Fantasia's Frontières Market, known for championing Asian cinema, is entering a new partnership with the Tokyo International Film Festival Content Market (TIFFCOM) to launch a gap-funding program for genre projects. The program will feature international projects in advanced financing, aiming for a maximum of 40% gap financing and provide teams with one-on-one meetings with industry professionals, daily panels, and conferences.
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“We are beyond proud of this new partnership and the opportunity to further shine a spotlight on international genre co-productions. ” Morissette attended TGFM last year and was impressed by the quality of the projects. Reps from the two events began talking and finalized the partnership this past week at Cannes.
TGFM alumni films screening this year at Cannes include Jorge Thielen Armand’s “Death Has No Master” , Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s “9 Temples to Heaven” , and Konstantina Kotzamani’s “ “In recent years, Frontières has seen an increase of submissions from Asia,” Morissette said.
“Projects like the ‘Funky Forest 2’ and ‘Red Spider Lilies’ were selected for the Montreal market last year, and Norihiro Niwatsukino’s ‘Magai-Gami’ and ‘Queen of Malacca’ were presented at this year’s sold-out Frontières at Cannes. The new Tokyo market program will feature international projects in advanced financing that are seeking a maximum of 40% gap financing.
Teams will present their projects in a curated showcase at the TGFM, which supports feature film projects by facilitating one-to-one meetings with industry professionals as well as daily panels and conferences throughout the three-day TIFFCOM, held Oct. 28 to 30. edition Oct. 26 to Nov. 4. Submissions for eligible projects opened today and close on July 21, 2026.
Applicants can submit their project through the Frontières Market website, or through the TGFM platform. Recent Frontières hits take in “Lamb,” from Valdimar Jóhannson, a 2021 Un Certain Regard prize winner for originality, “In Flames,” directed by Zarrar Khan and selected for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2023 and “A Prayer for the Dying,” Dara Van Dusen’s 2026 Berlinale Perspectives player which drew Another past Frontières title, the upcoming “Hot Spot,” from Agnieszka Smoczynska, is set to premiere at Fantasia’s 30th edition this summer.
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