2009 Script Development Fund
LIST The TourCategory | Asian Project |
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Project | The Tour |
Director | Chris CHONG Chan Fui |
Country | Malaysia |
Director's Profile | An alumnus of the first Asian Film Academy (AFA), Chris Chong Chan Fui is a Borneo Malaysian-born filmmaker and media artist focusing on unconventional stories and experimentation between cinema and new media arts. His recent experimental work [Block B] (2008) won the top short film prizes at the Toronto and Mar Del Plata film festivals in 2008, and it also received invitations to the Rotterdam and Berlin film festivals in 2009. His debut feature, [KARAOKE] (2009), was invited to premiere at the 2009 Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. [The Tour] will be his second feature film shot in his hometown of Kota Kinabalu, Borneo Malaysia. It was selected for the 2009 Cinemart and at the 2009 Cannes’ Cinemas du Monde Pavilion. Chris is also currently working on [Compound], an audio-visual installation in collaboration with Japanese sound artist Yasuhiro Morinaga, to be launched in 2010. |