The Indian Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest film market, has selected a group of projects from around the world for its annual co-production market, which will be held in person this year after two years of going online due to COVID-19.
Although the selected 20 projects are from 11 countries, most of which are already organized as co-production, they are all South Asian in character. Michael Radford, best known for BAFTA’s Oscar-winning “Il Postino,” has a Spain-India project in Spanish “The Princess of Caportala,” which he will co-direct with Manuel Studio (“Caso Urquijo”). Juan Antonio Casado and David Cottarelli of Book Production are producing.
Gautam Arora’s Hindi-English bilingual “The Last Lane” (India) is produced by Kite Rabbit Films, Shaunak Sen’s production company, whose film All That Breathes won Best Documentary in both Sundance and Cannes this year.
Gogularaajan Rajendran’s Tamil and Malay project “Depth of Darkness” is produced by Malaysian Fourth Frame Studios. Underground Talkies Nepal is producing Machindra Yongya in the Nepali language.
“Primordial” directed by Sohail Vidya in Marathi is produced by Bijon Imtiaz and Zee Bangladesh-US, Gopi Baga Production (“Kingdom of Clay Materials”).
Kaushik Ray’s English, Bengali and French film “A Life A Rose” is a co-production from India, France, the United Kingdom and Germany produced by Jean-Baptiste Papin of BackUp Media and Pooja Chauhan of Taran Tantra Telefilms. “Arms of a Man” in Marathi by Rohan Kanwad is a co-production in India and the United Kingdom by Lotus Visual Productions.
Anupam Sharma’s bilingual English and Hindi film “Honor” is a co-production in Australia, India, Canada and the United Kingdom of Casting Temple.
Bhaskar Hazarika, whose film ‘Aamis’ debuted in Tribeca in 2019, is back with a Hindi language project ‘Insectum’, produced by Shyam Bora for Metanormal Motion Pictures.
Michael Graf of Makadam Films, formerly with sales agent Bankside, is producing Shalini Adnani’s Hindi and English ‘Kollam’, a co-production from India and the UK.
Solaris Pictures and TNV Films produced another co-production project from India and the UK, Sridhar Ranjayan’s “Dreams like Ours” in Hindi, Tamil and English, while another project between the two countries, “Punishment” in English, is from Isher Sahota and Jon Tarcy, who have just completed Traces of Lies.
Bombay Berlin-based film productions Arfi Lamba and Katharina Suckle are supporting Sasha Singh’s “Oranges Like Turpentine” in Hindi and English.
An Indo-Japanese project in Hindi, Savita Singh’s “Song of the Circus” is produced by Kyoko Dan, while Shazia Khan’s Hindi, Kashmiri and English “Snow” is produced by acclaimed director Oner for his Anticlock Films.
Vikramaditya Motwane for India’s Andolan Films produced Rohin Ravindran’s “Smart City” in Hindi, which was in the Asian project market in Busan, while Mragendra Singh’s English and Hindi “Still Here” is an Indian-American production.
Famous actor Anjali Patel has a directorial project in Hindi, French and Marathi “Touch Me Not” in the market.
Film Market (20-24 November) is managed by the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC).
“[The] The co-production market was and still is the most important part of the bazaar. The market allows international producers to understand the current trends in cinema from India and South Asia. We are very proud of this year’s selection featuring some of the most diverse, inclusive and groundbreaking stories from Nepal, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, UK, USA and India. We wish them all the best and hope that all of these projects will find the right co-production match for their next journey towards successful completion,” said Ravinder Bhakkar, MD, NFDC.
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