The 5th Tokyo Gap-Financing Market
welcomes 15 projects + 5 Italian Focus Projects
for Financing and Project Development
Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2024
at TIFFCOM (Tokyo International Film Festival's Affiliated Content Market)
~Many previously participating films have been highly acclaimed at festivals and cinemas around the world~
TIFFCOM (an affiliated content market of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF)) will hold the 5th Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (TGFM) at TIFFCOM 2024, which will open at Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho-Kan from October 30 to November 1, 2024. TGFM serves as a platform for selected feature-length film projects in the financing stage; TIFFCOM provides one-on-one meeting opportunities with industry professionals in order to support project development and financing. TGFM features film projects which have secured at least 60% of the entire budget and contain Asian elements.
This year's TGFM will spotlight projects from Italy in celebration of the call for entries for co-productions under the Italy-Japan Film Co-Production Agreement, which opened in August, 2024. Including these 5 projects specially-selected thanks to the Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Italian Ministry of Culture and Cinecittà, 20 projects (14 live-action and 6 animation) in total will participate.
~Projects by established producers and emerging directors
from 24 countries/regions~
Many projects by globally-proven producers teaming up with young directors were selected
The projects include: Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s second feature 9 Temples to Heaven produced by Cannes Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Arvin Belarmino’s Ria co-produced by Alemberg Ang, known as the co-producer for Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75; new Monglian director Juefang Zhang’s Where the Mountain Women Sing, teaming with international-film-festival-favorite producer Patrick Mao from Tiger Stripes, Moneyboys, In the Belly of Tiger and others; Jemima James’s Cold Enough For Snow based on the Australian best-selling novel, produced by Eve Gabereau, CEO of Modern Films, UK; and a variety of other projects.
From Japan, the selection includes: Japan-Taiwan-US co-production directed by Tetsuya Mariko of From Miyamoto to You and Destruction Babies; a project by director Masanori Tominaga from Between the White Key and the Black Key and Dynamite Graffiti; Naoko Watanabe’s first directorial project The Moon Is Watching, adapted from her father Junichi Watanabe’s famed novel. Also selected, as one of the projects from Italy, is the international co-production Children of the River directed by Lisa Takeba from The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time.
Other projects include: a project by Canada-based Vietnamese documentary director Quan Luong; a Thailand-Luxembourg-Singapore-Taiwan-US co-production by accomplished director Pen-ek Ratanaruang from Last Life in the Universe and other hit films; a project by director Vajiko Chachkhiani, the first TGFM participant from Georgia; and Jun Li’s Noir project by Hong Kong’s major production company mm2 Studios.
20 Selected Projects for the 5th Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (TGFM)
Project title (Country/Region), Director, Production Company
Feature Film – Fiction 11 projects
- 9 TEMPLES TO HEAVEN (Thailand, Singapore, France) by Sompot Chidgasornpongse, Kick the Machine Films
- BEFORE ANYONE ELSE (Japan, Taiwan, USA) by Tetsuya Mariko, ROJI Film
- COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW (UK, Japan, Australia) by Jemima James, Modern Films
- CONTAINER (Vietnam, Canada) by Quan Luong, Farpoint Films Inc. (Container Film Inc.)
- THE DOG IS BARKING (Georgia, Japan, Germany) by Vajiko Chachkhiani, Nushi Film, Fuga Films
- THE MOON IS WATCHING (Japan) by Naoko Watanabe, Dragonfly Entertainment, Inc.
- MORTE CUCINA (Thailand, Luxembourg, Singapore, Taiwan, USA) by Pen-ek Ratanaruang, 185 Films Company Limited (Thailand)
- NUMBER 4 KILLER (Hong Kong) by Jun Li, mm2 Studios Hong Kong Limited
- RIA (Philippines, Japan, Singapore) by Arvin Belarmino, WAF Studios
- STRANGERS IN KYOTO (Japan) by Masanori Tominaga, Tokyo Theatres Co., Ltd.
- WHERE THE MOUNTAIN WOMEN SING (Mongolia, Germany, Taiwan, Denmark) by Juefang Zhang, Flash Forward Entertainment, When Pigs Fly Films
Feature Film – Animation 4 projects
- BATIK GIRL (Malaysia) by Irwan Junaidy, The R&D Studio
- THE DRIFTING ROOM (China, Singapore) by Zhang Kang, AHAVERSE PTE.LTD.
