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HAF Goes to Cannes 22 June 2020 INTRODUCTION SCREENING INFO HAF Goes to Cannes 22 June 2020 INTRODUCTION SCREENING INFO To open the door to the international 22 June, 2020 (MONDAY) film community, the Hong Kong - Asia 10 – 12 noon / 4 – 6 PM Film Financing Forum (HAF) is proud to (CANNES TIME) (HONG KONG TIME) collaborate with Marché du Film, Festival de Cannes to present the “HAF Goes to Cannes” program, and bring five projects The Borderlands from the Work-in-Progress (WIP) program India for presentation and pitching at the Cannes Born to Be Second Film Festival, including The Borderlands, China Born to Be Second, Dear Immigrants: What Was Your First Meal?, Ningdu and Dear Immigrants: What Was Your First Meal? Hong Kong Olympic Halftime. WIP is a vital extension of the services that HAF currently provides Ningdu and aims to facilitate projects already in Hong Kong | The Netherlands | USA production to secure post-production funds, Olympic Halftime sales agents or film festival support. Czech Republic | Greece | Slovak Republic 2 3 Documentary | Digital Format | Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Manipuri, Nepali, Punjabi | 90mins India The Borderlands An intimate exploration SYNOPSIS of how everyday In 2015, my hometown was attacked by militants. Stressed, sitting far away, I called home. My mother lives intertwine with sounded upbeat. Dinanagar, a nondescript border town near Pakistan, debuted on national news, and the sudden attention from so many kin made her feel like borders in the Indian a celebrity. While the violent narrative ran on TV, I was subcontinent. listening to my mother’s humane story. The powers that have turned borderland narratives into masculine fistfights, seen from the centre. The Borderlands captures everyday life stories in India’s border areas, rethinking borders through stories of longing, triumph and tragedy. Dhauli meets her family for a few hours once a year, divided by the India-Bangladesh border fence. Kavita, rescued from trafficking at a young age, now catches human traffickers red-handed as they try to cross the Nepal-India border. Deepa, a Hindu refugee from Pakistan, aspires to be a doctor. Schooled in Arabic script till now, she struggles to learn Devanagari script for her exams. Each story showcases a unique facet of borderland life, through an intimate inquiry into the life of one character. The spirit of India’s relationship with its neighbours seeps into the stories, and India’s borderlands become a microcosm of the global borderscape. 5 DIRECTOR Samarth MAHAJAN Mahajan, a self-taught non-fiction filmmaker based in Mumbai. Passionate about telling human stories from India that remain invisible to the mainstream, his documentary films have received critical and mass attention. The Unreserved (2017), his national award-winning documentary about passengers in third class of Indian Railways, premiered at Film Southasia 2017 and has been presented at more than 50 fora, while receiving a rare limited theatrical release in India. His works We, The People (2018), about India’s protest street Jantar Mantar Road, and Kazwa (2015), about fireflies and sustainable tourism, have been awarded at multiple international film festivals and fora. PRODUCER Sunil DOSHI Doshi has produced over fifteen feature length films in 20 years. He co-produced Chauthi Koot (aka The Fourth Direction) (2015), selected in Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2015. He has presented and distributed the most coveted world cinema titles in India, including DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT the Oscar-winning The Salesman (2017), Jafar DIRECTOR: PRODUCTION COMPANY Panahi’s 3 Faces (2018), Nuri Ceylan’s Winter Samarth MAHAJAN Sleep (2014), and Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki’s All Things Small The global debate around borders has reached a critical catalogue. He co-founded NDTV Lumiere, a PRODUCER: stage. As masses consume state-sponsored news and world cinema TV channel later acquired by All Things Small is a media company Sunil DOSHI listen to othering narratives from popular leaders, it is Turner Broadcasting. dedicated to telling true stories. We find and Ashay GANGWAR important to bring out perspectives grounded in reality. produce the best, most compelling non-fiction Amplifying such narratives can create a more vibrant from the Indian subcontinent, in a variety of WIP GOALS: formats and on every platform imaginable. discourse, allowing us to acknowledge the humanity We are passionate about telling stories that Funds, Sales agents, latent in us, and to inhibit the pace at which we are will inform, entertain and galvanize their Pre-sales moving into a more fragmented future. Ashay GANGWAR audiences. We dive deep into popular culture, uncover mysteries, spark new ideas, and spur FINANCING people and institutions into action. ATS Studio As a borderland citizen, from the junction of traditionally Gangwar has produced ten documentaries, Above-the-Line Production : US$ 41,020 finds, develops and produces compelling non- considered arch enemies