Calgary-based Peterson Polaris Corp, led by producer and director Michael Peterson (pictured left), has joined the feature What’s Left of Us from Filipino-American filmmaker Tyrone Acierto (pictured right).
Peterson is producing the dystopian action-horror film along with Wilfredo Manalang, founder and president of Philippines-based FUSEE, in association with Acierto’s U.S. and Phillipines-based CineBandits.
“After our recent positive experience with Le Foyer Films … on the yet-to-be released film Elsewhere at Night by Marianne Métivier, we are thrilled to have found another Canadian company to produce with,” said FUSEE managing director George Sommerrock in a statement.
What’s Left of Us, set to be filmed in the Philippines with an international cast, follows a family struggling to survive in a world haunted by a memory-erasing infection. The film is aiming to enter production in 2026, Peterson tells Playback Daily.
The film won the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA)/Focus Asia Co-Production Award, worth €10,000 (C$15,700), at the Far East Film Festival earlier in May. The award is presented to the project with the most potential for Europe-Asia collaboration.
Image courtesy of Peterson Polaris Corp