Tokyo Gap Financing Market, an event that takes places during TIFFCOM (October 29-31) to help feature-length film projects complete their financing, has selected 23 projects for this year’s edition.
The line-up includes several projects from Southeast Asian filmmakers, including Four Seasons In Java from Indonesia’s Kamila Andini; 1982 from Vietnam’s Diep Nguyen Hoang; and two projects from the Philippines – Filipinana directed by Rafael Manuel and Hum , directed by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan and produced by Alemberg Ang.
Several projects are being set up as co-productions with Japan, including a Japan-Korea manga adaptation directed by Korea’s Jang Kun-jae; a Japan-Taiwan project from Natsuki Seta ( Diary Of A Strange Land ); and a Spain-Japan co-production directed by Ped