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'Seriously Red' writer and star Krew Boylan and creator of 'Bump' spin-off 'Year Of', Jessica Tuckwell are among this year's Platform: Lab participants, with the cohort to benefit from the expertise of international producers Samm Haillay (UK) and Mmabatho Kau (South Africa).

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Projects from director Woo Ming Jin and producer Anthony Chen among titles.

Full Circle Lab Philippines, the Southeast Asian project and talent development programme, has unveiled the line-up for its upcoming fourth edition, including new features by Malaysian director Woo Ming Jin and Singapore producer Anthony Chen.

The labs, led by Tatino Films’ Matthieu Darras and Izabela Igel and co-organised by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp), will comprise 12 projects in development, three films in post-production, eight emerging producers and three story editors.

More than 40 participants and 12 mentors from 15 different countries are expected to participate in the in-person workshop,...

Project development initiative has opened up to projects from the wider Southeast Asian region.

Full Circle Lab, a project development programme backed by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp), has announced the 20 projects selected for this year’s edition, which will take place online September 15-29.

The initiative, which is co-headed by Matthieu Darras and Izabela Igel, will be preceded by the Film Industry Conference (September 11-15), which will also be held online and open to a larger audience. Full Circle Lab was initially scheduled to take place in Manila in April, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Once again reflected in this year’s batch, the 2020 January Screenwriters Lab truly emphasizes geographic inclusion and diversity perhaps best exemplified in this future project from South African filmmaker and photographer Fanyana Hlabangane.

After working in television projects, the filmmaker arrived at the lab with The Spirit Guest while his producer Mmabatho Kau would attend Rotterdam’s 2020 Iffr Pro. Reading the film’s synopsis, Hlabangane’s project feels tonally akin to certain elements found in Mati Diop’s Atlantics with a logline the centers around estranged brothers Tito and Kgabane struggle to make a life on the fringes of Johannesburg. During a mercilessly dry winter, their dead mother suddenly arrives in the flesh, bringing childhood pain to the surface and forcing the brothers to confront the trauma that pulled them apart.…...

Second edition of Lab in Manila will also support Filipino series and animation projects.

Full Circle Lab Philippines (Fcl), a project development initiative launched by Matthieu Darras and the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp), will start accepting projects from across Southeast Asia at its next edition.

Fcl is also expanding into Filipino series, due to the growing demand for episodic content from VOD platforms, and animation IP stories in development, designed to encourage original narratives from Filipino animators.

Scheduled to take place April 15-22 in Manila, the Lab expects to support at least 20 projects – six features, four animation...

First Cut Lab director Matthieu Darras is teaming up with the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp) and the Indonesian Agency for Creative Economy (Bekraf).

First Cut Lab director Matthieu Darras is teaming up with the Film Development Council of the Philippines (Fdcp) and the Indonesian Agency for Creative Economy (Bekraf) to launch two new film labs for project development and editing consultancy.

The two labs, which are aimed at local directors, scriptwriters and producers, will each last around one week, starting with an editing consultancy programme and followed by a project development workshop. They will also feature masterclasses open to larger audiences.

Five titles from six filmmakers were chosen from more than 130 entries.

Realness, the African screenwriting residency created by Elias Ribeiro and Cait Pansegrouw of Urucu Media, has selected the projects for its 2018 edition.

Taking part in this year’s programme are Kantarama Gahigiri (Tapis Rouge) and Kivu Ruhorahoza (Grey Matter) from Rwanda, Matthys Boshoff (Flesh Of My Flesh) from South Africa, Ng’endo Mukii (Yellow Fever) from Kenya and Reem Morsi (The Door) and Mohammed Siam (Whose Country?), both from Egypt.

The participants were selected by a panel of 16 industry figures, including sales agents Thembe Bhebhe and Efuru Flowers (Flourishing Films...

Tfl announce 20 new projects for 2018 ScriptLab, with a strong focus on genre movies.

The TorinoFilmLab (Tfl) has announced the 20 new projects selected for the 2018 ScriptLab. 50% of this year’s projects have female directors (ten will be directed by women, nine by men, and one co-directed by a man and a woman).

The ScriptLab is a nine-month scriptwriting programme hosted by the TorinoFilmLab, involving a number of feature films at an early stage of development. Composed of two week-long residential workshops, one in Greece (March) and one in France (June), the ScriptLab also feeds in to TorinoFilmLab annual industry event the Tfl Meeting (this year running on the 23-24 November, as usual in parallel to the Torino Film Festival).

“We noticed a new yearning for genre cinema” comments TorinoFilmLabartistic director Matthieu Darras. “Several of these projects either explore the recent past, the 90s or early 2000s, or an imagined near future in various sci-fi survival stories”

With a strong...