Distribution Workshop has picked up worldwide rights to Chinese language director Steven Zhang Zhonghua’s IOU, a comedy drama set in opposition to the background of current unlawful fundraising scams, starring Aaron Kwok.
The movie is produced by Hong Kong’s Julia Chu, reuniting with Kwok after their work collectively on Port Of Name (2015) and The place The Wind Blows (2022). Zhang is described as an rising expertise from China’s post-80s technology. Kwok is one among Hong Kong’s greatest stars, lately showing in Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In.
Taipei-based Distribution Workshop will launch gross sales on the movie at Filmart, which is happening March 17-20 in Hong Kong.
Kwok performs a determined man who’s making an attempt to repay his money owed by any means needed. He blockades the agricultural residence of a pair of simple-minded however compassionate siblings, hoping to pressure their father residence to repay his mortgage to him, however is pressured to make an surprising selection.
First introduced in 2020, IOU was chosen to take part within the Golden Rooster Movie Undertaking Market and HKIFF Business. Manufacturing began in early March with a funds of round $3M.
Zhang’s credit embody Hearty Tomato (2012), which screened at Warsaw Worldwide Movie Pageant, The Residence In The Tree (2019) and Residence By The River (2025), which screened in competitors at Poland Kinolub Movie Pageant.
Along with IOU, Distribution Workshop’s Filmart slate contains Juno Mak’s Sons Of The Neon Night time, Dante Lam’s current Lunar New Yr launch Operation Hadal, Vincent Chow’s Little Purple Candy and Penguin Woman, from Taiwanese first-time director Yuyu Yang.
