Following a highly successful, award-winning festival run, the taut and evocative, sci-fi mystery/suspense film Silent River will enjoy a one-week theatrical run beginning Oct. 14 at Laemmle Glendale and will then be available on VOD starting Oct. 25, distributed by Gravitas Ventures.
With a surreal filmmaking style inspired by the neo-noir work of David Lynch, Silent River—starring West Liang (FBI: Most Wanted, Atypical, Rebel) and Amy Tsang (Love Shot, Kung Fu)—is the third feature film release from writer/director Chris Chan Lee, who made his directorial debut in 1997 with the award-winning, critically acclaimed film, Yellow, a coming-of-age drama/comedy about a group of Asian-American teens in Los Angeles. Yellow featured the theatrical film acting debuts of John Cho (the Star Trek and Harold & Kumar film franchises) and Jason Tobin (Warrior, Jasmine, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift). Lee followed with producing the thriller, Jasmine, which won 100 awards in international film festival competitions.
Lee was one of the “Class of 1997”—as noted in the book Rise: A Pop History of Asian Americans from the Nineties to Now (pages 150-151)—when the film industry lauded six Asian filmmakers who were bringing the same game-changing talent and momentum to indie film that had previously announced the bomb-dropping “arrival” of noted Black filmmakers like Spike Lee and queer filmmakers like Todd Haynes, followed by others riding the wave of their successes.
In Silent River, Elliot (Liang) is desperate to reconcile with his estranged wife, Julie (Tsang). At a loss for his next move, he falls into a downward spiral and, when he encounters the sultry Greta (Tsang in a dual role)—an uncanny woman on the run from a mysterious past—strange and mysterious occurrences begin to haunt him.
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