EXCLUSIVE: Thai-Vietnamese co-production The Chameleon Girl, which marks main Thai publish home White Gentle’s transfer into manufacturing, has added co-producers from China and Indonesia and unveiled its first solid.
The movie will star Awat Ratanapintha, who gained the Rising Star award from Marie Claire at Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant’s Asia Star Awards in 2023, alongside Prapamonton Eiamchan, whose credit embody Venice title Anatomy Of Time. Awat got here to note after starring in Doi Boy, which premiered at BIFF in 2023.
Co-producers becoming a member of the venture, embody Patrick Joshua of Indonesia and Chinese language producer Zhulin Mo, whose credit embody To Kill A Mongolian Horse, which premiered in Venice movie competition final yr. They be part of White Gentle’s Chartchai Ketnust and Pham Gia Quy of Vietnam’s Spring Auteurs on the movie.
Thailand’s Tanaseth Tulyathan has written and directed the movie, a few stateless Thai Hmong girl’s determined journey by way of identification, migration and reminiscence, set in Thailand throughout the Communist insurgency within the Seventies.
White Gentle was co-founded by Chartchai and Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, the DoP who has labored with Luca Guadagnino and Apichatpong Weeasethakul on movies comparable to Name Me By Your Title, Queer, Memoria and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Previous Lives. Spring Auteurs is a rising Vietnamese manufacturing home.
The venture, which is at the moment within the late growth and financing stage, was offered at Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant’s Asian Undertaking Market 2024 and Produire au Sud 2025 on the Pageant des 3 Continents in Nante, France. Manufacturing is anticipated to begin in mid-2026.
“The Chameleon Girl is a private exploration of identification, survival, and belonging – rooted in my immigrant journey within the U.S. and impressed by the resilience of the various ladies who formed me and people who have lived by way of it,” stated Tanaseth.
“By means of the story of a stateless girl pressured to imagine one other’s identification, the movie confronts historic amnesia and celebrates those that endure in silence. It’s a tribute to forgotten voices that, as soon as heard, converse to us all.”