India and Pakistan, my lived including The Unreserved (2017), and won fiction for consumer platforms, publishers, and Below-the-Line Production : US$ 28,280 experience affirms that borderland narratives are lost in awards for Best Film and Cinematography brands. From docu-dramas to multi-season Post Production : US$ 11,900 the noise of centre-led narratives. As a thinking citizen across globe. shows, podcasts to movies: the studio brings Other : US$ 24,620 of the world’s largest and most diverse democracy, I feel India's most compelling stories to life. Total Budget : US$ 105,820 India’s borderlands provide an ideal ground to explore CONTACT Secured Budget : US$ 77,000 what makes us a citizen before being human, and Samarth MAHAJAN human before being a citizen. TEL: The film explores borders through refugee movement, +91 78 7268 4118 cross-border kinship, livelihoods, faith and fluid EMAIL: identities. These themes intertwine with the axes of [email protected]/ gender, class, nationality and sexuality to present a [email protected] mosaic of intersectional stories, providing a humane PRODUCTION COMPANY: DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY lens to look at borderland narratives. In a world where All Things Small 2017 The Unreserved “Us versus Them” precedes the understanding of “Us and Them”, the film accepts the challenge to make us ADDRESS: notice similarities over differences. 202, Floor-2, 3, Navjeevan Society, Dr Dadasaheb Bhadkamkar Marg, Mumbai Central, Mumbai 400 008 6 7 China Born to Be Second Documentary | Digital Format | Mandarin, Sichuan Dialect | 90mins Born to Be Second follows two families haunted by their painful SYNOPSIS past as they build When the 2008 Sichuan earthquake razed a Chinese city to the ground, thousands of families lost their only towards an uncertain child, and were permitted to try and have another in an effort to fill the void created by this tragedy. Born to tomorrow. Be Second follows two of these families. Mei and her husband Sheng had a biological son, Chuan, while their friends, Ying and her husband Ping, opted to adopt a daughter, Sunny. In 2017, Chuan was six years old. He is starting to make sense of the unusual burdens his parents place on him, and of the wound that time has never healed. Sunny, now eleven, had always been told that Ying and Ping were her birth-parents. She can recall having lived somewhere else as a very young child, but she has chosen to accept her parents’ white lie. Soon, however, fragments of the truth will emerge and it will be impossible for the families to confront them together. Both families are arriving at critical junctures in their lives, challenging how they have been living for the past ten years. 9 DIRECTOR FAN Jian Fan Jian is a documentary director who focuses on Chinese social issues through character- driven storytelling. He is a Documentary branch member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). He has directed six feature documentaries, most recently Still Tomorrow (Winner, Special Jury Award at IDFA 2016). His other films include My Land (HAF 2013; Berlinale 2016; supported by the Sundance Fund) and The Next Life (IDFA 2011). His work has screened in competition at Hot Docs, Full Frame, Sheffield, Busan, and many other world festivals. Fan studied at the Beijing Film Academy and is based in Chongqing, China. PRODUCER Richard LIANG Richard Liang has been producing documentaries for fifteen years. He has produced Chinese documentaries with international partners, most recently The Road (IDFA 2015, co-production with DR, SVT, IKON, and NHK) and The Next Life (2011, dir. Fan Jian, DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT co-production with NHK & Al Jazeera). DIRECTOR FAN Jian PRODUCTION COMPANY PRODUCER Born to Be Second is a quintessential Chinese story. Richard LIANG It scrutinizes the parent-child relationship, arguably S. Leo CHIANG FAN Film Studio S. Leo CHIANG the foundation of Chinese society. Many in the older S. Leo Chiang recently completed Our Time FAN Film Studio was established in 2011 by generations do not fully comprehend that one person well-known Chinese director Fan Jian, focusing WIP GOALS — one child — cannot substitute for another. This puts Machine (2019), which premiered at the Tribeca on documentary filmmaking. Its productions Funds, Sales agents, tremendous pressure on the younger generation, but it Film Festival and has earned six international The Next Life (2011) and Still Tomorrow (2016) Pre-sales, Festival Screening will not deter them from finding their own identity. The film festival awards. Other films include Out Run have both been selected into IDFA, the largest (2016), Mr. Cao Goes to Washington (2012) and documentary film festival in the world. Still leads our audiences through a complex examination in Tomorrow won the Special Jury Award at IDFA FINANCING the evolving value of individual life and identity through a the Emmy-nominated A Village Called Versailles 2016, and was nominated for Best Feature Above-the-Line Production : US$ 163,283 Chinese point-of-view.
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