Distribution Workshop has picked up worldwide rights to Chinese language director Steven Zhang Zhonghua’s IOU, a comedy drama set towards the background of latest 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 era. Kwok is one in all Hong Kong’s largest stars, not too long ago showing in Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In.
Taipei-based Distribution Workshop will launch gross sales on the movie at Filmart, which is going down March 17-20 in Hong Kong.
Kwok performs a determined man who’s attempting to repay his money owed by any means crucial. He blockades the agricultural house of a pair of simple-minded however compassionate siblings, hoping to pressure their father house to repay his mortgage to him, however is compelled to make an surprising selection.
First introduced in 2020, IOU was chosen to take part within the Golden Rooster Movie Venture Market and HKIFF Business. Manufacturing began in early March with a funds of round $3M.
Zhang’s credit embrace Hearty Tomato (2012), which screened at Warsaw Worldwide Movie Competition, The House In The Tree (2019) and House By The River (2025), which screened in competitors at Poland Kinolub Movie Competition.
Along with IOU, Distribution Workshop’s Filmart slate contains Juno Mak’s Sons Of The Neon Night time, Dante Lam’s latest Lunar New Yr launch Operation Hadal, Vincent Chow’s Little Crimson Candy and Penguin Lady, from Taiwanese first-time director Yuyu Yang.
