CAT ISLAND

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CAT ISLAND

By Siege LEDESMA

VIM YAPAN / ALEM CHUA PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Family - Development 2018

With the help of the ghost of her dead mother and her pet cat, Filipino spinster Catherine finds her purpose in life after fulfilling her mom's final wish in Cat Island, Japan.

Festivals
& Awards

Talents Tokyo 2016

Development Grant

Luang Prabang Filmakers Lab 2017

Aurora Media Production Grant

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Family, Second film, Drama
- Countries
- PHILIPPINES
- Languages
- FILIPINO
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Siege LEDESMA
- Writer(s)
- Siege LEDESMA
- Cast
- Eugene DOMINGO
- Producer(s)
- Alemberg ANG (VY/AC PRODUCTIONS), Sachiko MIYASE (Paradise Cafe Films)
- Synopsis
- After dedicating half of her life as caregiver to her cat-loving mother, Catherine finds herself purposeless when her mother dies. But after months of living as a depressed, slob the ghost of her mother returns to ask for Catherine’s help in completing an “unfinished business”: have her ashes scattered over Cat Island, Japan.
  
  Catherine travels to Japan and completes her mission. But as soon as she completes it, her feelings of emptiness return. To make matters worse, she gets stuck in the island due to a violent storm. Missing her flight back, and with her visa having already expired, Catherine would soon become “contentedly-resigned” to spending the rest of her life in Cat Island.
  
  One day, Catherine gets a hold of a cat-zine where she sees pictures of shelter cats on death row. For the first time since her mother’s death, Catherine finds a deep sense of purpose. But saving the cats becomes difficult with her overstaying passport and becoming branded as the “crazy cat foreigner” of the island.
  
  As she’s about to get deported, Catherine turns to the internet for one last cry for help. Before she knows it, the world has come to her and the cats’ rescue.
- Partners & financing
- VY/AC Productions (Philippines, $100,000
  Paradise Cafe Films (Japan), $100,000
  Aurora Media Holdings (Singapore), $10,000
  Saga Film Commission (Japan), $50,000 in subsidy
  Talents Tokyo (Japan), $10,000
- Production schedule
- March to November 2016
  -- research and development
  
  November 2016 to November 2018
  -- writing
  
  October 2018 to February 2019
  -- preproduction
  
  March to May 2019
  -- principal photography
  
  June to December 2019
  -- postproduction
  
  January 2020
  -- ready for release
- Beginning of shooting
- Mar 01, 2019
- End of shooting
- May 31, 2019

CAT ISLAND

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