Asian Producers Network
The Asian Producers Network (APN) is a platform for film producers from the region to deepen dialogue and discover opportunities for collaboration.
Since 2017, APN has provided participants with an environment for mutual learning and resource sharing. While this remains unchanged, the 2024 programme aims to significantly enhance the participants’ market exposure and engagement with the region’s film industry.
Led by programme specialist Fran Borgia, participants will meet with leading industry professionals through a series of closed-door guest lectures, individual consultation sessions and roundtable discussions. Topics to be addressed include project development, content production in Asia, and support from the international film festival circuit and granting bodies.
Over the course of the five-day programme and wider festival, participants will explore pathways and strategies to develop a feature film project with the intention and potential for international co-production.
Scroll down to view the participants of Asian Producers Network 2024, all of whom applied with a project in the financing or WIP stage. We’re excited to welcome them from 2 to 6 December at SGIFF.
2024 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 Tomorrow Is a Long Time, Tiger Stripes, Oasis of Now, and Stranger Eyes, the first film from Singapore to compete for the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival.
2024 Participants
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.