• Anti-Archive is a Cambodian film production company created in 2014 by filmmakers Davy Chou, Steve Chen, and Kavich Neang. Anti-Archive produces and co-produces fiction and documentary films by the emerging, new generation of Cambodian filmmakers, as well as films by international, independent directors shooting in Cambodia and Southeast Asia. Deliberately provocative, the name Anti-Archive invites one to rethink the relationship of films and filmmakers with the past and history. The founders recognized the need for film production infrastructure in this part of Southeast Asia to support young independent filmmakers, some of whom have since shown their first works internationally. The films produced and co-produced by Anti-Archive have premiered and received awards at festivals around the world, including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Busan, and Rotterdam. Davy Chou and Daniel Mattes are the delegate producers of Danech San’s debut feature film, TO LEAVE, TO STAY, for Anti-Archive.

  • DCM Autodidact Films was founded in 2014 by Darlene Malimas operating as a media consultant and production company based in Metro Manila, Philippines. Over the years, DCM Autodidact functioned as an affiliate of Autodidact Films of US-based filmmaker and producing partner, Isabel Sandoval. It has also serviced two of the largest TV networks in the Philippines, ABS-CBN and GMA TV as production supplier, film curator and license broker. Through the years, the company has also helped local content creators with the executive production of various digital content and channels. DCM Autodidact was attached as a producer of ""Basurero"", the multi-awarded short from the Philippines which competed and world premiered at the Busan International Film Festival. In 2021, DCM Autodidact through Darlene Malimas acting as EP was involved in bringing to life a cultural-culinary travel series called ""Hereatage"" airing in the Thailand-based streaming platform, TrueID. Assisting the casting for the Amazon Original,   ""Expats"" by Lulu Wang, Darlene through DCM Autodidact conducted Philippine auditions and aided in facilitating in a few of the shoots in Manila. For her recent project, the first Filipino-British film - ""Raging Grace"", DCM Autodidact acted as the company which facilitated, among others, the auditions, music licensing, costume-related assets from the Philippines.  

  • In 2012, after distribution for 20 years, Dominique Welinski founded DW, a production and consulting company. Since then, she curates and produces the Factory program at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes. She’s a consultant and pitch trainer for various workshops and labs. She did co-produce among others: Sanjeewa Pushpakumara (Sri Lanka), Alireza Khatami (Iran), Midi Z (Myanmar), Yona Rozenkier (Israel).  DW is developing films in Israel, India, Brazil and Philippines.

  • Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan (b.1996, Philippines) is an independent filmmaker born of Ifugao and Visayan descent. Eblahan’s works explore themes of trauma, spirituality, and nature told through the cosmic lens of post-colonial spaces and Indigenous identities. His works have been shown in various film festivals around the world such as: Sundance Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art, and Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival where he won the International Student Jury Prize as well as a Special Mention of the International Jury for his 2020 short film Hilum.

    In 2022, his film The Headhunter’s Daughter was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival. In 2024, the film Cold Cut, co-directed with Siyou Tan, premiered in the Festival de Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight under the ‘Directors’ Factory’ programme.

    In 2023, he was selected for the Cannes Cinefondation Residence program, Berlinale’s Script Station, Locarno’s Filmmakers Academy and Sundance Institute’s Native Lab. He is currently developing his first feature film, Hum.

  • KINOFACTION, Japan

    Loaded Films founder Eiko Mizuno-Gray (PLAN 75) and Kinoshita-Kansei Group CEO Masahide Kinoshita have launched a new Tokyo-based production company, Kinofaction. This company aims to focus on minority Japanese co productions by taking a minority stake in feature film projects that include significant Japanese elements and/or talent. Kinofaction is actively seeking projects initiated outside Japan that have strong festival and commercial potential. The projects on their slate include "The Excursion," set in Poland and directed by Kei Ishikawa, known for his Venice titles "Traces Of Sin" (2016) and "A Man" (2020). This new project is a co-production with Poland’s Lava Films, which is at the 77th Cannes with the competition title "The Girl With The Needle." Another project is "KAIKI (The Returning)," a Japan-Philippines co-production by writer-director Atsuko Hirayanagi, represented by UTA. Hirayanagi's credits include the Cannes 2017 title "Oh Lucy!" and the 2022 Amazon Prime Video series "Modern Love Tokyo," where she served as showrunner and director.

    In development is an Osamu Dazai-influenced short film from Vietnamese writer-director Phạm Hoàng Minh Thy, whose 2020 short "Live In Cloud-Cuckoo Land" was featured in Venice.
    https://loadedfilms.jp/

    FUSEE, Philippines

    FUSEE, a media content creation and investment group, is dedicated to championing Asian representation in film. Our debut co-production, PLAN 75, a Japan-France-Philippines collaboration, garnered acclaim at the 75th Cannes Film Festival and was sold worldwide by France-based Urban Sales. Another notable project, BLUE ROOM, was a hit at Cinemalaya18 and is now available on Netflix, represented by L.A.-based agency Cinema Independent. TOPAKK (Triggered) premiered at Locarno and secured worldwide distribution through Toronto-based Raven Banner Entertainment.

