PURIN PICTURES ANNOUNCES
GRANT RECIPIENTS FOR FALL 2023

NOVEMBER 1, 2023 - Bangkok

Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures has finalized the grantees for the Fall 2023 session.  After evaluation and discussion of the submissions, the reading committee chose three fiction and one documentary projects for production support and one documentary project for post-production support.

A total of 140,000 USD will be given out this session to the following projects:

Production Grants (30,000 USD in cash for fiction, 15,000 USD in cash for documentary)

THE REMOTES (Philippines)
Director: John Torres, Producer: John Torres, Production Company: Los Otros
Two sisters with superpowers race against time to track a voice that controls human avatars, haunted by the revelation it could be their dead mother.

FILIPINANA (Philippines, Singapore, UK)
Director: Rafael Manuel, Producer: Jeremy Chua, Production Company: Potocol
New tee girl Isabel feels strangely drawn to Doctor Palanca, the president of the exclusive golf and country club where she works.

JAGUAR (Philippines, USA)
Director: Dean Colin Marcial, Producer: Bernadette Ann Manlongat, Moira Lang, Production Company: Reality MM Studios
Bowie, a lone security guard working the night shift, becomes the sole witness to a murder in his old condominium in the middle of Manila.

BARILES (Philippines)
Director: Sheryl Rose Andes, Producer: Bryan Kristoffer Brazil, Production Company: Manila Montage Inc.
When seawater becomes warm, tuna fisherman from a small village in the Philippines have to face life they never could have imagined.

POST-Production Grants (50,000 USD for fiction films, 35,000 USD for documentary films)

PLANET OF LOVE (Indonesia)
Director: Ika Wulandari, Producer: John Badalu, Production Company: One Take Media
A nanny who works in an orphanage for children with HIV takes care of her stubborn grandson, one of the foster children at the orphanage.

This Fall 2023 session, the reading committee chose four Filipino and one Indonesian project to receive grants.  

Says Purin Pictures co-director Anocha Suwichakornpong, “This session half of all the submissions we received were from the Philippines.  Because of various local support schemes and a just-do-it mentality, Filipino filmmakers continue to create interesting and varied works.” The Remotes is John Torres’ first fiction film after two decades of making ground-breaking documentaries.  Filipinana by Rafael Manuel is expanded from a fantastic short film and was recently awarded at the Asian Project Market (APM) in Busan.  Jaguar by Dean Colin Marcial is a taut urban thriller that straddles the gap between independent and mainstream genre cinema.  Rounding out the selection are two documentaries, Bariles by Sheryl Rose Andes and Planet of Love by Ika Wulandari, that shine a light on marginalized livelihoods in the Philippines and Indonesia respectively.    

The call for entries for the Spring 2024 session opens on February 1, 2024.