At AFM, the film will be introduced for presales as a key pillar of Thiruvananthapuram-based Toonz’s international slate.
The 90-minute pic is based on a book from Chinese-American author and chef Ying Chang Compestine, and produced by Singapore’s Robot Playground Media, whose co-founder, Ervin Han, is helming the project.
He will lead a team of animators from Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan, who are uniting under the Robot Playground studio banner.
The story follows four standalone, but interlinked tales, each inspired by an iconic Chinese dish and tied together by a spectral chef, who presides over a mysterious, otherwordly restaurant. Producers say it blends “the macabre, the playful and the poetic” to deliver “a chilling cinematic experience that explores themes of human frailty and ancestral guilt and greed.”
“A Banquet…
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