EXCLUSIVE: Thai-Vietnamese co-production The Chameleon Girl, which marks main Thai put up home White Mild’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 embrace 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 mission, embrace Patrick Joshua of Indonesia and Chinese language producer Zhulin Mo, whose credit embrace To Kill A Mongolian Horse, which premiered in Venice movie pageant final yr. They be a part of White Mild’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 couple of stateless Thai Hmong lady’s determined journey by identification, migration and reminiscence, set in Thailand throughout the Communist insurgency within the Nineteen Seventies.
White Mild was co-founded by Chartchai and Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, the DoP who has labored with Luca Guadagnino and Apichatpong Weeasethakul on movies equivalent to Name Me By Your Identify, Queer, Memoria and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Previous Lives. Spring Auteurs is a rising Vietnamese manufacturing home.
The mission, which is presently within the late growth and financing stage, was introduced at Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant’s Asian Venture Market 2024 and Produire au Sud 2025 on the Pageant des 3 Continents in Nante, France. Manufacturing is predicted 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 it,” mentioned Tanaseth.
“By way of the story of a stateless lady compelled 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, communicate to us all.”
