A Film Projectionist Pirates Movies in ‘King of Peking’
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Tweetable Logline: Rather than get mad when our last movie was bootlegged, we went out to make a movie about bootlegging.
Elevator Pitch: Inspired by a true story about fake movies, this is a feature film made by a group of friends whose last movie was widely pirated in Beijing. Set in 1998, “King of Peking” follows a traveling film projectionist who, with the advent of DVD, starts a small pirated movie business from home in order to keep custody of his son.
Production Team:
About the Film: Our entire film crew was raised in Beijing and many of us are parents of young kids. The director is a soon-to-be dad. China has changed drastically since our childhood, and this is a chance for us to capture some of the Beijing we remember from our youth. We want to explore how sometimes even our most well intentioned actions as parents can set bad examples for our kids.
Current Status: We’re currently fundraising in order to take this from script to screen.
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