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Last Shadow At First Light

Formerly titled YOU ARE THERE. Ami, a 13-year-old empath who can see into the world of the dead, embarks on a journey to Japan in search of her long lost mother to reconnect a family torn apart by time, geography and an unspoken tragedy buried in the past.

Director: Nicole Midori Woodford
Screenwriter: Nicole Midori Woodford
Producers: Jeremy Chua, Shozo Ichiyama, Bostjan Virc, Liza Diño-Seguerra, Yulia Evina Bhara
Countries of Production: Singapore, Japan, Slovenia, Philippines, Indonesia
Language(s): English, Chinese, Japanese
Total budget: USD 550,000
Financing secured: 300,000 USD
Production Company: Potocol

Awards

SEAFIC Open SEA Fund Award 2017
SEAFIC-TFL Award 2017
TorinoFilmLab Co-Production Award 2018
Kongchak Studio Award Busan APM 2022

Official Selection

Southeast Asian Film Lab 2016
Talents Tokyo 2017
TorinoFilmLab Up & Coming Projects 2017
TorinoFilmLab FeatureLab 2018
Purin Pictures Grant Autumn 2018
Talents Tokyo Development Fund 2020
Busan Asian Project Market 2022
udine FAR EAST FILM festival's Focus Asia project market 2023

Principal photography started in Singapore November 2021

World Premiere at San Sebastian Film Festival 2023 (New Directors Competition)

Team: You Are There
NICOLE MIDORI WOODFORD Director Nicole Midori WOODFORD is a Singaporean filmmaker who has made short films such as Permanent Resident (Clermont Ferrand SFF 2018), Tenebrae (Astro A-List 2018), Waiting Room (15 Shorts Commission 2018) and For We A

NICOLE MIDORI WOODFORD
Director

Nicole Midori WOODFORD is a Singaporean filmmaker who has made short films such as Permanent Resident (Clermont Ferrand SFF 2018), Tenebrae (Astro A-List 2018), Waiting Room (15 Shorts Commission 2018) and For We Are Strangers (Busan IFF 2015). She is also an alumnus of Berlinale Talents 2010, Asian Film Academy 2010 and Tokyo Talents 2017.

JEREMY CHUA Producer Jeremy CHUA (Singapore) is a screenwriter and producer who has co-produced  A Family Tour  by Ying Liang (Opening Film of International Competition, Locarno IFF 2018),  Brotherhood  by Pepe Diokno (Karlovy

JEREMY CHUA
Producer

Jeremy CHUA (Singapore) is a screenwriter and producer who has co-produced A Family Tour by Ying Liang (Opening Film of International Competition, Locarno IFF 2018), Brotherhood by Pepe Diokno (Karlovy Vary IFF 2016), A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery by Lav Diaz (Alfred Bauer Silver Bear, Berlinale 2016) and A Yellow Bird by K. Rajagopal (Cannes Critics' Week 2016), which he also co-wrote.