Paradise Metropolis Gross sales is ready to signify internationally “We Are All Strangers,” Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen‘s third and ultimate movie in his acclaimed “Rising Up” trilogy. The movie is at the moment in post-production.
After “Ilo Ilo,” which gained Cannes’ Digital camera d’Or for greatest first movie, and “Moist Season,” “We Are All Strangers” is a portrait of recent day Singapore and is an epic story highlighting class inequalities and revisiting the definition of household.
Right here’s a primary nonetheless of the movie:
The movie reteams Paradise Metropolis Gross sales and Chen. Past dealing with worldwide gross sales on “Ilo Ilo” and “Moist Season,” the Paris-based firm additionally produced Chen’s English-language function “Drift,” starring Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat which premiered at Sundance.
“We Are All Strangers” brings again the performing duo Yeo Yann Yann and Koh Jia Ler, whose performances in “Ilo Ilo” and “Moist Season” earned important laurels. Yeo Yann Yann gained the Golden Horse Award for greatest supporting actress for “Ilo Ilo” and greatest actress for “Moist Season,” whereas Koh Jia Ler was nominated twice on the awards.
“Returning to finish my Singapore ‘Rising Up’ trilogy with Yeo Yann Yann and Koh Jia Ler is a profoundly private journey. These are actors I’ve collaborated with over 13 years,” stated Chen. “By way of these movies, we’ve grown collectively; our 11-year-old younger boy has grown up, and I’ve grown older. And in some ways, his transformation mirrors the guts of those tales: how we turn into strangers to who we had been, and the way we discover our method again once more.”
“We Are All Strangers” is written and directed by Chen, and is produced by means of his Singapore-based manufacturing firm Giraffe Photos.
“It’s such a pleasure to work once more with Anthony as he brings his ‘Rising Up’ trilogy to an in depth. We’ve liked being a part of this decade-long journey and witnessing each his development as a director and the extraordinary evolution of his superb actors,” Paradise Metropolis Gross sales stated in an announcement. “It’s a uncommon cinematographical feat to seize the passage of time in folks and in a spot with such heat and sweetness and we will’t look forward to the world to share laughter and tears as they uncover this splendidly tender final installment,” the corporate continued.
Chen grew to become the primary Singaporean filmmaker to win the Caméra d’Or at Cannes with “Ilo Ilo” which went on to garner greater than 40 worldwide awards worldwide. His second function, “Moist Season,” premiered at Toronto and acquired a number of Golden Horse Awards nominations. His current work contains the Sundance movie “Drift” and “The Breaking Ice” which performed at Un Sure Regard at Cannes.
His new undertaking is backed by the Singapore Movie Fee, the Crimson Sea Fund and the MPA APSA Academy Movie Fund. Government Producers are Joe Tsai, Arthur Wang and KH Kuok. Paradise Metropolis is promoting all territories excluding Mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia. China’s Rediance will deal with distribution in Mainland China.
“We Are All Strangers” joins Paradise Metropolis Gross sales’ busy slate which incorporates “Inform Me The whole lot” which is able to compete at Sundance; Laurent Micheli’s social thriller “Nino in Paradise” which is able to display at Unifrance’s Paris Rendez-Vous and was a part of Tallinn Black Nights Critics’ Choose Competitors. Submit-production titles embody Martin Provost’s romantic comedy “Love Classes,” Judith Godrèche’s “A Woman’s Story” and Warwick Thornton’s “Wolfram.”
