EST Companions With Thailand’s N8 To Carry Asian Movies To International Markets – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: EST Studios has entered right into a partnership with New York and Bangkok-based N8 Studios to symbolize a slate of Asian movies at world markets together with the Marche du Movie at Cannes. 

The 2 firms will give attention to worldwide gross sales of Thai, Korean, Chinese language and Indonesian titles. “The purpose is to deliver Asia to the World, forge new partnerships with filmmakers from the East and introduce new premium Asian movie and tv IP to world audiences,” the companions stated in a press release. 

The primary title within the partnership is Thai hit thriller horror House For Lease, co-produced by N8 Studios and Thailand’s GDH. The movie has been broadly launched theatrically in Asia by GDH and can quickly be rolled out throughout Latin America. EST N8 will symbolize the movie in North America. 

The partnership was negotiated by Tenten Wei for EST Studios and N8 Studios’ co-founder Kris Eiamsakulrat 

“We’re very excited to companion with N8 on a slate of unbelievable movies that may entertain audiences worldwide,” stated EST Studios chairman and co-CEO Jaeson Ma.

Eiamsakulrat and N8 co-founder Rachel Wu stated: “We search for tales that join, problem, and have fun the 4.5 billion Asian voices world wide. We goal to inform high-quality Asian tales with nuanced fact and multi-dimensional honesty; showcasing revolutionary views and highly effective narratives on a worldwide scale and for the worldwide viewers.” 

EST lately picked up Korean horror Chabak from producer Tiger Yeongseop Kim, The Harvest from Cambodian filmmaker Caylee So, and Canneseries title Streams Movement From A River. The corporate’s titles as a producer embrace Okay-Pops!, directed by Grammy winner Anderson .Paak, and documentary Hidden Letters, which premiered finally yr’s Tribeca Movie Pageant.

N8 Studios is movie, documentary and TV manufacturing outfit at the moment creating a slate of eight initiatives for world audiences. Upcoming initiatives embrace characteristic documentary Heals, directed by Thailand’s Pailin Wedel, about Pangina Heals, Asia’s first RuPaul drag race star with a Las Vegas residency.