- NIGHTLING (Norway) by Rasmus A. Sivertsen, Qvisten Animation AS
- WILDHEART (France, Belgium) by Marceau Nakayama, Keytales
Italian Projects – Fiction 3 projects
- CHILDREN OF THE RIVER (Japan, Italy) by Lisa Takeba, Antropica
- DEATH HAS NO MASTER (Venezuela, Italy, Canada, Luxembourg) by Jorge Thielen Armand, Volos Films Italia
- POMPEI (Italy) by Giuseppe Gaudino, Minerva Pictures
Italian Projects – Animation 2 projects
- AIDA AND THE BREATH OF THE MOUNTAIN (Italy, France) by Lorenzo Latrofa, La Sarraz Pictures
- THE STATE OF SOULS (Italy, France) by Peter Marcias, Movimento Film
What is Tokyo Gap-Financing Market (TGFM)?
TGFM is one of the initiatives by TIFFCOM, Asia's leading content market, to actively support projects that include Asian or Japanese elements as well as international co-productions. TGFM selects feature film projects in the fund-raising stage and provides one-on-one meeting opportunities during TIFFCOM with industry experts who are looking for projects to fund.
This year will be the second on-site edition, after being held online during the pandemic for three years from the launch in 2020. The selected projects of TGFM, which aims to fill a gap in the total budget, are characterized by a high level of viability, in comparison with other similar project markets. For sponsors such as producers, sales agents, distributors, financiers, broadcasters and investors, TGFM is an excellent opportunity to find probable high-quality projects, which are carefully selected for TIFFCOM market professionals, from among projects which have already secured a certain amount of production budget.
Many of the TGFM projects from 2020 to 2023 have been completed and received great acclaim at film festivals and theaters around the world. In recent years, an increasing number of Japanese projects have also participated in the search for influential international partners.
Successful projects from past events Year of TGFM
Participation, Title, County, Director, Year, Main Result
- 2023 ELEVEN REBELS (Japan) dir.Kazuya Shiraishi, Release in Japan in November 2024, Tokyo International Film Festival (2024) Opening Film
- 2022 Sidonie in Japan (Switzerland, Japan, Germany, France) dir. Élise Girard Venice International Film Festival(2023) Venice Days
- 2022 Who were we? (Japan) dir.Tetsuya Yomina, Tokyo International Film Festival (2023) competition
- 2022 In the Belly of a Tiger (India, USA, People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Taiwan）dir. Siddartha Jatla, Berlin International Film Festival (2024）Forum section
- 2021 Winter in Sokcho (France, Korea) dir.Koya Kamura, Toronto International Film Festival (2024), San Sebastián International Film Festival (2024)
- 2021 ADABANA (Japan, France) dir.Sayaka Kai, Release in Japan in October 2024
- 2021 Electric Child (Switzerland, Germany, Philippines) dir. Simon Jaquemet, Locarno Film Festival (2024) Piazza Grande
- 2021 The Shameless (Switzerland, France, Bulgaria) dir. Konstantin Bojanov, Cannes Film Festival (2024), Un Certain Regard, Best Actress Award
- 2021 All Shall Be Well (Hong Kong, China）dir. Ray Yeung, Berlin International Film Festiva (2024) Panorama Teddy Award
- 2021 Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust (France, Czech Republic, Slovakia）dir. Ishan Shukla, International Film Festival Rotterdam (2024)
- 2020 Performing KAORU's Funeral (Japan, Spain, Singapore) dir. Noriko Yuasa, Osaka Asian Film Festival (2024) Japan Cuts Award, Release in Japan in November 2024
- 2020 SHAMBHALA (Nepal, France, Norway, Turkey, Singapore, Hong Kong）dir. Min Bahadur Bham, Berlin International Film Festival (2024) Competition
[TIFFCOM / TGFM Outline]
TIFFCOM 2024 https://tiffcom.jp/en
- Dates: October 30th (Wed.) – November 1st (Fri.), 2024
- Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center HAMAMATSUCHO-KAN
- Organizer: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) /Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) / UNIJAPAN
Tokyo Gap-Financing Market（TGFM）in TIFFCOM2024 https://tgfm.tiffcom.jp/en
* TIFFCOM is the affiliated content market of the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) https://2024.tiff-jp.net/en/ (Monday, October 28 – Wednesday, November 6, 2024).
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