Fran Borgia

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Fran Borgia
Born1980 (age 42–43)
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Occupation
  • Film producer
Years active2004–present

Fran Borgia (born 1980) is a Spanish film producer based in Singapore since 2004. He is the founder of film production company Akanga Film Asia.

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Career

He was the producer and editor for Here (2009), Ho Tzu Nyen’s first feature film that was presented at the 41st Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2009; and for the medium-length film, Earth, presented at the 66th Venice Film Festival 2009.

Since then he has produced noteworthy feature films such as Sandcastle (2010), Boo Junfeng’s first feature film that premiered at the 49th Cannes Critics’ Week in 2010; [1] Disappearing Landscape by Vladimir Todorovic, which premiered at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013, [2] and Mister John by Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor, a UK-Ireland-Singapore co-production, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013. [3]

In 2015, he produced K Rajagopal’s segment for the omnibus feature 7 Letters (2015). In 2016, he co-produced Lav Diaz’s A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016), which won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for "a feature film that opens new perspectives" [4] at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. [5] In the same year, he also produced two films that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival: Boo Junfeng’s Apprentice (2016) at Un Certain Regard [6] and K. Rajagopal’s A Yellow Bird (2016) at International Critics' Week. [7]

In 2017, he produced Liao Jiekai’s segment for the omnibus feature 667 that screened at 22nd Busan International Film Festival. [8] In 2018, he produced Yeo Siew Hua’s A Land Imagined (2018), that won the Pardo d’oro (Golden Leopard) [9] at the Locarno Film Festival. [10]

In 2021 he produced Kamila Andini’s Yuni (2021), an Indonesian-Singapore-French co-production which won the Platform Prize at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. [11]

More recently, he produced Jow Zhi Wei’s Tomorrow Is a Long Time (2023), a Singapore-Taiwanese-French-Portuguese co-production that premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival [12] as part of the Generation 14plus 2023; Amanda Nell Eu’s Tiger Stripes (2023), an 8-country co-production, which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Critics’ Week, [13] which won the Grand Prize; and Chia Chee Sum’s Oasis of Now (2023), which will premiere in-competition at the upcoming 28th Busan International Film Festival. [14]

Filmography

As producer

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References

  1. ↑ "Semaine de la Critique du Festival de Cannes". Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Disappearing Landscape". IFFR.
  3. ↑ "Mister John". Edinburgh International Film Festival.
  4. ↑ "| Berlinale | The Festival | Awards & Juries | Prizes International Jury". www.berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 16 December 2006.
  5. ↑ "- Berlinale - Programme - Programme - Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis - A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery".
  6. ↑ "APPRENTICE". Festival de Cannes.
  7. ↑ "Semaine de la Critique du Festival de Cannes". Archived from the original on 27 May 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  8. ↑ "Singapore's first dialect film anthology gets Busan International Film Festival premiere - Channel NewsAsia". www.channelnewsasia.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017.
  9. ↑ Anderson, Ariston (11 August 2018). "Locarno: 'A Land Imagined' Wins Golden Leopard". The Hollywood Reporter .
  10. ↑ "A Land Imagined". Locarno Film Festival.
  11. ↑ "Yuni". Toronto International Film Festival.
  12. ↑ "Míng tian bi zuo tian chang jiu". Berlinale.
  13. ↑ "Tiger Stripes". La Semaine de la Critique of Festival de Cannes.
  14. ↑ "[BIFF Press Release] Announcing Selections for New Currents & Jiseok!". 28th BUSAN International Film Festival 4-13 October, 2023.
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