Papa & Daddy Season 2 selected for the 2nd Tokyo Gap-Financing Market
The sequel is one of the 20 projects and the only fiction TV series to be selected for financing and development at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market.
Papa & Daddy, GagaOOLala Originals.
TIFFCOM, the Marketplace for Film and TV in Asia, an affiliated content market of the 34th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is set to host the 2nd TOKYO Gap-Financing Market (TGFM) from November 1 through November 3, 2021. TGFM is a market that provides the producers of feature film and TV series projects that are in need of further financing with the opportunity to meet one-on-one with industry experts to support their projects. In order to qualify for submission, the projects must have 60% of the total budget (50% for TV series projects) already secured and must include an Asian element. For the first time, a GagaOOLala Original, Papa & Daddy, is part of TGFM.
The popular Taiwanese LGBT drama directed by Nancy Chen (HIStory 4) and starring Melvin Sia and Mike Lin is in preparations for its second season after the success of its first six episodes, that is currently available to stream in more than 10 platforms around the world including GagaOOLala, Rakuten TV and WeTV.
The 20 projects were selected out of 97 submissions from 53 countries and regions, including an international co-production project set in Kyoto, starring Isabelle Huppert and by the French director Elise Girard and a new feature film project by Atsushi Funahashi who is attracting attention at international film festivals such as Berlin, Busan and Tokyo. This year's submissions have seen a surge in dramas featuring LGBTQ+ and other social minorities in leading roles, as well as films dealing with subject matters people are facing today, especially changes in social and personal settings, but also diversity, primarily targeting teenage audiences. Another mentionable trend, among the selected projects, is that five are directed by women, and ten are produced by women.
The average budget of projects is 1.37 million US dollars, of which an average of 65% of the budget has been secured at the time of the submission. This year’s diverse selections also include a new project by Ray Yeung, whose film ‘Suk Suk’ (2019) was an official selection at the Berlin International Film Festival and attracted attention at LGBT film festivals around the world; an international co-production project by the director Mehdi Norowzian (‘Killing Joe’ (1999), nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Short Film); an international co-production project set in India by Konstantin Bojanov (‘AVÉ’ (2011), selected at Cannes Critics' Week, and ‘Light Thereafter’ (2017), screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival). All of them in addition to the second season of ‘Papa & Daddy’.
