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Singapore-based Mokster Films and Lester Hsi’s Taiwan-based D-Day Pictures are jointly producing Taiwanese scary movie Revive, a task exploring nan intersection betwixt grief, exertion and nan unknown.
Mokster Films is besides handling world income connected nan project, directed by emerging filmmaker Danny Tseng, and will present it to buyers successful Cannes.
The task marks nan 2nd collaboration betwixt Mokster Films and D-Day pursuing Phantom, an invisible man scary announced astatine past year’s Cannes and now successful post-production, pinch producers Lester Hsi, Fiona Hu and Nelson Mok reuniting connected nan film. Hsi is simply a starring director-producer successful Taiwan, whose debut characteristic The Bridge Curse became a breakout container agency deed successful 2020.
Revive will beryllium nan unrecorded action characteristic debut of award-winning short filmmaker Tseng, who is known for his unique ocular connection and innovative attack to storytelling. His short movie Torii won Second Place astatine The Dor Awards, while his different shorts, including Dear Grandma, Graveyard and Water, received aggregate accolades crossed world competitions including Project Odyssey and Curious Refuge.
Blending scary pinch Eastern belief beliefs, Revive follows a struggling creator who returns location aft her estranged mother’s decease and turns to ‘REVIVE’, an precocious funerary work that restores nan deceased.
As her life is reshaped nether its power – reviving her stalled profession while softly eroding her consciousness of aforesaid – nan bereaved creator is confronted by a bid of unexplained tragedies that unit her to mobility whether nan beingness guiding her life is genuinely her mother astatine all.
The task has already won awards astatine Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) and Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (FPP) and is scheduled to commencement accumulation successful Taiwan astatine nan extremity of nan year.
“With Revive, we wanted to research really exertion reshapes our narration pinch representation and nonaccomplishment – and really dependence connected it tin hold acceptance, distorting reality and allowing thing acold much vulnerable to return hold,” said shaper Fiona Hu.
Tseng added: “I began my travel making short films and caller technologies opened doors for my activity to beryllium seen and recognized astatine world competitions. Now, arsenic I move into theatrical characteristic filmmaking, I’m driven by nan desire to bring my stories to nan large surface and link pinch audiences successful cinemas.”
