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Gravitas Ventures is set to release festival fave horror Repossession on digital December 1st. Check Out this Trailer:

From directors Goh Ming Siu and Scott C.Hillyard, the provocative horror-thriller fixes on 50-year-old Jim who has constructed a perfect life in the world’s most expensive city. When he is unexpectedly laid off, he desperately clings onto the symbols of his success, while wrestling with resurfacing demons from his past.

In the tradition of Get Out and Parasite, and starring Gerald Chew, Amy J Cheng, Sivakumar Palakrishnan, Rachel Wan and Matthew Loo, Repossession has as much to say as it does scares!

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Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired U.S. rights to Kyle Thomas’ drama Range Roads, along with North American rights to Dylan Reid’s semi-autobiographical film, By the Grace of…The digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios will release the former title written and directed by Thomas across internet, cable and satellite platforms on December 14, unveiling the latter written and directed by Reid across the same range of platforms on December 21.

Range Roads tells the story of Frankie King (Alana Hawley Purvis), a television actor who has been estranged from her family for 20 years, returning to her hometown in rural Canada after her parents are killed in a sudden car accident. As she struggles to reconnect with her truculent brother Grayson (Joe Perry), old wounds are reopened and family secrets uncovered. Thomas and Sara Corry produced the pic, which also stars Chad Brownlee and Nicole de Boer.

Instead of simply writing our wishes to all our readers, for 2021 we decided to ask our friends to do so.

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“Repossession“, co-director/writers Goh Ming Siu and Scott C. Hillyard’s subtle, topical story of one man’s inexorable psychological collapse at the hands of market forces, will screen at six film festivals during the close of this Northern Hemisphere summer into fall, commencing with its Southern California premiere at the prestigious Dances With Films festival, unspooling August 28 and 31 online in Los Angeles, and concluding (for now) its Fall festival run October 23 at the Chicago Southland International Film Festival.

While the film sits astride psychotronic genres, its real horror, according to Singapore’s Sinema News, “…ironically – mainly comes in the form of the societal realities of cut-throat Singapore.” On this Covid-19 tainted planet, “Repossession”‘s characters’ surprisingly swift downward journeys could mirror that of many others’ worldwide.

In “Repossession,” 50-year-old Jim loses his high-flying job in status-conscious Singapore, but his ego and pride compel him to hide this from his wife and daughter.

Goh Ming-siu is a graduate of Northwestern Universityʼs School of Communications in Illinois, a director and television screenwriter working in Singapore, the author of over 100 episodes of TV series. “Repossession” is his feature-length debut.

Scott Chong Hillyard graduated from Nanyang Polytechnicʼs School of Business Management in Singapore. An actor performing on stage, in TV series, music shows and movies since the age of nine. The co-director and producer of “Repossession”.

Gerald Chew is an experienced actor with many theatrical roles to his credit, also known for his numerous TV series and films. He also worked as a theatre director and screenwriter.

On the occasion of their film “Repossession” screening at Five Flavours, we speak with them losing your job in your 50’s, the endless pursue for money, being identified by your work, Singapore, and many other topics.

The movie begins with the layoff of the protagonist, a man in his 50s.

Goh Ming Siu is a seasoned TV writer and director with dozens of credits to his name in his own country of Singapore. “Repossession”, a film whose ambiguity in the title is its finest asset, is his feature debut. The film premiered at Cinequest Film Festival and we were able to catch it at Five Flavours Film Festival.

“Repossession” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival:

When we meet our protagonist, the middle-aged executive Jim, one might argue that his life is about to fall into a downward spiral. After decades of career, he is being fired from work. Or, more precisely, asked to leave because it would look better in his resume. Jim, however, is used to a bourgeois life style (hence his apartment and car) and is too much of an ego-maniac to come clean to his wife Linda (Amy Cheng of “Crazy Rich Asians” fame), his daughter and his friends,...

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