Lim's Untold Beauty takes a walk on Wild Side
Hearty congrats to Roy and Juan!
Source: Silvia Wong @ [Screendaily]
France’s Wild Side Films has taken on the French rights to Singapore new writer-director Roy Lim’s Untold Beauty, the debut project of two start-up production houses from Singapore, Rebel Productions and Shooting Gallery Motion Pictures.
The acquisition marks the first pre-sale ever of an independent Singapore film to a major territory.
“We are always in search of emerging talents from Asia and we think Roy Lim can be one of them,” says Wild Side Films CEO Manuel Chiche. “The Untold Beauty script is dealing with a subject we haven't seen often on the screen – an embalmer's life and his place in Chinese culture, with poetry and thrills, and we think it can be a very original movie that will make you tear and fear.”
The picture is a horror love story that revolves around a Chinese embalmer who views death emotionlessly until he has to confront the haunting of his loved one. Through post-mortem and embalming rites, Lim wants to show death in a different light.
“The fear of death and the thought of passing a threshold between life and death are interesting yet fearful. The embalming craft is not only for preservation but ritual and symbolic. Yet embalmers in some cultures are considered taboo and shunned,” he says.
Rebel Productions was set up by Lim as a production company. He also runs a distribution outfit Storm Pictures which previously handled the release of such foreign films as Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible in Singapore.
Untold Beauty has an estimated budget of $1m. Production is expected to start early next year. Producer Juan Foo of Shooting Gallery is currently in Pusan in discussion with international sales agents to represent the film.
Source: Silvia Wong @ [Screendaily]
France’s Wild Side Films has taken on the French rights to Singapore new writer-director Roy Lim’s Untold Beauty, the debut project of two start-up production houses from Singapore, Rebel Productions and Shooting Gallery Motion Pictures.
The acquisition marks the first pre-sale ever of an independent Singapore film to a major territory.
“We are always in search of emerging talents from Asia and we think Roy Lim can be one of them,” says Wild Side Films CEO Manuel Chiche. “The Untold Beauty script is dealing with a subject we haven't seen often on the screen – an embalmer's life and his place in Chinese culture, with poetry and thrills, and we think it can be a very original movie that will make you tear and fear.”
The picture is a horror love story that revolves around a Chinese embalmer who views death emotionlessly until he has to confront the haunting of his loved one. Through post-mortem and embalming rites, Lim wants to show death in a different light.
“The fear of death and the thought of passing a threshold between life and death are interesting yet fearful. The embalming craft is not only for preservation but ritual and symbolic. Yet embalmers in some cultures are considered taboo and shunned,” he says.
Rebel Productions was set up by Lim as a production company. He also runs a distribution outfit Storm Pictures which previously handled the release of such foreign films as Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible in Singapore.
Untold Beauty has an estimated budget of $1m. Production is expected to start early next year. Producer Juan Foo of Shooting Gallery is currently in Pusan in discussion with international sales agents to represent the film.
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