ScreenSingapore Presents Film Financing Project Market

SINGAPORE: ScreenSingapore 2015, which runs alongside Asia TV Forum & Market, is set to launch the Southeast Asian Film Financing (SAFF) Project Market at this year's event.

The Southeast Asian Film Financing Project Market will take place December 2 to 4 at the Marina Bay Sands Singapore in partnership with the Southeast Asian Audio-Visual Association (SAAVA) and the Ties that Bind (TTB) producing workshop. Yeow Hui Leng, the senior project director of Asia TV Forum & Market and ScreenSingapore at Reed Exhibitions, stated: "With this latest addition to ScreenSingapore, the promising minds in filmmaking will have the opportunity and a platform to experience skills and knowledge transfer and potentially be paired up with international financiers and co-producers within the region to push their projects forward.”

“SAAVA is proud to partner [with] ScreenSingapore and TTB in establishing this bold new initiative to advance creative development regionally and to institutionalize the media investment landscape in Southeast Asia,” added Justin Deimen, the executive director of SAAVA. “Our continued mandate will be to encourage best practices in content producing and distribution in order to promote Southeast Asian creative industries internationally through our members.”

"SAAVA and ScreenSingapore are the perfect partners to build the new project market in Singapore, as they offer a fantastic pan-Asian professional network similar in its goals and philosophy to what EAVE does in Europe,” commented Kristina Trapp, the CEO of European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE), who will judge the final projects. “We are particularly excited to bring Ties That Bind to Singapore as our new Asian workshop location having experienced the wealth of producing and directing talent coming from Southeast Asia. We are confident that the combination with projects and professionals from Europe and other Asian regions will result in successful co-productions and business relations."