Singapore’s 13 Little Pictures and Emoumie Pictures has secured four international co-production partners for their mythological body horror Strange Fruit, including Indonesia’s Palari Films, Germany’s In Good Company, the Netherlands’ Sluizer Film Production and Archipelago: Binisaya from the Philippines.
Directed by Lam Li Shuen and Mark Chua, the film has been selected for the inaugural genre section of Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF). Set in 11th-century Singapore, the story revolves around a demigod born from a yam who is ritually fed upon by villagers. When a mysterious beast washes ashore, the villagers abandon him, and he is left with only a manipulative outcast by his side.
Co-producers on the film will include Palari Films’ Muhammad Zaidy and Meiske Taurisia, In Good Company’s Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, Sluizer Film Productions’ Anouk Sluizer and Archipelago: Binisaya’s Keith Deligero and Gale Osorio.
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