EWA

SYNOPSIS

An animated science fiction feature film written and directed by Keith Sicat.

In a future of intergalactic migrant workers, Ewa is an idealistic scientist forced to take a dangerous job in outer space to provide for your young son’s future. When she is marooned on a hostile world, she struggles to reconnect with her child who is lightyears away.

FILM LABS

American Film Showcase
SIKAP Pitch Workshop
IFIC Pitch Workshop
Full Circle Lab
SE Asian Annecy Pitch Workshop

FILM MARKETS

BIFAN IT Projects (Korea)
MDEC Kre8tif! Pitches (Malaysia)
DGPI/Cinemalaya Pitches (Philippines)
Locarno International Film Festival Match Me Program (Switzerland)
Berlin Film Festival Visiting Producers Program (Germany)
Annecy MIFA Pitches (France)

AWARDS

CreatePH Development Grant
Film Development Council of the Philippines

PRESS

“Cue a political allegory dressed as a sci-fi thriller, in which a migrant worker in the future takes a dangerous job in space to secure her son’s wellbeing. Indigenous tribes and spiritual epiphanies feature.”
Alex Dudok De Wit, Cartoon Brew “Kre8tif! Pitches: Five Most Promising Projects in Southeast Asia

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