Boo Junfeng's Trinity Heads to Tokyo Seeking Final Funding
Director Boo Junfeng's new feature, Trinity, is one of the projects pitching at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market, which runs from 28 to 30 October. The team arrives with a small gap in financing still to close, according to Variety. Gap financing is the money a film still needs to finish after its main funding is in place.
The story follows Johnny, a pastor from Taiwan with a large following in Singapore at a megachurch. He stages elaborate acrobatic shows in the style of Cirque du Soleil. He then grows infatuated with Yang, a newcomer to his training program. The film is built in three chapters modelled on the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The film is now in post-production, the stage where editing, sound and visual work take shape. It is produced by Peanut Pictures, Filmagic Pictures and Gaïjin. It is listed as a co-production involving 11 countries: Taiwan, France, Singapore, Poland, Greece, Japan, Germany, Brazil, South Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines. A co-production means companies in several countries share the making and the money.
Raymond Phathanavirangoon co-wrote the script with Boo and is also a producer. He is the founder of SEAFIC, according to the Tokyo International Film Festival's content market, TIFFCOM, which runs the gap-financing event. The market is part of TIFFCOM, the business side attached to the Tokyo International Film Festival. This year is its seventh edition, and its lineup holds 24 projects.
In October, Trinity was also selected among 11 feature projects for the JAFF Future Project, reported by Yahoo Entertainment. The Tokyo market also teamed up with Frontières, a platform for genre films such as horror and thrillers, on part of its lineup when it was announced in September.
Boo is best known for his Singapore-based work and currently chairs the Singapore International Film Festival. Gap-financing markets like this one give projects a chance to meet sales agents, distributors and investors before a film is finished. Whether Trinity closes its remaining gap, and where it will screen, has not been announced.
