Sabu's Arrested Memories Participates in Paris Project!

As I mentioned at the end of my Kanikosen post on May 31, there would be some good news regarding Sabu's first foreign language production Arrested Memories (collected entries).

Arrested Memories will participate in Paris Project 2009, a co-production initiative established under the Paris Cinema International Film Festival. Now in its 7th edition, it's one of the key project markets in the EU. The fine people at Korea's Finecut are representing Arrested Memories (as well as handling international sales of Kanikosen). Things are looking good for Sabu's English language debut...

Here's the full list of 14 projects. You'll notice the first in line is Kawase Naomi's And Protect, Protected. I wrote a profile on this project for the Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum in March. There, it won a prize to participate in Paris Project.

Edit: And congratulations to Edmund Yeo on his short film Love Suicides making it into the short film competition, up against the likes of Tsai Ming-liang and an artist I admire very much called "Blu" (see my Jan. 15 entry). As I wrote on Twitter, I saw Edmund's Kingyo at Shinjuku's Wald 9 last week and was very impressed.

Update: The project book is available as a PDF here. You can read the synopsis for Arrested Memories (I didn't write it), And Protect, Protected and the other projects.


AND PROTECT, PROTECTED de Naomi Kawase
Japon / Kumie Inc.

ARRESTED MEMORIES de Sabu
Corée du Sud / Finecut co.

BLUE BIRDS de Christophe Van Rompey
Belgique – Chine / Sancta Media - Xstream Pictures

COME TO MY VOICE (Sesime Gel) de Hüseyin Karabey
Turquie / A-si Film

CORNEA de Jochem de Vries
Pays-Bas / NFI Productions

HARD LABOUR (Trabalhar Cansa) de Juliana Rojas et Marco Dutra
Brésil / Dezenove Som e Imagens

LEONES de Jazmin Lopez
Argentine / Rei Cine

MARINA de Stijn Coninx
Belgique / Eyeworks Film & TV Drama

MOSAIQUE (Jialefou) de Xiaoshuai Wang
Chine / Chinese Shadows - Tempo Films Investment

NAHUEL THE HUMAN SUBMARINE de Fernando Díaz
Espagne – Mexique – Argentine / Diagonal TV - Alebrije Producciones - Machaco Films

REMOTE CONTROL de Byamba Sakhya
Mongolie / Guru Media

RHAPSODY IN PERA (Beyolu Rapsodisi) de Umut Aral
Turquie / Atlantik Film

THE YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER de Tan Chui Mui
Malaisie / Da Huang Pictures

TUESDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS (Marti, Dupa Craciun) de Radu Muntean
Roumanie / Multi Media East