Fortissimo finds Lost

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Sales News

Fortissimo Films has picked up international sales rights on Toronto International Film Festival title Lost in Paradise Hotboy nổi loạn (2011). The film is Fortissimo's first from Vietnam.

Lost (sold in Cannes as Riot Hotboys: The Stories of the Whore, the Duck and Laugh) is directed by VŨ Ngọc Đãng and co-written by Vu and actor Luong Manh Hai.

The story depicts the intersection of the daily lives of a gay couple, a mentally disabled man, and a female prostitute and in doing so reveals the complexities and absurdities of life, love and relationships in world.

Toronto's catalogue describes the film as "perhaps the first film from Vietnam to depict homosexual love both explicitly and in a positive light..... Lost in Paradise conveys its characters' lives in a remarkable range of tones, from the humorous to the absurd to the tragic."

It was produced by former state-owned production and distribution company, Vietnam Media Corporation.

Vu previously directed Every Inch of Beauty (2009) and hit Long Legged Girls Nhung Co Gai Chan Dai (2004), which was funded by Galaxy Cinema and was one of the first commercial films to be produced in the country since the state ended its monopoly in 2002.

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