Fran Borgia (born 1980) is a Spanish-born film producer based in

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

since 2004. He is the founder of film production company Akanga Film Asia.

Career

He was the producer and editor for ''Here'' (2009),

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’s first feature film that was presented at the 41st Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2009; and for the medium-length film, ''Earth'', presented at the 66th

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2009. Since then he has produced noteworthy feature films such as ''Sandcastle'' (2010), Boo Junfeng’s first feature film that premiered at the 49th Cannes Critics’ Week in 2010; ''Disappearing Landscape'' by Vladimir Todorovic, which premiered at the 42nd

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2013, and '' Mister John'' by Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor, a UK-Ireland-Singapore co-production, which premiered at the

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2013. In 2015, he produced K Rajagopal’s segment for the omnibus feature '' 7 Letters'' (2015). In 2016, he co-produced

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’s ''

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'' (2016), which won the Silver Bear

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for "a feature film that opens new perspectives" at the

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. In the same year, he also produced two films that premiered at the

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: Boo Junfeng’s ''Apprentice'' (2016) at

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and K. Rajagopal’s ''

A Yellow Bird ''A Yellow Bird'' is a 2016 Singaporean-French drama film directed and co-written by K. Rajagopal and starring Sivakumar Palakrishnan, Huang Lu, and Seema Biswas. It was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. ...

'' (2016) at

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. In 2017, he produced Liao Jiekai’s segment for the omnibus feature ''667'' that screened at 22nd Busan International Film Festival. In 2018, he produced Yeo Siew Hua’s '' A Land Imagined'' (2018), that won the Pardo d’oro (

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) at the

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. In 2021, he produced Kamila Andini’s '' Yuni'' (2021)'','' an Indonesian-Singapore-French co-production which won the Platform Prize at the

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. In 2023, he produced Jow Zhi Wei’s ''

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'' (2023), a Singapore-Taiwanese-French-Portuguese co-production that premiered at the

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as part of the Generation 14plus 2023; Amanda Nell Eu’s '' Tiger Stripes'' (2023), an 8-country co-production, which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Critics’ Week, and won the Grand Prize; and Chia Chee Sum’s ''Oasis of Now'' (2023), which premiered in-competition at the

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, and had its European premiere at the

as part of the Forum 2024 section. His latest films are '' Stranger Eyes'' (2024), an internationally co-produced mystery

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directed by Yeo Siew Hua starring

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and Wu Chien-ho, which was the first film from

to compete for the

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at the

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; Rima Das' '' Village Rockstars 2'' (2024), and Indian-Singapore

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, sequel to '' Village Rockstars'' (2017) which premiered at the 29th Busan International Film Festival on 4 October 2024 and won the Kim Jiseok Award, and was selected in the Generation 14plus section of the

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where it had its European premiere on 16 February 2025; and ''

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'', a

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film written and directed by Chie Hayakawa. Starring Yui Suzuki,

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, Lily Franky and Ayumu Nakajima, the film follows the childhood of Fuki, in late-1980s

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. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the

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, where it was nominated for the

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, and will be theatrically released on Japan on 20 June 2025.

Filmography

As producer

* ''

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'' (2009) (also as film editor and executive producer) * '' Sandcastle'' (2010) * ''Disappearing Landscape'' (2013) * '' Mister John'' (2013) * '' 7 Letters'' (2015) * ''

'' (2016) * ''

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'' (2016) * ''

'' (2016) (also as film editor) * ''667'' (2017) * '' A Land Imagined'' (2018) *'' Yuni'' (2021) *''

'' (2023) (also as executive producer) * '' Tiger Stripes'' (2023) * ''Oasis of Now'' (2023) * '' Stranger Eyes'' (2024) (also as executive producer) * '' Village Rockstars 2'' (2024) * ''

'' (2025)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Borgia, Fran 1980 births Spanish film producers Singaporean film producers Living people Spanish expatriates in Singapore