ADFEST UNVEILS FAB FOUR DIRECTORS

ADFEST has revealed the identities of this year’s Fabulous Four, who have been selected from 53 entries from around the Asia Pacific region.

The four directors will now go on to create four short films, which will premiere at ADFEST on 19-21 March 2009.

The four Fabulous Four finalists are:

Brian Lucknasuwan, Big Blue Production, Bangkok                   

Short Film Title: ‘I’m Made in Asia’

Nitiz Wongthed, The Bandits, Bangkok                   

Short Film Title: ‘The Right Hand’

Sam Bryant, Luscious International, Sydney                     

Short Film Title: ‘GPS’

Yuji Shiota, HAT Inc, Tokyo                         

Short Film Title: ‘Sara’

All four finalists were tasked with creating entertaining and engaging scripts based on the theme, ‘MADE IN ASIA’.

Last year, the first-ever Fabulous Four competition received 14 excellent script submissions.  In only its 2nd year, 53 scripts were submitted by New Directors from 22 cities – an impressive increase on last year’s total entries.

The 7 jurists – including Jury President Prasoon Pandey, director at Corcoise Films – on the Film Craft & New Director panel voted independently for their four favorite scripts, with the identities of the directors and their origins kept anonymous to all jury members. The top 4 directors, now more affectionately known as the “Fabulous Four”, will now show and discuss their 3-5 minute short films to delegates at this year’s ADFEST in March.

In addition to screening their films to the region’s top creatives at ADFEST, the Fabulous Four films will go on to compete at Europe Young Directors Award, one of the most prestigious events for launching upcoming directors in the world.

ADFEST will enter the Fabulous Four short films into Europe Young Directors Award at no additional cost to their production companies.

To watch this year’s Fabulous Four finalists, register for ADFEST, which takes place in Pattaya, Thailand on 19-21 March.