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NAFF Loads Up 8th 'It Project'

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NAFF Loads Up 8th 'It Project'
The Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) has selected finalists for the 'It Project' of its upcoming 8th edition, which will take place during this summer's Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan). The genre film project market fielded its largest batch of submissions yet, 171 pitches from 28 countries, before whittling those down to 21 projects from 12 countries, including a third from Korea.

Notable names on the Korean side include PARK Jung-bum (The Journals of Musan, 2010) and KIM Gok (BiFan 2012 opening film Horror Stories), while Australian stop motion animator Isabel Peppard (Butterflies, 2012) is one of the foreign names in the lineup, along with cineaste Pang Ho-cheung (Vulgaria, 2012), listed as a producer for a HK pitch.

Since its inception in 2008, NAFF has proven to be a fertile birthing ground for Asian genre fare, by first shining a light on films such as The King of Pigs (2011), Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (2013), The Terror Live (2013) and last year's The Raid 2: Berandal.

In addition to sit-downs with dozens of potential investors and distributors, participants will be for competing for $60,000 worth of cash prizes, as well as post-production support awards. This year's NAFF will take place over July 19-22, during the 19th BiFan, which will run July 16-26.

Check out the full list of this year's 'It Projects':

NO.

Project

Country

Director

Producer

Production Company

1

ABRACADABRA

Indonesia

Faozan RIZAL

Ifa ISFANSYAH, 

Isabelle GLACHANT

Fourcolours Films

2

ASTRID'S SAINTS

United States

Mariano BAINO

Mariano BAINO, 

Coralina CATALDI-TASSONI

Astrid's Saints, LLC

3

CONCEALMENT

Korea

HAN Jung Kook

JE Jeong Ju

Miin Pictures

4

GUN WOMEN: THE PATRIOTS

Japan, United States

MITSUTAKE Kurando

YANAGIMOTO Chiaki

 

5

I HAVE A DATE WITH SPRING

Korea

BAEK Seung Bin,

YOO Ji Young,

CHOI Chang Whan

 

Kirin Productions Inc

6

JUMP CLASS

Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong

Ming Qun LIU

Johnny Sya Chung LAU, 

Caroline KWAUK

 

7

LOST IN BORDER

Hong Kong

HO Hong

Gilbert PO, 

HO Hong

Film Plus Productions Limited

8

MOTEL ACACIA

Philippines, Malaysia

Bradley LIEW

Bianca BALBUENA

Epicmedia Productions Inc

9

NEVER DIE AGAIN

Korea

PARK Jung Bum

PARK Jung Bum

Secondwind Film Production

10

QUANTO T'AMO

Italy

Matteo BOTRUGNO, Daniele COLUCCINI

Laura TOSTI

KIMERAFILM SRL

11

RE:BORN

Japan

SHIMOMURA Yuji

FUJITA Shinichi,         

INOUE Midori

WORSAL CO.,Ltd.

12

ROCKY CHOY THE WONDER BOY

Philippines

Victor Louie A. VILLANUEVA

Daphne O. CHIU

Above the Line productions

13

SILK

Australia

Isabel PEPPARD

Lizzette ATKINS

Unicorn Films

14

SIX KILLERS IN A COFFEE SHOP

Singapore

Neil HUMPHREYS

Justin DEIMEN

Advent Media Group

15

SUNI

Korea

Red

 KIM Hyung Oak

Broccoli Pictures

16

THE ANIMAL

Korea

PARK Jae Young

 PARK Soo Young

KIM Film

17

THE BUNKER

Korea

KIM Gok

CHOI Jeong Rak,             

Chris WEATHERSPOON

Malgum Pictures

18

THE FOUR

Korea

LEE Seong Tae

 KIM Sang Su

 

19

THE HELL BANK HEIST

Hong Kong

WAN Chi Man

PANG Ho-Cheung, 

TSANG Kwok Cheung, 

LIANG Subi

Making Film Productions Limited

20

THE TAG-ALONG

Taiwan

Wei-Hao CHENG

Han-Hsien TSENG

Hank's Film

21

TIDE 

 Thailand

Disspong SAMPATTAVANICH

 

EPYX Productions
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