Kamila Andini’s 4 Seasons In Java scooped two prizes together with the highest Tokyo Undertaking Award of $13,000 (¥2m) on the inaugural Tokyo Hole-Financing Market (TGFM) awards right this moment (October 31).
The mission additionally gained the Kongchak Award from Cambodia-based Kongchak Studio, which incorporates post-production sound providers price $25,000.
The movie is an Indonesia-Netherlands-Norway-France-Germany-Singapore co-production from Indonesia’s Forka Movies and was beforehand chosen for the Berlinale Co-Manufacturing Market, Venice Hole-Financing Market and Rotterdam’s CineMart.
Andini is an Indonesian filmmaker recognized for Earlier than, Now & Then, which performed in Competitors on the Berlinale in 2022; Yuni, which gained the Platform prize at Toronto in 2021; and earlier acclaimed options The Seen And Unseen and The Mirror By no means Lies. She extra just lately directed Cigarette Lady, Netflix’s first Indonesian interval drama, alongside her accomplice Ifa Isfansyah.
Awarding the primary prize at a ceremony in Tokyo, Italian producer and jury member Paolo Bertolin mentioned the movie “affords a robust assertion on maturity from a filmmaker tackling delicate and related subjects with dedication, sincerity, and vigorous cinematic storytelling”.
Awarding the post-production prize, Kongchak Studios’ Vincent Villa mentioned the mission was chosen “for its subject material and the standard of its visible world. Above all, for its method of addressing the situation of a lady in a rural surroundings in southeast Asia, trapped between modernity and custom.”
Additional prizes noticed Hum by Filippino director Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan win the Gen Z award, with a prize of $3,000 (¥500,000). “We felt the movie was primarily based on roots and reminiscences and the way they convey the ideas of people that reside there,” mentioned the jury, calling it “one thing [we’ve] by no means seen earlier than”.
A particular point out was given to I Have To Fuck Earlier than The World Ends from Andrea Benjamin Manenti, an Italy-Philippines co-production.
The Gen Z award was chosen by a range committee of 5 movie college students from universities and graduate applications for essentially the most compelling mission for younger individuals aged 20 to twenty-eight.
An additional post-production award, additionally price $25,000, was granted to Japan-Thailand co-production Polaris from director Natsuki Seta.
This 12 months, 23 tasks had been chosen for the sixth version of TGFM. To have certified for the TGFM, tasks will need to have 60% of their whole price range secured and an Asia-related ingredient.
