Movies Apprentice, A Yellow Bird, Sandcastle, Mister John, 7 Letters Similar Raymond Phathanavirangoon, Tzu‑Nyen Ho, Boo Junfeng, K Rajagopal, Eric Khoo | ||
Fran Borgia (born 1980, in Spain) is a filmmaker based in Singapore since 2004. He is the founder of Akanga Film Asia.
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Career
He was the Producer and Editor for Here, Ho Tzu Nyen’s first feature film that was presented at the 41st Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2009; and for the medium-length film, Earth, presented at the 66th Venice Film Festival 2009. Since then he has produced noteworthy feature films such as Sandcastle, Boo Junfeng’s first feature film that premiered at the 49th Cannes Critics’ Week in 2010; Disappearing Landscape by Vladimir Todorovic, which premiered at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013, and Mister John by Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor, an UK-Ireland-Singapore co-production, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013. In 2015, he produced K Rajagopal’s segment for the omnibus feature 7 Letters (20th Busan International Film Festival 2015). Recently, he has Co-Produced Lav Diaz’s A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, which premiered In-Competition at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, and it won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for a feature film that opens new perspectives"; and Produced two films that premiered in Cannes Film Festival in May 2016: Boo Junfeng’s Apprentice (Un Certain Regard) and K. Rajagopal’s A Yellow Bird (International Critics' Week).