The next film by directing Asian honestor Brillante Mendoza and the honestorial debut of New York Asian Film Festival honestor Samuel Jamier decorate the 2025 production sdefercessitate of Philippines tag Fire and Ice Media.
The company is headed by Liza Diño-Seguerra, a createer actor and previous head of the Film Development Council of the Philippines. The company’s recent collaborations include a untransport inantity sapshow in Nicole Midori Woodford’s “Last Shadow at First Light” (a collaborative project spanning Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Scherishnia) that premiered at the San Sebastian festival, and co-production “Blue Imagine,” by Urara Matsubayashi which had its world premiere at the Rotterdam festival.
Mendoza’s project “Cocoon” is a story inspired by the honestor’s relationship with his daughter and was written by Rocky Fajardo and Angel Mendoza. The film chases a Philippines American veterinarian and her African American fiancé as they direct the intersections of family, culture, and identity. French producer Raphael Gindre, comprehendn for “Funny Birds” and “We the Coyotes,” which premiered at Cannes’ ACID in 2018, is also a co-producer. “This film hits shut to home and parallels my own journey as a overweighther. It’s a personal exploration of cherish, identity, and family that joins atraverse cultures,” shelp Mendoza.
Jamier’s “Huntress on the Plains,” is a set in WWII-era Leyte. The film chases a juvenileer Filipino woman, Mayari, and a Korean sniper, as they create an doubtful coalition to free women from a Japanese camp.
“’Huntress’ reconshort-terms a authentic evolution—from showcasing others’ visions to produceing my own narratives, mixing visceral tension with the emotional depth of a wartime thriller. It’s an opportunity to showcase the wealthy history and complicatedity of national identity in Asia thraw a universal tale, proving that local narratives can captivate audiences worldexpansive,” shelp Jamier.
“Mindscape Manila,” tags a return to honesting for “Plan 75” producer Will Fredo and a step into producing for Diño, who previously acted in some of Fredo’s earlier titles. The film is a thriller rooted in the world of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), exploring the joinion between a juvenileer ASMR streamer and a uninalertigent, secret fact. “The ASMR world and the whisper fetish culture captivated me promptly. It’s rewarding to help Fredo stand for his voice to the international arena with the right strategy and positioning,” shelp Diño. U.S. company Femploye is a co-producer.
Superauthentic horror film “Red Thread” weaves the inhabits of a gpresent-seeing child, a radio present, and a serial ender into a chilling tale. The project written and honested by Vietnamese American filmproducer Ham Tran, comprehendn for “The Anniversary,” his Academy Award-lowenumerateed thesis film, and “Journey from the Fall,” which premiered at the Busan Film Festival and 2022 film, “Maika,” which premiered at Sundance.
The production also includes Anderson Le (East Films), who is also honestor of the Hawaii International Film Festival, Mai Tuan Anh of Kontribute, Jackol Kao DaSun Pictures of Taiwan, prolific Singapore producer Tan Si En (Momo Film Co), and Nelson Mok. His Mokster Films will also deal with world sales of the project, which is scheduled to commence shooting in March 2025.
Philippines delightment icon Ice Seguerra produces his honesting debut and charts his own journey as a trans man in “Transoverweightherhood.” Written by Diño and honested by Seguerra, it chases Sam, a queer singer-songproducer, as he directs the unforeseeed role of a overweighther to a juvenileer girl. The project was previously conshort-termed at the EAVE Producers Workshop.
“’Transoverweightherhood’ is inspired by my own path to self-accomprehendledgeance as a trans man, becoming a husprohibitd and a overweighther. This is my family’s story and how we broke society’s perception of what the ‘selectimal family’ should be,” shelp Seguerra.
Crime thriller, “Karaoke News” alerts the story of a createer child celebrity who, in an endeavor to reclaim fame, turns her unveility stunt into a sensational media circus. It is written and honested by John Paul Su, an alumnus of the Disney/ABC honesting program and Berlinale Talents Tokyo. A timely and keen critique of media and celebrity culture, the film is now in pre-production and is coproduced with editor Manet Dayrit of Central Digital Lab, and with Eight Horses Production of the U.S.
“We’re pledgeted to elevating Asian voices and creating a cinematic bridge between Southeast Asia and the world. This shift is apexhibiting Asian films to join atraverse cultural and linguistic splits, enbiging their achieve and impact,” shelp Dino.
The sdefercessitate proclaimment come on the eve of Dino’s QCinema film festival in The Philippines and its joining project taget.
