Breaking Glass Pictures is proud to announce the acquisition of North American rights to Hong Kong LGBT auteur SCUD's complete library of work. The catalogue includes award-winning titles CITY WITHOUT BASEBALL (2008), PERMANENT RESIDENCE (2009), AMPHETAMINE (2010), LOVE ACTUALLY ... SUCKS! (2011), VOYAGE (2013), and UTOPIANS (2015).
Breaking Glass Pictures will begin releasing the catalogue with the erotic drama VOYAGE on DVD & VOD February 20th with the rest of the catalogue to arrive throughout 2018. Breaking Glass acquired rights to the film in September in a deal negotiated between Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff and writer/director SCUD of Artwalker following the successful US release of UTOPIANS. VOYAGE will have a DVD and VOD release February 20th on iTunes, Amazon Instant, Google Play, Vudu, and through local cable and satellite providers.
The film held its world premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival where it received the Q Hugo Artistic Achievement Award, and went on to play numerous festivals, including the San Paolo International Film Festival and Kyoto International Film Festival. Prior to its upcoming US release, VOYAGE screened theatrically in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
"SCUD is truly a master of cinema", said Rich Wolff, CEO of Breaking Glass Pictures. "Each of his films are raw, beautiful, haunting, and, above all, powerful. We are proud to bring his entire filmography to US audiences in 2018."
VOYAGE centers on a young psychiatrist who embarks on a lone voyage from Hong Kong along the coast of South-East Asia to overcome his depression. On the sea, he records stories of people departed from this world prematurely, and reflects on the sad experiences he encountered with former patients. Meanwhile, what awaits him on the shore is the ultimate irony of life.
Scud (??) is a film scriptwriter, producer, and director. He was born in mainland China amid the Cultural Revolution, and was given his name by his eldest uncle Li Kang (??), a poet and writer of Singapore, and raised by his grandmother. He moved to Hong Kong at 13, and devoted the next 20 years to a career in IT, where he worked for multi-national companies, but eventually founded a public listed company, and acquired a bachelor degree through part-time study. He then migrated to Australia, but was still not satisfied. Realizing that he had fulfilled the dream of others but not his own, he returned to Hong Kong in 2005 to start Artwalker, an independent film company.
Cast: Ryo van Kooten, Debra Baker, Sebastian Castro, Adrian Ron Heung Leon Hill,
Haze Leung, Byron Pang, Jason Poon, Susan Siu, Linda So, Leni Speidel
Director: SCUD
Written by: SCUD
Producers: Annie Lau, Leni Speidel
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