Wi Ding Ho's debut feature Pinoy Sunday has been selected in

L’ATELIER of Cannes 2009

台灣導演何蔚庭（HO Wi Ding）的第一部劇情長片《台北星期天》(Pinoy Sunday) 入選坎城影展電影基金會的創投競賽。

Here's press release from L’ATELIER 2009

(http://www.festival-cannes.com)

To assist directors in financing and speeding completion of their projects, the Festival created the Atelier in 2005.

For its fifth edition, the Atelier de la Cinéfondation has chosen 15 projects from 14 countries. The selection has been restricted to highlight both up and coming directors: Ho Wi Ding, Caran Hartsfield or Bertrand Mandico, and established directors: Zhang Yuan, Faouzi Bensaidi, Diego Lerman, Danielle Arbid or Malgoska Szumowska.

Alongside the producer(s) of their films, each director will meet in Cannes from May 15th to May 22nd film industry professionals during the course of meetings that are presently being organized.

The Livre des Projets, in addition to a form to request a meeting with our directors, will be available from April 15th on the Cinéfondation website.

South Africa - The Umbrella Men by John BARKER (2nd feature film)
Argentina - Moral Sciences by Diego LERMAN (3rd feature film)
China - Executioner Garden by ZHANG Yuan (11th feature film)
Egypt - Oblivion by Atef HETATA (2nd feature film)
USA - Bury me standing by Caran HARTSFIELD (1st feature film)
USA - Free in deed by Jake MAHAFFY (3rd feature film)
France - L'Homme qui cache la forêt by Bertrand MANDICO (1st feature film)
Italy - Shun Li and the Poet by Andrea SEGRE (2nd feature film)
Lebanon / France - Chambres d'Hôtel by Danielle ARBID (3rd feature film)
Morocco -  Death for sale by Faouzi BENSAIDI (3rd feature film)
Uzbekistan - 40 Days of Silence by Saodat ISMAILOVA (1st feature film)
Poland - Sponsoring by Malgoska SZUMOWSKA (4th feature film)
Portugal - Red Cross by Hugo VIEIRA DA SILVA  (2nd feature film)
Taiwan / Philippines - Pinoy Sunday by HO Wi Ding (1st feature film)
Turkey - Our Grand Despair by Seyfi TEOMAN (2nd feature film)

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Posted: Mon., Mar. 16, 2009, 8:50am PT

15 films picked for Cannes workshop

Program helps projects complete financing

Zhang Yuan's "Executioner Garden," Faouzi Bensaidi's "Death For Sale" and Diego Lerman's "Moral Sciences" are among the 15 projects selected for the Cannes Film Festival's production workshop.

The fifth edition of the workshop, known as the Cinefondation Atelier, runs May 15-22. Its organizers arrange networking opportunities for projects' directors and producers to help them complete financing for their projects.

"Garden," from China's Yuan ("Dada's Dance") is a reportedly creepy prison-set drama. Bensaidi ("WWW -- What a Wonderful World") again genre blends with "Death," a heist-meets-social issue pic. Argentine Diego Lerman's "Sciences," about a sexually-repressed school monitor, won a 2009 Sundance/NHK Intl. Filmmakers Award.

"A notable number of projects this year turn on sexuality," said Cinefondation director Georges Goldenstern.

"40 Days of Silence," from Uzbekistan's Saodat Ismailova, explores female power in childbirth and sex; Portuguese Hugo Vieira da Silva's "Red Cross," is a Berlin-set coming of ager.

Lebanese-born helmer Danielle Arbid ("In the Battlefields") charts a passionate Beirut-set affair in "Chambres d'hotel," while Pole Malgoska Szumowska will bring "Sponsoring," a study of student prostitution.

Two U.S. filmmakers made the Atelier cut: Jake Mahaffy ("Wellness), with religious redemption drama "Free In Deed," and Caran Hartsfield with "Bury Me Standing, a comedic drama set in a Philadelphia hood.

The Atelier will feature three feature film debuts: "Standing"; the Taipei-set Filipino migrant tale "Pinoy Sunday," from Malaysia's Ho Wi Ding, and Betrand Mandico's "The Man Who Hides the Forest," about a filmmaker's crazed expedition into the depths of Siberia.

South African John Barker will be pitching "The Umbrella Man," about a minstrel carnival, and Egyptian Atef Hetata brings "Oblivion," a Cairo-set portrait of the pursuit of money and virility.

Rounding up the selection are Andrea Segre's "Shun Li and the Poet," which won Rome Festival's European Project Prize for its original take on immigration, and Turk Seyfi Teoman's "Our Grand Despair," a male friendship drama adapting Baris Bicakci's novel.

The Atelier boasts a high success rate: nine of last year's 15 projects are now completed, according to Goldenstern.