Thailand's 'A Useful Ghost' Wins Top Prize at Locarno’s Open Doors
This year’s Open Doors co-production forum featured nine projects from Southeast Asia and Mongolia looking for international partners, and also represented the close of the forum’s three-year cycle focusing on that part of the world in particular.
Produced by Cattleya Paosrijaroen and Soros Sukhum for Bangkok-based outfit 185 Films Co., “A Useful Ghost” pocketed a production grant of 35,000 Swiss francs . Sein Lyan Tun’s “The Beer Girl In Yangon,” a production from Myanmar which the jury described as having a “modern and innovative proposition in terms of the topics and the point of view,”
Thai project “9 Temples To Heaven,” directed by regular Apichatpong Weerasethakul collaborator Sompot Chidgasornpongse, took home the ARTE Kino International Prize, consisting of a €6,000 grant. The film is produced by Kissada Kamyoung and Kick the Machine Films.
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