Alia Bhatt’s film selected for Asian Project Market at BIFF

Difficult Daughters, directed by Soni Razdan, and produced by Alia and Shaheen Bhatt, along with veteran Indian indie producer Alan McAlex and Grishma Shah, has made it to this year’s Asian Project Market (APM) at Busan International Film Festival.

Payal Kapadia, Kani Kusruti and Jeo Baby’s The Last of Them Plagues, directed by emerging Indian director Kunjila Mascillamani, has also made it to the list of selected projects. Other notable entries from India include, Lanka (The Fire) directed by Saurav Rai and Moon by Pradip Kurbah.Soni Razdan when contacted said, “We are in the process of putting the project together. It’s too early to talk about it.”

This year, APM had received a record-breaking 455 submissions from 44 countries of which 30 made it to the final list. APM helps discover emerging talent and connects them with global investors, producers, and distributors, while fostering an ecosystem for pragmatic co-production.