The documentary leads Bangkok-based Princes’ Spring 2025 funding session, and will receive a combined grant of $160,000 on behalf of four of the six titles selected.
It includes three documentary winners who receive a $15,000 production grant each Arts Centerveteran documentary Tampingpin continues his quest for Singapore’s identity. Weaving bamboo neighbor By Gamatriono, Indonesia, who turns to filmmaking through social work. Vietnam’s Director Naan Trang And mountain echofollows three generations of Hmong women in navigating life between villages and cities.
The winner of the fourth documentary, Baby Jackfruit, Baby Guava You will receive a $35,000 post-production grant from Vietnam. This is a personal documentary of Quang Nong Nhat’s family during and after his nephew’s birth, called Baby Guava. The project received a previously pudding production grant in 2023.
“The team is pleased to announce that Purin Pictures has been working hard to achieve this.” “In this session, we received many powerful documentary projects. Vietnam in particular appears to be well set up with solid training programs, production companies focused on DOCs, and experienced mentors. The results of this ecosystem can be seen in many interesting new films from the past few years.”
This funding round is concluded by two fiction projects. Leave, stay Following the award-winning shorts, we mark the feature debut of Cambodian director Danech San. Floating Continuing the journey of Wregas Bhanuteja as an Indonesian filmmaker Copy machine and Andragogy. Each receives a grant of $30,000 and $50,000, respectively. Floating Previously, he won the CJ ENM Award in the Asian Project Market in Busan.
Pudding photo is a Grant recipient in Spring 2025
Production subsidies
Leave, stay (camb-fr-sing-indo)
director Danech San
professional Daniel Mattes, Davy Chou
prodco Anti-Archive
Tired of her island life, Mera travels with her friend Bofa to visit the soldiers she meets online. A few weeks later, Mera goes missing and a search for Bopha begins.
Arts Center (sing)
You/Pro So Pin Pin
prodco BFG Media
Four artists in a shared universe push up creative and social boundaries, revealing the invisible labor, struggle, and the transcendence behind their craft.
Weaving bamboo neighbor (India)
director Gama Triono
product Tony Trimalsant
prodco Documentary House
Ludruk Irama Muda is a building with 35 transwomen art group, bamboo walls, rusty zinc roofs and dirty floors, which preserve Ludruk in Tobong.
And the mountains echoed (viet-sing)
director Nhan Tran
product Lai weijie
prodco E&W Film
The cross-death of three Hmong women, whose dreams are linked to migration to the city, but are drawn back by the weight of their obligations.
Post-production grant
Floating (India)
director wlegas bhanuteja
product Siera Tamihardja
prodco Rekata Studio
Baby Jackfruit, Baby Guava (Beto)
director Quang nong nhat
product Trang Dao Thi Minh
prodco Flaneur Films
A personal documentary about a conservative mother, a mentally ill daughter, and a gay son prepares to arrive at the family.
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