Taiwanese production and sales company Flash Forward Entertainment is bringing 11 projects to Busan, including Arthur Chu’s Kiss My Ass Boss, documentary competition title After Passing and two projects from China.
Action comedy Kiss My Ass Boss is currently shooting and will be introduced to international buyers by Flash Forward at the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM). The $5m feature follows a young man who is disillusioned at work but finds himself being mistaken as the grandson of the company’s biggest shareholder. Award-winning singer-songwriter Crowd Lu plays the lead. An Asia-wide release is being planned for mid-2023.
Chu is the producer of 2020 Taiwanese hit film Our Name Engraved Herein, for which Lu won the best original film song prize at the Golden Horse Awards.
Executive produced by Liao Ching-Sung (The Assassin) and directed by Su Yu-Ting, After Passing Away is a documentary ten years in the making and follows one man’s dream to build a worthy ancestral home for his family. It will world premiere on October 10 in BIFF’s Wide Angle documentary competition section.
Flash Forward will also present market screenings at ACFM for Wang Yu-Ling’s erotic drama In The Morning Of La Petite Mort; mainland Chinese director Li Ran feature debut’s Till Love Do Us Part, co-produced with the Czech Republic and set to premiere in competition at Warsaw International Film Festival; and Demigod: The Legend Begins, a fantasy martial arts puppetry film that has been touring festivals including Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival where it received the audience award for best Asian film.
Flash Forward founder Patrick Huang, who was the Taiwan producer of Cannes 2021 title Moneyboys, is also co-producing a trio of international co-productions: Singapore director Nelicia Low’s Pierce; Malaysian director Amanda Nell Eu’s Tiger Stripes; and Indian director Jatla Siddartha’s In The Belly Of A Tiger. All three are in post-production.
Completing the company’s busy Busan slate are three projects on which Huang serves as producer, including mainland Chinese director Liu Zhonghua’s magical realism fantasy film Moonlight, Ripples, which is in production; and two projects in development: Angel I-Han Teng’s fantasy romance Time Loop With The Moon, which has been selected for the upcoming Taipei Golden Horse Film Project Promotion, and documentary filmmaker Shen Ko-Shang’s first narrative feature Deep Quiet Room.
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