Southeast Asia brings wide range of films to Cannes

The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2010
Next up, from Singapore, debut director Boo Junfeng brings his coming of age feature "Sandcastle" as an Official Selection to Critics' Week. In the film, Joshua Tan plays a young man unraveling his late father's role as an activist during the city state's politically heated formative years of the 1960s.
Represented by Fortissimo Films, "Sandcastle" will premiere on May 13. Fortissimo's Hong Kong-based director, Michael Werner, says Golden Village will release the film in Singapore and that there is already "lots of interest and curiosity" about the film for which he expects "to close sales in the Chinese-speaking territories as well as in some key European markets" at Cannes. Full Story