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HANA
Production Country (s) Singapore / Korea / Japan Production Company (s) Gorylah Pictures
Genre Drama / Horror Production Spec 4K / Color / 90min
Production Stage
(or Project Status)		 In Development Expected Date of Completion Q1 2022
Total Budget
(Negative Cost)		 1,500,000 USD Confirmed Financing -
Fellow Name NAKANISHI Mai
Director NAKANISHI Mai Email of Director infohanafilms@gmail.com
Profile of the Director Nakanishi Mai has extensive experience across the creative and business functions within the film industry working for major companies including Kadokawa. With a focus in horror, she has collaborated with international genre stalwarts since 2013. In 2018, she made a directorial debut with HANA, an award winning supernatural short which was invited to festivals including Sitges, Bifan, and Mumbai. A genuine genre enthusiast at heart, Nakanishi runs Scream Queen FilmFest Tokyo, the only female-centric genre festival in Asia. She is an alumna of Asian Film Academy and Bifan’s Fantastic Film School.
Producer (s) Junxiang HUANG, Eric KHOO Email of Producer (s) jx@zhaowei.com
Profile of the Producer (s) Junxiang Huang has enjoyed producing a variety of work including Eric Khoo’s Ramen Shop (2018), sold by MK2 to over 30 territories and Apprentice (Cannes Un Certain Regard 2016). Another highlight is producing HBO Asia’s Folklore (2018), a horror anthology spanning six countries which travelled to Fantastic Fest, Sitges and Toronto International Film Festival.

Eric Khoo is an Award winning filmmaker and Cultural Medallion recipient who has been credited for reviving the Singaporean film industry. His film Be With Me opened the Directors Fortnight in Cannes 2005, and his fourth feature, My Magic, was nominated for the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2008.
Logline When a college student accepts a well-paying babysitting job, she soon learns the terrifying nature of the job and a secret behind the little girl she is hired to babysit.
Synopsis SUJIN (19) and her mother NAYOUNG (45) were involved in a fatal car accident. Sujin survives but her mother isn’t as fortunate. In desperate need of money to pay for the mother’s medical expenses, Sujin looks for a well-paying part-time job. By a stroke of good fortune, she is hired by MINHEE (42), a veteran pediatrician and single-mother, to take care of her shy and elusive daughter HANA (4).

Draped in a white sheet with holes cut out for her eyes, Hana, quiet yet playful, drifts around the house, teasing Sujin with her childish antics. But before long, her casual teasing begins to descend into something much more sinister. The naïve Sujin endures each challenge for the sake of the money.

Soon, Sujin discovers that it was just a couple of months before that Minhee’s negligence resulted in Hana’s tragic death. Minhee had urgently left for work, leaving Hana alone, expecting the babysitter to show up. However, the babysitter called in sick, and a playful Hana accidentally locked herself in a wooden chest while wanting to surprise her mother, eventually suffocating to her death prior to her mother’s return.

Now, Minhee looks to right a wrong, desiring Sujin to fulfill the role of the babysitter at all costs. But Sujin harbors a dark secret of her own, and soon, both Sujin and Minhee find their destinies intertwining, as they are challenged to escape the invisible social pressures of society, each blinded by their bonds to their loved ones.