Woo Ming Jin
Director
Edmund Yeo
Producer
Malaysia
Country
Logline
The Fox King is a coming of age tale centering on two brothers, Ali and Amir, whose lives change when a new teacher, Ms. Lara, joins the school as their English teacher.
Woo Ming Jin
Woo Ming Jin(MJ) has the distinction of being the only Malaysian director to have his film screened in Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals. His latest film, Stone Turtle (2022), played in Main Competition at the Locarno International Film Festival and won the Fipresci Prize (International Critics Prize). It has been selected to 40 festivals, and sold to Amazon Prime for Asian and Parallax Films to other territories.
Edmund Yeo
Edmund Yeo is one of Malaysia’s most internationally acclaimed filmmakers, working between Malaysia and Japan. Since acquiring a Ph.D in Filmmaking from Waseda University in Tokyo, he has made numerous works that showed in top film festivals worldwide. His short films, KINGYO (Venice Film Festival 2009) and INHALATION (Sonje Award winner, Busan International Film Festival 2010) secured his reputation as a promising filmmaker. In 2017, he won the Best Director award at the Tokyo International Film Festival for his sophomore feature AQERAT (We, The Dead).His latest film is MOONLIGHT SHADOW (2021), an adaptation of internationally-acclaimed author Banana Yoshimoto’s novella starring Japanese superstar Nana Komatsu.
Yeo is also the producer and editor of Woo Ming Jin’s films likeWOMAN ON FIRE LOOKS FOR WATER (2009) and THE TIGER FACTORY (2010), & STONE TURTLE (2022).