Australian writer-director Aaron Wilson is shooting a follow-up to his debut feature Canopy, which focuses on one of the lead characters 30 years after the end of World War II.
In Canopy, Khan Chittenden plays Jim, an Australian fighter pilot who is shot down in combat during the Japanese invasion of Singapore.
Jim is forced to navigate through enemy territory in search of sanctuary. Taiwanese actor Mo Tzu-Yi plays Seng, a Singapore-Chinese resistance fighter who joins him in the struggle to survive.
The companion film, as yet untitled, follows Robert Menzies as Jim as he copes with civilian life in the 1970s. The producer, Finer Films’ Katrina Fleming, tells IF that Wilson is yet to shoot a coda which is set in the present day. It will be completed in time for next year’s festival season, she says.
Wilson has just signed with the Paradigm, the US talent agency which recently agreed to represent Around the Block writer-director Sarah Spillane and its co-star Hunter Page-Lochard. All three are with RGM in Australia.
Canopy will screen at the Busan International Film Festival in Korea which runs from October 3-12, with Wilson and Mo Tzu-Yi in attendance.
The international sales rep, Odin’s Eye Entertainment’s Michael Favelle, will introduce the film to buyers from the region at Busan’s Asian Film Market.
Favelle is in discussions with US and Australian distributors.