Asian Producers Network
The Asian Producers Network is a platform for emerging producers from the region to deepen dialogue and discover opportunities for collaboration.
This year’s edition will consist of two programme tracks:
① ᴛʜᴇ ᴀᴘɴ ᴛʀᴀᴄᴋ, which includes the full Asian Producers Network curriculum,
② ᴛʜᴇ ᴀᴘɴ+ᴇᴄɢ ᴛʀᴀᴄᴋ, which includes both the Asian Producers Network curriculum and the Eye Catcher Global-SGIFF Pitching Forum.
The Eye Catcher Global-SGIFF Pitching Forum is a high-level, curated platform for selected feature film producers across Asia, focusing on projects in the financing stage. Designed with a producer-centric philosophy, the forum offers participants the opportunity to pitch to a carefully handpicked industry-led panel, alongside targeted feedback and participation in structured meetings and strategic networking to achieve concrete outcomes such as project financing, co-production agreements and distribution pre-sales.
The Asian Producers Network curriculum offers a closed-door setting where participants can seek advice from industry experts through a series of guest lectures, individual consultation sessions and roundtable discussions. The programme will cover a broad range of topics, including project development and financing, international co-production, sales strategies, peer-to-peer review sessions, networking opportunities and access to key industry resources.
Call For Applications
Our call for applications for the Asian Producers Network runs from 30 July to 1 September, 1700h (GMT+8).
For enquiries, please write in to programme.2@sgiff.com.
In Partnership With
Inaugurated in 2021, Eye Catcher is a platform based in Hong Kong to nurture and showcase emerging filmmakers and their creativity. We aim to encourage the spirit of self-producing, to provide a launching pad for new-generation filmmakers to step onto the international stage, and to explore the upcoming trend in filmmaking.
The exchange platform, Eye Catcher Global (ECG), aims to bring together the creative and production communities of the Asian and international independent filmmaking industry. Embracing the spirit of self-producing and entrepreneurship, it attempts to create an exclusive international platform for connection, exchange and collaboration so that independent filmmakers may go further for longer.
Through a series of events, the ECG aspires to incubate and promote more independent films with unique visions, strong personal styles, and a wide variety of genres. It not only helps filmmakers obtain funding, awards and opportunities, but also introduces and facilitates the exchanges of experience and networks of international peers. The Eye Catcher Global 2025 starts in August, programmes include Eye Catcher Short Awards, Asian New Director Awards, Screenings and Industry Forum etc.
2025 Programme Specialist
Fran BORGIA
Spain / Singapore
Fran Borgia is the founder of Akanga Film Asia. He has produced critically acclaimed films such as A Land Imagined (2018), which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno. His latest producing credits include Tiger Stripes (Cannes Critics’ Week 2023 – Grand Prize), Stranger Eyes (Venice Competition 2024), Village Rockstars 2 (Busan 2024 – Jiseok Award / Berlinale Generation 2025), and Renoir (Cannes Competition 2025).
Annie Song
China
Dinosaur Boy
While preparing for the Hong Kong Football League, Jiaming accidentally digs up a “dinosaur egg” at school.
Bavaneedha Loganathan
Sri Lanka
Watermelon Girl
Amidst the Sri Lankan civil war, a mysterious fog draws a pregnant girl to a remote hillside village with a cursed past.
Boi Kwong
Singapore
Untitled project
When a series of elaborate and grisly murders rocks the entire city, Detective Cheng struggles to crack the case.
Harry Zhuang Weifu & Henry Zhuang Weiguo
Singapore
Bright Days
When a Roblox map turns students into monsters, three teens uncover a conspiracy and bravely fight for their freedom.
Haziqah Azemi
Malaysia
Garek
A troubled Muslim woman tracks her boyfriend down to marry him and escape jail for being pregnant out of wedlock.
Joel Neo
Singapore
At The Edge of The Sea
Strange accidents start happening when Nam’s father becomes the first in a series of men to fall into a deep sleep.
Khin Warso
Myanmar
A Bus To Tomorrow
A transgender bus driver faces everyday obstacles in his quest to lead a normal life and provide for his wife.
Koval Bhatia
India
Rehearsal for a Funeral
An aspiring actor from a village grapples with religious taboo and anxiety when cast as a corpse in a theatre show.
Lyza Anggraheni
Indonesia
RAIB The Most Mysterious Man
A leather craftsman returns to find strangers in his home and, while investigating, is driven to acts of persecution.
Nazgul Dolotkeldieva
Kyrgyzstan
18th Birthday
A girl tries to make her schoolmate fall in love with her when she finds out that she was born with both male and female reproductive organs.
Phạm Gia Quý
Vietnam
Portrait of a Misty Sun
In colonial Indochina, two young artists find their romance, dreams and hopes increasingly entangled with rising political turmoil.
Wilfredo Manalang
Philippines/USA
What’s Left of Us
In a world ravaged by a mysterious disease that erases memories, a family struggles to survive and stay together.