1ST SESSION
MARCH 11 - 15, 2020


Chiang Mai, Thailand
 

SEAFIC OPEN HOUSE
JANUARY 8 - 11, 2021

Online

SEAFIC x PAS

The five projects selected for SEAFIC shall automatically be enrolled in SEAFIC x PAS, Produire au Sud's Southeast Asia workshop. The five producers shall participate in the first session in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where they will be instructed by Produire au Sud mentors. The five producers shall attend the last session to coincide with SEAFIC's final pitching session in Bangkok.
 

2020 MENTORS

Guillaume Mainguet - Head of Produire au Sud

Aditya Assarat (Thailand) – Director of WONDERFUL TOWN (Rotterdam Tiger & Busan New Currents winner) & HI-SO (Berlin Forum), and co-director of Purin Pictures
Giovanna Fulvi (Italy/Canada) – East Asian programmer at TorontoIFF and selection committee member for Rome Film Fest
Mike Goodridge (United Kingdom) – Artistic Director of IFFAMacao, ex-CEO of Protagonist Pictures and ex-Editor at Screen International
Aihara Hiromi (Japan) – festival consultant for Rotterdam, Toronto, IFFAMacao & producer at Bewiz, Inc
Sebastien Chesneau (France/United Arab Emirates) – head of international sales company Cercamon
Roman Paul (Germany) – co-founder of Razor Film Produktion
Lorna Tee (Malaysia) - head of Festival Management at International Film Festival & Awards Macao

ATTENDING JAPANESE PRODUCERS

Featured
Eiko Mizuno Gray Producer Eiko MIZUNO GRAY is CEO and producer at Loaded Films. She produced Maris Martinsons’ MAGIC KIMONO (2017), the omnibus TEN YEARS JAPAN (2018, Busan) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (2019, Locarno, Toronto,

Eiko Mizuno Gray
Producer

Eiko MIZUNO GRAY is CEO and producer at Loaded Films. She produced Maris Martinsons’ MAGIC KIMONO (2017), the omnibus TEN YEARS JAPAN (2018, Busan) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (2019, Locarno, Toronto, Busan). She participated at Ties That Bind 2018, Berlinale Talents 2019, Focus Asia 2019 and Talents Tokyo 2019.

Taro Imai Producer Taro IMAI is founder of Hirakiri Films and alumnus of Rotterdam Lab, Talents Tokyo, Ties That Bind, Busan Asian Film School and Asia Pacific Screen Lab. He produced Yuki Kuwazuru’s YAMAMOTO ERI BECOMES RECOVERABILITY ZERO (2015

Taro Imai
Producer

Taro IMAI is founder of Hirakiri Films and alumnus of Rotterdam Lab, Talents Tokyo, Ties That Bind, Busan Asian Film School and Asia Pacific Screen Lab. He produced Yuki Kuwazuru’s YAMAMOTO ERI BECOMES RECOVERABILITY ZERO (2015) and SKIP City Award winner at SKIP City International D-Cinema Fest ERIKO, PRETENDED (2016, Osaka Asian).

 

ABOUT PRODUIRE AU SUD

Produire au Sud (PAS) is a training workshop focusing on the outline and structure of film co-production within the industry. It aims to familiarize emerging producers and film directors based in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Near and Middle East and Central and Eastern Europe with a variety of important tools and international co-production techniques by coaching individual projects in development.