BETTY BANGKOK Narrative Feature Film in development
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Lovisa Inserra
PRODUCER: Emma K Dixgård & Hans Lönnerheden
US Co-PRODUCER: Marc Henry Johnson
Thai Production Company: Living Films
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Linda Källérus
COMPOSER: Björn Dixgård
ACTORS: Clark Johnson
WEBSITE: BETTYBANGKOK.COM
BETTY, a 10-year-old street kid, is brought to Bangkok to sell flowers to the tourists who are slowly transforming the area. The year is 1987 and Bangkok is a place where you can still find areas crowded by adventurers, hiding from conventions, conformity and whatever else they left behind. Out of all the bars in Bangkok, she walks in to The Shangri-La owned by JIM SLICK, a Vietnam War veteran who likes kids only marginally better than the silver spooned travellers disrupting the status quo of this last clandestine outpost. But Betty is no ordinary kid. She is marked by war and fighting for a place to belong, a feeling Slick knows only too well.
Development Funding from The Swedish Film Institute and MEDIA program. Selected for Shanghai Co-Production Financing Forum.