Vietnam Stands Out in Purin Pictures’ Autumn 2020 Funding Round1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures has announced its grantees for autumn 2020, including three projects from the burgeoning Vietnamese film industry.
The three Vietnamese projects, which will receive production grants ($30,000 for fiction and $15,000 for documentaries), include Ash Mayfair’s Skin Of Youth, Pham Thien An’s Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell, produced by Singapore’s Jeremy Chua, and Minh Quy Truong’s Viet And Nam, produced by Bradley Liew in the Philippines.
The fourth project to receive a Purin Pictures production grant is Thai filmmaker Aekaphong Saransate’s documentary, Breaking The Cycle, about the current wave of political activism in Thailand (see details below).
Purin Pictures has also handed out two post-production grants ($50,000 in services for fiction and $30,000 in services for docs) to Indonesian filmmaker Edwin’s Vengenace Is Mine, All Other Pay Cash and Thai documentary Hours Of Ours, from Komtouch Napattaloong, about a Sundanese refugee family in Thailand. Edwin’s project is also taking part in this week’s Tokyo Gap Financing Market at TIFFCOM.
Image credit: Photo of Ash Mayfair via Purin Pictures
