Singapore-based film production outfit Potocol, whose “Tomorrow is a Long Time,” by Jow Zhi Wei bowed at the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation 14plus competition, has revealed a diverse Asian slate.
Potocol’s recent triumphs include Bangladeshi filmmaker Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s Cannes selection “Rehana Maryam Noor” and Indonesian director Makbul Mubarak’s Venice winner “Autobiography.” The company, led by Jeremy Chua who is currently at the Berlinale, has a growing reputation for championing the rise of young filmmakers from across Asia.
Potocol has four films in post-production and several more in development. Nicole Midori Woodford’s debut feature “Last Shadow at First Light” is a supernatural road trip drama that follows a Singaporean teenager tracing the footsteps of her missing mother in Japan and explores the ripple effects of a traumatic event subconsciously buried within the family unit.
A winner of several project development and market prizes at Seafic,...
Potocol’s recent triumphs include Bangladeshi filmmaker Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s Cannes selection “Rehana Maryam Noor” and Indonesian director Makbul Mubarak’s Venice winner “Autobiography.” The company, led by Jeremy Chua who is currently at the Berlinale, has a growing reputation for championing the rise of young filmmakers from across Asia.
Potocol has four films in post-production and several more in development. Nicole Midori Woodford’s debut feature “Last Shadow at First Light” is a supernatural road trip drama that follows a Singaporean teenager tracing the footsteps of her missing mother in Japan and explores the ripple effects of a traumatic event subconsciously buried within the family unit.
A winner of several project development and market prizes at Seafic,...
- 2/18/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
It is produced by Marta Romanova-Jekabsane of Riga-based Kultfilma.
Escape Net, the second feature project by Latvian director Dzintars Dreibergs won the top prize at the Sofia Meetings co-production market in Bulgaria on Sunday.
The project is based on a true story set in Soviet-era Riga about a young woman who joins a basketball team in the hope it will allow her to travel abroad and meet her brother.
According to producer Marta Romanova-Jekabsane of Riga-based Kultfilma,around 70 of the film’s € 1.5m budget is in place and she is looking to bring other co-producers onboard to close the financing.
Escape Net, the second feature project by Latvian director Dzintars Dreibergs won the top prize at the Sofia Meetings co-production market in Bulgaria on Sunday.
The project is based on a true story set in Soviet-era Riga about a young woman who joins a basketball team in the hope it will allow her to travel abroad and meet her brother.
According to producer Marta Romanova-Jekabsane of Riga-based Kultfilma,around 70 of the film’s € 1.5m budget is in place and she is looking to bring other co-producers onboard to close the financing.
- 6/13/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
‘Day After…’ Helmer Kamar Ahmad Simon Shows That at the End of the Day ‘We Are All in the Same Boat’
Kamar Ahmad Simon started his “water trilogy” with “Are You Listening!,” about a family living on the coast of Bangladesh, struggling to keep their land from flooding. “Day After…”, the second part, conceived all the way back in 2013, has just celebrated its world premiere at IDFA’s international competition after being selected for the 2017 Cannes Festival L’Atelier co-production forum. But completing the film has been a “struggle,” admits the Dhaka-born filmmaker, who still intends to follow it with “Till the Last Drop,” which concludes the trilogy.
“It has been a very personal experience,” he says about continuing his journey to central Bangladesh, noting that after finishing “Are You Listening!,” he felt the project wasn’t complete. In “Till the Last Drop” he will head up north, where rivers have dried out, influencing people’s livelihoods and culture.
“When I was a child, the dock was my playground. That’s where I grew up,...
“It has been a very personal experience,” he says about continuing his journey to central Bangladesh, noting that after finishing “Are You Listening!,” he felt the project wasn’t complete. In “Till the Last Drop” he will head up north, where rivers have dried out, influencing people’s livelihoods and culture.
“When I was a child, the dock was my playground. That’s where I grew up,...
- 11/22/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Winner of El Gouna Golden Star for Narrative Film went to ‘You Will Die at 20’/ ‘Satamout fi aleshrin’ by Amjad Abu Alala.Very few films come out of Sudan, so it was revealing to see two here in El Gouna: ‘You Will Die at 20’, the debut film made by the young Amjad Abu Alala, and ‘Talking About Trees’, a doc about four veteran filmmakers from Sudan in the 1960s who are still going strong and fighting the good fight in a country torn apart by dictators and wars.
However, although Amjad Abu Alala is a Sudanese filmmaker and screenwriter, he was born and raised in the UAE, where he studied media at the United Arab Emirates University. As a producer and director, he wrote and directed numerous short films that participated in various festivals, including Coffee and Orange (2004), Feathers of the Birds (2005), and Teena (2009). His film Studio (2012) was supervised...
However, although Amjad Abu Alala is a Sudanese filmmaker and screenwriter, he was born and raised in the UAE, where he studied media at the United Arab Emirates University. As a producer and director, he wrote and directed numerous short films that participated in various festivals, including Coffee and Orange (2004), Feathers of the Birds (2005), and Teena (2009). His film Studio (2012) was supervised...
- 10/5/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Film revolves around Muslim cleric whose life is overturned by the death of Michael Jackson in 2009.
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawaris’s film and high-end TV production company iProductions has boarded Amr Salama’s drama Sheikh Jackson about a strict Muslim cleric obsessed with the late musical superstar Michael Jackson.
The move marks a first direct collaboration between iProductons and Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy at Cairo-based Film Clinic, whose recent credits include Clash, which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard last year, and the offbeat comedy Ali, The Goat And Ibrahim.
“It’s an interesting development in that it lays the foundation for a longer-term relationship between the two companies,” said Hefzy, hinting that other joint productions are on the cards.
Other Egyptian partners on the film, which is expected to debut at a festival this autumn, include Hani Osama’s The Producers.
Film Clinic and The Producers have a history of working together on titles including...
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawaris’s film and high-end TV production company iProductions has boarded Amr Salama’s drama Sheikh Jackson about a strict Muslim cleric obsessed with the late musical superstar Michael Jackson.
The move marks a first direct collaboration between iProductons and Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy at Cairo-based Film Clinic, whose recent credits include Clash, which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard last year, and the offbeat comedy Ali, The Goat And Ibrahim.
“It’s an interesting development in that it lays the foundation for a longer-term relationship between the two companies,” said Hefzy, hinting that other joint productions are on the cards.
Other Egyptian partners on the film, which is expected to debut at a festival this autumn, include Hani Osama’s The Producers.
Film Clinic and The Producers have a history of working together on titles including...
- 5/26/2017
- ScreenDaily
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