Anthony Chen Talks Sundance Title ‘Drift’, Upcoming Projects And Plans To Shoot In Hong Kong

Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen is on a roll – his English-language debut Drift is premiering at Sundance Film Festival, he has Chinese-language drama The Breaking Ice being readied for festival…

being readied for festival play later this year, and several other directing projects in different languages at various stages of development and pre-production. , which stars Cynthia Erivo as a Liberian refugee scratching out an existence on a Greek island, is thematically not a million miles away from Chen’s previous two features –– in that they’re stories about outsiders or people struggling to find their place in the world and fit in.

for Film4 and Potboiler. He is also gearing up to shoot the third part of this Singapore-set, Chinese-language ‘, which like the first two films, will again star Yeo Yann Yann and Koh Jia Ler. “This time they’re playing strangers forced to become a family,” says Chen. “And Koh has literally grown up, because he was 11 on my first film and he’s now 22.” in Hong Kong, where he moved last year with his wife and son, due to his wife’s job, and expects to remain a few years.

Being fully bilingual and at ease working between different languages and cultures, Chen is not stopping at Chinese and English projects, and is also developing a feature in Korea, a couple of series in various languages, and continues to work as a producer of Southeast Asian films through his Singapore-based Giraffe Pictures.

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