Red Light Revolution

“In 1993, a businessman named Wen Jingfeng opened China’s first adult sex shop in Beijing. Since then, sex shops have been opened across the country, as the foreign media interpreted as the major symbol of China’s reform”. (From early post: Sexual repression of the stay at home women in China’s rural areas)

The societal views towards sex in China have gone a long way since the old days. However there are still far more uncertainties and inconsistencies about sexuality in this country. Swingers were recently sentenced to prison for “group licentiousness”. Pornography is banned and illegal but a large population of people have them on their cell phones. Prostitution is illegal yet it is as common as barber shops on the streets, literally.  And It is almost socially accepted for wealthy and powerful men to keep multiple mistresses while many people in the lower social classes suffer from sexual repressions…

Introducing RED LIGHT REVOLUTION, finally a film that takes a humorous look at Chinese tradition and post 1949 dogmas colliding with modern sexual value.

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Nominated for Best Unproduced Screenplay at Australia’s 2008 Inside Film Awards, RED LIGHT REVOLUTION is the first feature film centered on China’s multitude of adult stores, and the everyday people who run them. RED LIGHT REVOLUTION follows a luckless Beijinger who risks it all to open a shop, sparking a sexual revolution in his conservative neighborhood.

The film stars Zhao Jun, Vivid Wang, Jiang Xiduo, Masanobu Otsuka ("City of Life and Death", "Tiananmen"), Tess Liu ("The Karate Kid"), Tian Huimin ("Mao’s Last Dancer"), and Ji Qing ("Gasp"). The film is written & directed by Sam Voutas (actor, "City of Life and Death", "Empires of the Deep"). Cinematography is by Wang Yifan.

RED LIGHT REVLUTION is directed by Australian director Sam Voutas and produced by Melanie Ansley. 

RED LIGHT REVOLUTION is now in post production and should be released in the next month or so.  Producer Melanie Ansley said,

Where can you see the film? We’re hoping everywhere.  But while our website is under construction we have a temporary home at Indiegogo,  and if people leave us a comment telling us they want to see the movie, we’ll definitely do our best to make sure it plays in their town.  We’re also on Twitter, Facebook, and Douban.com, anyone who’s interested to keep up to date is more than welcome to connect with us.

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