Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s latest venture Pipra Bidya has been included in the 30-film list for the 2013 Asian Project Market, the art house film financing event of this year’s Busan International Film Festival edition that will take place in Korea from October 7-10.
Farooki’s family satire Television closed last year’s Busan Festival.
The Busan International Film Festival’s signature arthouse film financing event is headlined by new projects from Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Naomi Kawase, Kim Jee-woon, and other internationally reputed indie film-makers, reports the Hollywood reporters.
Makhamalbaf will present his first English feature, The President at APM in addition to showing his film Ongoing Smile about Busan Festival founder Kim Dong-ho at the festival, which runs from October 3-12 in the South Korean port city.
Others include anticipated Korea-Japan collaboration Thousand Weeds by Ounie Lecomte (A Brand New Life) and Qatar-US-Netherlands production Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf by Susan Youssef.
This year’s selection also includes a rare English remake of the Korean film End of Animal, which is to be directed by Eron Sheean. Others include Indonesia’s emerging indie director Edwin and Korean-Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu, as well as Korea’s Sundance winner O Muel and Yeon Sangho.
Pipra Bidya, produced by Impress Telefilm, is in the post production stage, which is expected to get release at the end of this year.
The cast of the film includes Sheena Chohan, Noor Imran, Mukit Zakaria, Sabbir Likhon and Mohini Mou. The film is being produced by Chobial and co-produced by Impress Movies.
-With New Age input
