Fran Borgia

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Fran Borgia (born 1980, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain) is a film producer based in Singapore since 2004. He is the founder of Akanga Film Asia.[citation needed]

Career[]

He was the producer and editor for Here (2009), 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 (2010), Boo Junfeng’s first feature film that premiered at the 49th Cannes Critics’ Week in 2010;[1] Disappearing Landscape by Vladimir Todorovic, which premiered at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013,[2] and Mister John by Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor, a UK-Ireland-Singapore co-production, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013.[3]

In 2015, he produced K Rajagopal’s segment for the omnibus feature 7 Letters (2015). In 2016, he co-produced Lav Diaz’s A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016), which won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for "a feature film that opens new perspectives"[4] at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.[5] In the same year, he also produced two films that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival: Boo Junfeng’s Apprentice (2016) at Un Certain Regard[6] and K. Rajagopal’s A Yellow Bird (2016) at International Critics' Week.[7]

In 2017, he produced ’s segment for the omnibus feature 667 that screened at 22nd Busan International Film Festival.[8] In 2018, he produced ’s A Land Imagined (2018), that won the Pardo d’oro (Golden Leopard)[9] at the Locarno Film Festival.[10]

Filmography[]

As Producer[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Semaine de la Critique du Festival de Cannes". Archived from the original on 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  2. ^ "Disappearing Landscape". IFFR.
  3. ^ "Mister John". Edinburgh International Film Festival.
  4. ^ https://www.berlinale.de/en/das_festival/preise_und_juries/preise_internationale_jury/index.html
  5. ^ "- Berlinale - Programme - Programme - Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis - A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery".
  6. ^ "APPRENTICE". Festival de Cannes.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-05-27. Retrieved 2016-10-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/lifestyle/singapore-s-first-dialect-film-anthology-gets-busan-9211158
  9. ^ Anderson, Ariston; Anderson, Ariston (August 11, 2018). "Locarno: 'A Land Imagined' Wins Golden Leopard".
  10. ^ "A Land Imagined". Locarno Film Festival.

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