The Thailand Ingenious Tradition Company (THACCA) will provide 3 promising sophomore options from acclaimed Thai filmmakers at this yr’s Cannes Movie Competition, marking the tenth version of the Thai Pitch at Cannes program.
The pitching match, scheduled for Might 19-20 on the Thai Pavilion in Village Global, continues its undertaking of connecting Thai filmmakers with doable buyers, co-producers, funders, gross sales brokers, vendors and pageant programmers. The initiative has established a powerful observe document of launching a success Thai productions into the world pageant circuit.
This yr’s lineup options 3 filmmakers who’re following up their award-winning debuts:
Taiki Sakpisit returns with “The Blind Earthworm within the Labyrinth” after his Rotterdam Fipresci Prize-winning debut “The Fringe of Break of day” (2021). The brand new mission follows sisters Chareeya and Chalika who, after their folks’ deaths, grow to be entangled in want and haunted via recollections inside Bangkok’s shadowy underworld. Manufacturer Cattleya Paosrijaroen, whose credit come with Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cannes Jury Prize winner “Memoria,” is connected.
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Itt Patiparn Boontarig items “Ghost of the Currents,” which follows his debut “Solids via the Beach” (2023) that gained more than one awards on the Busan Global Movie Competition. His new supernatural drama facilities on a person who returns to his flood-ravaged Mekong riverside village the place locals consider a vengeful “River Ghost” is chargeable for the crisis.
Nontawat Numbenchapol, who effectively transitioned from acclaimed documentary paintings to fiction with “Doi Boy” (2023), brings “Ray of Gentle,” a class-conscious drama set on a movie manufacturing the place a lighting fixtures technician and main actress from hugely other worlds in short attach. Veteran line manufacturer Tanade Amornpiyalerk is generating.
All 3 tasks lately won investment improve from THACCA, with variety treated via a committee together with Thai filmmaker-producer Pimpaka Towira, International Movie Competition Bangkok director Donsaron Kovitvanitcha, and business veteran Raymond Phathanavirangoon, who will coordinate the Cannes conferences.
Earlier Thai Pitch luck tales come with “Arnold is a Style Scholar” (2022), “Anatomy of Time” (2021), “Die Day after today” (2017), and “Malila: The Farewell Flower” (2017), all of which secured world pageant premieres and popularity.
