Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures is awarding grants to two fiction and two documentary projects, which will receive a combined $105,000, under its spring 2021 funding round.
Production grants are being awarded to Indonesian filmmaker Riar Rizaldi documentary Monisme and two dramas – Malaysian director Chia Chee Sum’s Oasis Of Now and Singaporean filmmaker Nelicia Low’s Pierce (see full details below).
Vietnamese filmmaker Ha Le Diem’s documentary Children Of The Mist has been awarded a post-production grant. It was previously funded by Purin Pictures during the production phase.
Oasis Of Now is the most recent recent 2020 SEAFIC Award winner, while Monisme director Rizaldi is the 2020 winner of the Singapore Film Festival’s (SGIFF) Southeast Asian Short Film Competition. Pierce is a three-country co-production between Singapore, Taiwan and Poland.
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