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‘Manta Ray’ Star Wanlop Rungkumjad Heads Cast of Taiwan Drama Film ‘Mongrel,’ Screening at IFFR Darkroom (EXCLUSIVE)
Wanlop Rungkumjad, the star of festival hit 'Manta Ray,' heads the cast of Taiwan-set 'Mongrel,' screening as a work-in-progress at the IFFR Darkroom.
Set in the mountains of Taiwan, the film follows Rungkumjad’s character Oom, an undocumented migrant and on-demand caregiver for rural families, who struggles to preserve his humanity as he cares for the elderly and disabled. E&W’s previous films “Taste,” Kirsten Tan’s Sundance prize-winner “Pop Aye,” and “Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash” were respectively represented by Wild Bunch, Cercamon and The Match Factory. “Drawing from my own experiences and the stories of countless others from the Southeast Asian community I have encountered over the past decade in Taiwan, ‘Mongrel’ is a continuation of my concern for the precarious lives in the liminal spaces of Taiwanese society.
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