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Where The Road Meets The Sun honoured at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2011
By InCinemas / 10 May 2011 (Tuesday)
[Official Movie Trailer Below]
Singapore, 10 May 2011 – The four leading men, Eric Mabius, Fernando Noriega, Will Yun Lee and Luke Brandon Field of Singaporean Writer-Director Yong Mun Chee’s debut film Where The Road Meets The Sun, have been awarded the Best Ensemble Acting at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Special Jury Award for Outstanding Cinematography was also awarded to Director of Photography, Gavin Kelly. The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is a showcase for the best and brightest of Asian Pacific cinema. Since 1983, the Film Festival has presented over 3400 films and videos by Asian international and Asian American artists, and additionally features seminars and panels, in-person guest appearances, and filmmaker awards.
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This is another feather in Director Yong Mun Chee’s cap, having already collected the awards for Best Director, Special Jury and Best Supporting Actor for Will Yun Lee at the Houston International Film and Video Festival in April this year.
Coming up, Director Yong Mun Chee and her cast will grace the Singapore Premiere during the inaugural ScreenSingapore in June 2011.
[Synopsis] Where the Road Meets the Sun is a movie about four men whose lives intersect for a brief time in the city of Los Angeles. Takashi, a Japanese hit man, wakes up from a four-year coma and moves to LA to escape mysterious traumatic memories. He strikes an unusual friendship with Blake, the hotel manager who still mourns the loss of his wife to an affair he ended up regretting. Julio, an illegal immigrant, works at an Indian restaurant to provide for his wife and kid back in Mexico. He befriends Guy, a young British backpacker who lives off his estranged father's ATM card and sleeps with any girl who crosses his path. The film intercuts between the blossoming of these two friendships. Takashi attempts to help Blake break from his past, but in the process is forced to confront his own violent memories. Julio and Guy hustle for day-to-day survival and forge dreams of a better future, but after Julio steals Guy's passport and sells it, not only is their friendship at stake but also their lives. What follows are the wild times and often gut-wrenching adventures of four men trying to survive both emotionally and physically.
[Official Movie Trailer]
Written and directed by Yong Mun Chee and produced by Big Machine Films, with funding from the Singapore Film Commission’s New Feature Film Fund, the film stars Eric Mabius (Ugly Betty), Will Yun Lee (Hawaii Five-0; The King of Fighters), Luke Brandon Field and Fernando Noriega.
Golden Village Pictures is proud to be the Singapore distributor for Where the Road Meets the Sun. The release date is yet to be confirmed at press time.