    Upcoming releases include DON’T CRY, BUTTERFLY, a Vietnam-Singapore-Philippines co-production represented by Korea’s Barunson E&A. Currently in production is THE SPLENDOUR OF LIFE, a film to be shot in Canada and the Philippines.

    Join us in shaping global narratives and promoting diverse voices in cinema.
    http://www.fusee.biz

  • Eileen Cabiling, a Filipina filmmaker, delves into the colonized psyche of the Filipino diaspora. Her debut short, ""Basurero,"" won the Philippine Movie Press Award for Best Short in 2021, premiered at the 2019 Busan International Film Festival, earned a Golden Gate Award nomination, and competed globally.

    Her feature debut, “Lihim na Luha,” a 2024 Red Sea Lodge semi-finalist, targets late 2025 production, produced by Darlene Malimas, France’s Woooz Pictures, and co-produced by Jericho Rosales. Her TV series ""Pamilya,"" in development, featured at the 2022 International Gotham Market and was a 2024 Almanack Episodic Lab semi-finalist.

    Cabiling is co-writing with Director Martin Arnaldo on ""Summer Solstice,"" based on Nick Joaquin’s classic short story, and ""Amok,"" inspired by painter Juan Luna's life, with Rise Pictures led by Nick and Erika North (Former Head of Amazon Originals). Additionally, she is the co-writer of “LOVE VISA"" with director PJ Raval and New York producer Derek Nguyen, a 2023 Sundance Catalyst semi-finalist.

    An American Film Institute Fellow and William J. Fadiman Screenwriting Award recipient for Best Screenplay in her graduating class, Cabiling’s film industry career spans film, TV, animation, and documentaries with independent productions and major studios like ABC-Walt Disney, Discovery, and Disney Plus Asia.

  • Twenty Manila is a boutique agency and production company born out of a house marked as No.20 in one of the stereotypical streets of Manila - a mix of social classes and dog breeds in one stretch.

    Having reached 20 in human years, TWENTY MANILA celebrates working with the top corporations in the Philippines for their video, advertising, and event needs - taking on multiple creative pursuits that have launched and celebrated products in real estate, music, digital finance, banking, transportation, mining, telcos, and TV stations.

    When the world felt like it was ending in 2020, it tipped its work schedules towards filmmaking - co-producing with animation savant Avid Liongoren an animation feature entitled You Animal!: The Nimfa Dimaano Story. It was released across Asia through Netflix in 2020. The year after, it became the first Philippine animation to be officially selected in Annecy.

    Currently, it is in the production stage of its second animation film, Ella Arcangel: Ballad of Tooth and Claw. Within 2 years of its development, it has taken part in Focus Asia, Italy and the ATF in Singapore under the Ties that Bind Animation Lab. It has received 2 co-production film grants from the Philippines.

    For its third film, Twenty Manila is excited to co-produce with Myanmar-born director Maung Sun on Future Laobans, a story of friendship and the pursuit of wealth via one piece of jade.

  • Eve Baswel (1995) was born and raised in the southern island of Philippines in Maguindanao. Her love for the spontaneity of visual arts can be seen through her works in photography and cinematography. Eve’s films and photos reflect the inherent absurdity, loneliness, and vulnerability of human existence.        
                                   
    Her debut feature film ""Tia Madre'' garnered eight nominations at the 2019 Cinema Originals, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won Best Cinematography. Netflix Philippines acquired the rights to ""Tia Madre."" Additionally, her short film ""Walay Balay"" had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Directors' Fortnight. Both films were produced by Epicmedia.           

    Eve was selected to be part of the  Directors Factory program, where she wrote and co-directed a short film among other selected 8 filmmakers from around the world.

    Heaven Help Us was also selected to participate during the Full Circle Lab Philippines 2023 and was recently pitched during the pitching program of Directors Factory in Cannes.   

  • Fran Borgia leads Akanga Film Asia, an independent production company based in Singapore, which specialises in auteur driven films from South East Asia and South Asia.

    His titles include Tiger Stripes (Amanda Nell Eu, 2023) - Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Jury Prize, Oasis of Now (Chia Chee Sum, 2023) - Berlinale Forum, Tomorrow is a Long Time (Zhi Wei Jow, 2023) - Berlinale Generation,  Yuni (Kamila Andini, 2021) - Toronto International Film Festival Platform Prize, A Land Imagined (Yeo Siew Hua, 2018) - Locarno Golden Leopard Prize,  A Yellow Bird (K Rajagopal, 2016) - Cannes Critics’ Week, A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery (Lav Diaz, 2016) - Berlinale Silver Bear Prize, Sandcastle (Boo Junfeng, 2010) - Cannes Critics’ Week and Here (Ho Tzu Nyen, 2009) - Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.