I have this vision before of turning my dreams into a film, I believe that it is one of the best sources for a movie plot. Most of dreams when I was growing up could probably be turn into a suspense/thriller films, (also fantasy), you can probably know already that I most of the time I’m having a bad dream. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to write down any of it and most of the time some details where already forgotten as soon as I woke up. Maybe it is not really meant to be remembered.
But for those people who felt they got a nice plot to share and created into a series or a movies someday, well this could be your chance to push for it.
HOOQ – the largest Video on Demand service in South-East Asia — calls for film professional, be it directors, producers, or scriptwriters to send in scripts and treatments for a TV-series idea they have. For these, the five best scripts, regionally, will be given a funding of USD$30,000 to be converted into a pilot episode that will debut on HOOQ. Submission can be from Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia. The best out of these five pilot episodes, decided by HOOQ subscribers and a star-studded judging panel consisting of the top film talents around Asia as well as Hollywood (to be announced), will be converted into a full series produced and aired on HOOQ.
The search for the HOOQ Filmmaker Guild began June 5, 2017 and will be open for entries until August 15, 2017.
Applicants must be either in film school or working as professionals in the film industry with prior film production experience. They are to submit the script and treatment for a mini-series or a full series with a maximum of 13 episodes for a single season in order to qualify. There will be no restriction to genre, however submissions and productions must be in the language of the applicants country.
The winning series will be part of HOOQ’s new original productions including Critical Eleven and Sweet 20 which hit cinemas last month while Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts and OTJ 2 are scheduled to come out later this year.
And just recently HOOQ announces their latest addition to the judging panel of HOOQ Filmmakers Guild. Representing the Philippines on the judging panel is renowned director Erik Matti who will lend his hand in the selection progress of this South-East Asia wide project that aims at turning the most imaginative TV series ideas of filmmakers into reality, thus celebrating Asia, the nation from which great TV arises.
Matti is the third judge announced in the region that will helm the selection process of the five pilots to be produced and the full series thereafter. The other 2 judges announced are from Indonesia – Mouly Surya, a critically acclaimed director who recent screened at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes and Nicholas Saputra, an award-winning actor and documentary producer.
