Six projects from Southeast Asia vie for funds in the World Film Festival of Bangkok's Produire au Sud

Indie filmmakers from Southeast Asia get a chance to learn about scoring cash to make their movies as part of the World Film Festival of Bangkok in the Produire au Sud (Producing in the South) workshop.

Supported by the French embassy and the Festival of Three Continents in Nantes, France, the biennial workshop will be held from October 29 to November 1 at Paragon Cineplex. Six producer-director teams have been chosen:

- "The Tour" by Joanna Lee and Chris Chong (Malaysia).

- "Shadows of Noon", by Elisse Aquino and Ivy Universe Baldosa (Philippines).

- "Balaan" by Oscar Nava and Ray Gibraltar (Philip-pines)

- "Remembrance" by Eloisa Espino-Sanchez and Seymour Sanchez (Philippines).

-"Stratosphere" by Has-saya Rimphanawat and Pata-vee Viranuvat (Thailand),

- "I Carried You Home" by Thacksakorn Pradubpongsa and Tongpong Chantarangkul (Thailand).

One of the six projects will go on to the main workshop at the Nantes festival.

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JUST A MOMENT

>>"A Moment in June", the opener of this year's World Film Festival of Bangkok was the first project from Produire au Sud Bangkok.

>>"In What City Does It Live?" by Malaysian director Liew Seng Tat was selected in 2006. It is stil in development.

>> Check it out at www.3Continents.com.