Thai New Wave director Wisit Sasanatieng to direct Armful, a South East Asian film produced by One Ton Cinema
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Singapore, 5th March 2006 – Singapore-based One Ton Cinema announced today that Thai New Wave director Wisit Sasanatieng will be directing their debut feature film project Armful, a stylised tragicomedy set in 1970s South East Asia. Armful marks Wisit Sasanatieng’s first Chinese language project.
Wisit’s directorial debut in 2000 was the genre-blending Tears of the Black Tiger (Fa Talai Jone), the first Thai film to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard. A colourful homage to classic Thai cinema and spaghetti Westerns, the film also won the Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema at the 2000 Vancouver International Film Festival. His second film was Citizen Dog (Mah Nakorn) (2004), a contemporary romantic comedy set in Bangkok. The film’s surreal palette and fantastical characters have drawn comparisons to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie. The two films were picked up for distribution by Miramax and Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp respectively.
Wisit entered the film industry as a screenwriter for two of Nonzee Nimibutr’s films, 1950’s gangster flick Dang Bireley and the Young Gangsters (2499 Antapan Krong Muang) (1997) and the ghost thriller Nang Nak (1999). Both films were critical and box office successes and marked the beginning of a “new wave” movement in the Thai film industry.
“We are very excited to have one of the most talented directors and colourful visionaries in the region working on our first feature film.” said producer and One Ton Cinema’s creative director Kevin WY Lee. “Armful is an ambitious project so we’re absolutely thrilled that Wisit, the sifu of surrealism, will be the one to realise it. We are currently working on the second draft of the script with Wisit and look forward to telling a great story with him. We’re also casting our net near and far now to get the best team on board, including cast, crew and production partners.”
“Coming from similar creative backgrounds, we all clicked immediately on sensibilities.” said co-producer Ronnie Lee, also of One Ton Cinema. “And Thailand and Singapore have much in common beyond just geography so it was a perfect fit.”
Armful tells the revenge tale of a failed paper merchant who loses one arm, a fact Wisit muses since the protagonist in his previous film Citizen Dog lost a finger.
Armful is scheduled for release in 2007.
For production updates, please visit the official website at www.Armfulmovie.com
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For further information, please contact:
Kevin WY Lee
Producer
armful@onetoncinema.com
ONE TON CINEMA
15B TEMPLE STREET #03-01
SINGAPORE 058562
TEL: (65) 6323 4660
FAX: (65) 6323 2664
WEB: www.onetoncinema.com
EMAIL: one@onetoncinema.com
ABOUT ONE TON CINEMA
One Ton Cinema is a new Asian content creation company and spin-off from Spoon, an award-winning boutique creative agency based in Singapore. One Ton Cinema is dedicated to producing fresh, unique and engaging content in Asia for international audiences. This includes originating and sourcing ideas and scripts with potent appeal and successfully developing them to fruition, in the form of film, television, print/electronic publications or interactive/new media projects.
One Ton Cinema is currently developing a slate of feature film projects. Its debut project Armful is scheduled for release in 2007.
For Immediate Release
Singapore, 5th March 2006 – Singapore-based One Ton Cinema announced today that Thai New Wave director Wisit Sasanatieng will be directing their debut feature film project Armful, a stylised tragicomedy set in 1970s South East Asia. Armful marks Wisit Sasanatieng’s first Chinese language project.
Wisit’s directorial debut in 2000 was the genre-blending Tears of the Black Tiger (Fa Talai Jone), the first Thai film to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard. A colourful homage to classic Thai cinema and spaghetti Westerns, the film also won the Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema at the 2000 Vancouver International Film Festival. His second film was Citizen Dog (Mah Nakorn) (2004), a contemporary romantic comedy set in Bangkok. The film’s surreal palette and fantastical characters have drawn comparisons to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie. The two films were picked up for distribution by Miramax and Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp respectively.
Wisit entered the film industry as a screenwriter for two of Nonzee Nimibutr’s films, 1950’s gangster flick Dang Bireley and the Young Gangsters (2499 Antapan Krong Muang) (1997) and the ghost thriller Nang Nak (1999). Both films were critical and box office successes and marked the beginning of a “new wave” movement in the Thai film industry.
“We are very excited to have one of the most talented directors and colourful visionaries in the region working on our first feature film.” said producer and One Ton Cinema’s creative director Kevin WY Lee. “Armful is an ambitious project so we’re absolutely thrilled that Wisit, the sifu of surrealism, will be the one to realise it. We are currently working on the second draft of the script with Wisit and look forward to telling a great story with him. We’re also casting our net near and far now to get the best team on board, including cast, crew and production partners.”
“Coming from similar creative backgrounds, we all clicked immediately on sensibilities.” said co-producer Ronnie Lee, also of One Ton Cinema. “And Thailand and Singapore have much in common beyond just geography so it was a perfect fit.”
Armful tells the revenge tale of a failed paper merchant who loses one arm, a fact Wisit muses since the protagonist in his previous film Citizen Dog lost a finger.
Armful is scheduled for release in 2007.
For production updates, please visit the official website at www.Armfulmovie.com
DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE IN PDF FORMAT
For further information, please contact:
Kevin WY Lee
Producer
armful@onetoncinema.com
ONE TON CINEMA
15B TEMPLE STREET #03-01
SINGAPORE 058562
TEL: (65) 6323 4660
FAX: (65) 6323 2664
WEB: www.onetoncinema.com
EMAIL: one@onetoncinema.com
ABOUT ONE TON CINEMA
One Ton Cinema is a new Asian content creation company and spin-off from Spoon, an award-winning boutique creative agency based in Singapore. One Ton Cinema is dedicated to producing fresh, unique and engaging content in Asia for international audiences. This includes originating and sourcing ideas and scripts with potent appeal and successfully developing them to fruition, in the form of film, television, print/electronic publications or interactive/new media projects.
One Ton Cinema is currently developing a slate of feature film projects. Its debut project Armful is scheduled for release in 2007.
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