Berlinale Choice ‘Tomorrow is a Lengthy Time’ Producer Potocol Reveals Various Slate (EXCLUSIVE)

Singapore-based movie manufacturing outfit Potocol, whose “Tomorrow is a Lengthy Time,” by Jow Zhi Wei bowed on the Berlin Movie Pageant’s Technology 14plus competitors, has revealed a various Asian slate.

Potocol’s current triumphs embrace Bangladeshi filmmaker Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s Cannes choice “Rehana Maryam Noor” and Indonesian director Makbul Mubarak’s Venice winner “Autobiography.” The corporate, led by Jeremy Chua who’s at present on the Berlinale, has a rising repute for championing the rise of younger filmmakers from throughout Asia.

Potocol has 4 movies in post-production and a number of other extra in growth. Nicole Midori Woodford’s debut characteristic “Final Shadow at First Gentle” is a supernatural street journey drama that follows a Singaporean teenager tracing the footsteps of her lacking mom in Japan and explores the ripple results of a traumatic occasion subconsciously buried throughout the household unit.

A winner of a number of venture growth and market prizes at SEAFIC, TorinoFilmLab, Abilities Tokyo, Busan Asian Venture Market and European Work in Progress Cologne, the movie shot between Singapore and Japan is coproduced with Shozo Ichiyama in Japan and European Movie Award-winning producer Bostjan Virc of Studio Virc in Slovenia.

Former fencing champion Nelicia Low’s debut “Pierce,” which received the LAVALabs prize on the 2022 version of European Work In Progress Cologne, is a psychological crime drama that dives into the tension-filled world of a meek teenage fencer struggling to cope with the sudden return of his sociopathic brother from juvenile jail as he grapples with learn how to save his brother from his internal demons.

The movie is shot by Michal Dymek (“EO”) and sound designed by veteran Tu Duu Chih, identified for his work with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang. Led by rising producer, Sam Chua, who developed the venture at Full Circle Lab, it’s a coproduction with John M. Low, Patrick Mao Huang’s Flash Ahead Leisure in Taiwan and Iza Igel’s Harine Movies in Poland.

Potocol is working with Tran Van Thi’s JK Movie in Vietnam and Marie Dubas’ Duexième Ligne Movies in France to finish Pham Thien An’s first characteristic, “Contained in the Yellow Cocoon Shell.” Pham’s single-take brief movie “Keep Awake, Be Prepared” received the Illy Prize at Cannes in 2019. The movie follows the philosophical quest of a stressed man toiling within the metropolis who’s instantly bestowed the duty of bringing the physique of his useless sister-in-law again to his countryside hometown after a freak accident whereas trying to find his vanished brother to return his younger nephew who survived.

Potocol has additionally partnered with Oh Youngjeong’s One Level Zero/One Plus Level in Myanmar, Ingrid Lill Høgtun’s DUOFilm, Charlotte Guerin’s Massala Manufacturing and Jean-Baptiste Bailly-Maître of Alpha Violet in France for the second fiction characteristic of Burmese director The Maw Naing, “The Girls.” After taking part at Cannes Cinéfondation L’Atelier and profitable the Imaginative and prescient Sud Est and Sorfond awards at Locarno Open Doorways, the venture confronted turbulence in preproduction throughout the navy coup of 2021 in Myanmar and was shot in complete secrecy final yr.

Impressed by an precise girls’s strike in 2014, the movie tells the story of a teenage lady working in a garment manufacturing unit to feed her younger siblings who bands with a gaggle of fellow younger girls employees to strike in opposition to a tyrant manufacturing unit boss and unpaid wages whereas the specter of the navy police is dangerously shut outdoors the manufacturing unit compound.

Potocol’s 2023 characteristic growth slate is overseen by Jeremy Chua, Sam Chua and Bambby Cheuk.

It contains “Filipiñana” by 2020 Berlinale Silver Bear Quick winner Rafael Manuel from the Philippines; “Penumbra” by Singaporean movie and visible artist Russell Morton who shot Kenneth Dagatan’s 2023 Sundance title “In My Mom’s Pores and skin” and Jow’s “Tomorrow is a Lengthy Time”; and “Daughter of the Mountain God” by Vietnam’s Pham Hoang Minh Thy whose final brief “Stay in Cloud-Cuckoo Land” was a 2020 Venice choice.

The event slate additionally contains “Midnight Blue Spring” by Singapore’s Giselle Lin whose debut brief, “Time Flows in Unusual Methods on Sundays” was a 2021 Locarno choose; “Tiger’s Pond” by India’s Natesh Hedge received at Nantes and Pingyao for his debut characteristic “Pedro”; and “The Poet’s Unrest” by Singaporean visible and documentary artist Liao Jiekai who has introduced previous work at Rotterdam, Tokyo, Sheffield Docs and Cinéma du Réel.

“My crew and I are proud to place a highlight on these bravely distinctive administrators, radical in their very own approach, who intimately handcraft movies in their very own peculiar tone, rhythm and method. They vividly push the probabilities of how up to date picture and sound can result in new narratives in Asian cinema, and we are going to attempt to search out the very best path for his or her launch into the world cinema stage the place they belong,” Jeremy Chua informed Selection.

“Tomorrow is a Lengthy Time,” on which Akanga Movie Asia and Potocol are producers, premiered on the Berlinale on Feb. 18. Pluto Movie is dealing with world gross sales.