International Courant
Berlin-based gross sales agent ArtHood Leisure has picked up world rights, outdoors of a lot of East Asia, to “Salli,” a movie which has its world premiere this week within the Busan Worldwide Movie Competition’s A Window on Asian Cinema program.
The Mandarin-, Taiwanese-, English- and French-language movie follows a lonely middle-aged rooster farmer Hui-Chun, who would not converse English and develops a romantic relationship by way of an app with a French man who calls himself Martin. Within the on-line world, Hui-Chun is Salli. Regardless of everybody calling it a romance rip-off, she desires to show that love actually exists.
The Taiwan-France movie marks the characteristic debut of Taipei-based filmmaker Lien Chien-Hung after a number of acclaimed shorts and a TV film.
“The explanation why I need to make ‘Salli’ is due to quite common information in Taiwan. Many women and men are deceived by love on the web,” Lien informed Selection earlier this 12 months. “Even bystanders, we all the time snort at why these persons are so silly. How can they imagine in love on the web? However I mirrored, is there one thing mistaken with these individuals who imagine in love? They simply need to be cherished. So I began Salli’s story.”
“What I need to say by way of ‘Salli’ is that everybody longs to like and to be cherished, however do not get misplaced within the seek for love and neglect that, most of all, it’s important to love your self first,” Lien provides .
“Salli” is produced by Lee Lieh (“Detention”), Dennis Wu (“The Put up-Fact World”), Amanda Tseng Man-Yin (“The Forest”) and Uilin Ong (“The Silent Forest”) and manufacturing corporations embody ENLA Media, the Graduate Co. and Bole Movie.
On the undertaking stage, the movie attended a number of markets and undertaking pitching occasions together with the 2019 Golden Horse Movie Undertaking Promotion Plan, the place it received that 12 months’s grand prize, in addition to the newer Hong Kong — Asia Movie Financing Discussion board (HAF).
“We have now been following the title since HAF, adopted by their pitching in Cannes,” stated Nesligul Satir, gross sales supervisor at ArtHood, informed Selection.
The corporate’s remit excludes Taiwan, China (together with Hong Kong and Macau), India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, and Myanmar.
ArtHood Leisure describes itself as “a gross sales firm for arthouse and auteur cinema targeted on movies from the Center East, a area gaining increasingly political, financial and cultural significance.”
“‘Salli’ is our first movie acquired from outdoors the MENA area. With ‘Salli,’ we’re increasing into new territories and discovering new abilities,” Satir stated.
‘Salli’ Gross sales Rights Picked up by ArtHood
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