Fran Borgia

Fran Borgia was born in Spain and is based in Singapore since 2003. He is the founder of Akanga Film Asia. He was the Producer and Editor for "HERE", Ho Tzu Nyen'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 Venice Film Festival 2009. Since then he has produced critically acclaimed films such as "Sandcastle", 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 International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013, and "Mister John" by Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor, an UK-Ireland-Singapore co-production, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2013. In 2015 he produced and edited K Rajagopal's segment for the omnibus feature "7 Letters" (20th Busan International Film Festival 2015). In 2016 he co- produced Lav Diaz's "A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery", which premiered In-Competition at the Berlinale 2016 and it won the Silver Bear; and produced two films that premiered in Cannes Film Festival in 2016: Boo Junfeng's "Apprentice" (Un Certain Regard) and K. Rajagopal's "A Yellow Bird" (Cannes Critics' Week). In 2017 he was hired to Line Produce the Warner Bros' feature film shot in Singapore, "Crazy Rich Asians". In 2018 he produced Yeo Siew Hua's "A Land Imagined", a Singapore-French-Dutch co-production that won the Pardo d'oro (Golden Leopard) at the 71st Locarno Film Festival, the first ever Top Prize win for a Singapore film in any A-List festival. In 2019 he was hired by HBO to Line Produce "Westworld" Season 3 (2020). In 2021 he produced Kamila Andini's "Yuni" (TIFF 2021 - Platform Prize Winner), an Indonesian-Singapore-French co-production. More recently, he produced Jow Zhi Wei's "Tomorrow is a Long Time", a Singapore-Taiwanese-French-Portuguese co-production, premiered at Berlinale Generation in 2023; Amanda Nell Eu's "Tiger Stripes", an 8-country co-production, premiered at Cannes Critics' Week 2023 and won the Grand Prize; and Chia Chee Sum's "Oasis of Now", which premiered at the 28th Busan International Film Festival and had its European premiere at Berlinale Forum 2024. His latest film is Yeo Siew Hua's "Stranger Eyes" (2024), an internationally co-produced mystery thriller film starring Lee Kang-sheng and Wu Chien-ho. It is the first film from Singapore to ever compete for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.