What’s Left of Us, an upcoming Filipino feature directed by Tyrone Acierto, has won the TAICCA Focus Asia Co-Production Award in Udine, Italy.
The prize, given to a project that demonstrates the greatest potential for Europe-Asia collaboration, includes a cash prize of €10,000 ($11,300).
The film, currently in development, is set in a world ravaged by a mysterious disease that erases memories. The story revolves around a family who battle both the infected and their own fading minds as they attempt to survive and stick together.
Producer is Wilfredo Manalang, known for Duong Dieu Linh’s Vietnamese feature Don’t Cry Butterfly, which won best film at last year’s Venice Critics’ Week. He was also executive producer on Plan 75, the feature debut of Japan’s Chie Hayakawa, which played in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2022 and was selected as Japan’s entry to the Oscars.
Production companies are Manalang’s FUSEE and Acierto’s CineBandits. Acierto previously directed 2019 psychological thriller Watch Me Kill and debut The Grave Bandits, a zombie horror that won best film and best director in the New Wave category at the Metro Manila Film Festival in 2012.
Some 11 projects in development a seven works in progress were showcased in the All Genres Project Market of Focus Asia, the industry platform of Udine’s Fast East Film Festival (FEFF).
More than 200 participants from 40 territories attended and nearly 300 one-to-one meetings took place from April 28-30. Now in its 10th edition, Focus Asia also included panel discussions and case studies with participants attending from across Europe, Asia, Latin America and Canada.
Previous Focus Asia selections that have achieved recent festival success include Antoinette Jadaone’s Sunshine, which screened at last year’s Toronto and the Berlinale in February, and Nicole Woodford’s Last Shadow at First Light, which screened at San Sebastian in 2023.
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