Kenneth Dagatan’s ‘Molder’ Takes Top Award At NAFF Project Market
deadline.comSupernatural thriller Molder from Filipino director Kenneth Dagatan has won the top prize at the 17th Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF) project market, which runs alongside Korea’s Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan).
The third title from Dagatan took home a cash prize of KRW15M (US$11,000) for winning the Bucheon Award. The project also scooped up the Blood Window Award, which includes an expenses-paid invitation to the Blood Window project market at Ventana Sur in Argentina.
Philippines-Singapore-Italy co-production Molder is targeting a shoot date in the second half of 2025 and is looking to cast a major Italian actress.
Dagatan’s In My Mother’s Skin from 2023 premiered in the Midnight Section of the Sundance Film Festival as the only non-English language title in the section, and was later acquired by Amazon. “Bifan has always had a place in my heart,” Dagatan told Deadline, about his special relationship with the festival. “I first came to Bifan for the Fantastic Film School in 2019.
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