuchi Kothari’s 2008 feature Firaaq. (Later this month, Kothari will chair discussions hosted by Script to Screen and DEGNZ on Leslee Unwin’s India’s Daughter.)

Among the more established filmmakers presenting projects will be Indian Kanu BEHL, whose Titli premiered in Un Certain Regard last year. Indonesian Mouly Surya will present Marlina The Murderer In Four Acts. His Sundance-premiered What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love (2013) has become one of Indonesia’s most internationally successful films.

The one title from outside Asia is Hana MAKHMALBAF’s London Stories, follow-up to her 2009 Green Days which was well-received at Venice and Toronto. The London-based Makhmalbafs are an established filmmaking family. Hana’s brother will produce London Stories. Her father’s The President was selected at the Busan IFF last year.

Among the locals, LEESONG Heeil (Night Flight, Berlinale, 2014) is possibly the best-known.

Last year Vietnamese director Phan Dang Di took the headline US$20,000 Busan award for Full Moon Party, sequel to his 2010 Bi, Don’t Be Afraid which played well on the international festival circuit after taking two prizes at Cannes.

The Asian Project Market will run 4 – 6 October in Busan. Projects are listed alphabetically by title.

	Title	Director	Producer(s)	Country	Co-producer Countries
1	Acetylene Love	Adolfo Jr. ALIX	Ma. Lourdes GOPEZ/td>	The Philippines
2	The Adventure of Hanmeimei	KIM Junghan	AHN Dongkyu	China	Korea
3	Agra	Kanu BEHL	Kanu BEHL William JEHANNIN	India	France
4	Another Day in Baghdad	Maysoon PACHACHI	Talal AL-MUHANNA	Iraq	UK, France. Germany
5	Birdshot	Mikhail RED	Pamela L. REYES	The Philippines	Qatar
6	Bombay Rose	Gitanjali RAO	Clara MAHIEU	India	France
7	Brother	KIM Tae-yong	KIM Jeong-min	Korea
8	ChaChaCha	DO Quoc Trung	PHAN Dang Di TRAN ThiBich Ngoc	Vietnam
9	Gabsooni & Soo-ah	YANG Ik-june	KIM Joori	Korea
10	Glooming Flower	JEON Gyesoo	JANG Sojung	Korea
11	Ireesha, daughter of the elf king	CHANG Hyungyun	CHO Young-kag	Korea
12	London Stories	Hana MAKHMALBAF	Maysam MAKHMALBAF	UK
13	The Lottery Boy	TRAN DUNG ThanhHuy	NGUYEN Hoang Diep NGUYEN Trinh Hoan	Vietnam
14	Manto	Nandita DAS	Nandita DAS	India
15	Marlina The Murderer In Four Acts	Mouly SURYA	Rama ADI Fauzan ZIDNI	Indonesia
16	A Means to an End	YU LikWai	YU LikWai Francois DA SILVA	China	France, Hong Kong
17	No One Else	IGUCHI Nami	TANAKA Miyuki	Japan
18	Photographer’s boy	JEON Soo-il	JEON Soo-il KU Jae-jun	Korea
19	The Princess Spring		Guillaume GIOVANETTI	Turkey	France
20	Second Breath	MIN Yongkeun	SHIM Hyunwoo	Korea
21		ZHANG Miaoyan	Guillaume DE SEILLE	China	France
22	Smoke on the Water	TOMINA Tetsuya	HATANAKA Mina	Japan
23	Sunrise	Adilkhan YERZHANOV	Olga KHLASHEVA	Kazakhstan
24	Swallow	LEESONG Heeil	KIM Ilkwon	Korea
25	The Sweet Requiem	Ritu SARIN Tenzing SONAM	Ritu SARIN	India	UK
26	Tuition	LEI Yuan Bin	TAN Bee Thiam	Singapore
27	Unlosable	Rusudan CHKONIA	MichelleYEH	Taiwan
28	Venice	Rusudan CHKONIA	Rusudan CHKONIA Vladimer KATCHARAVA	Georgia
29	The Wasted Land	Eddie CAHYONO	Ifa ISFANSYAH Isabelle GLACHANT	Indonesia
30	Yellow Apples	Shahram MOKRI	Mohammad ATEBBAI	Iran