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The Cruel Hunt
Production Country (s) Vietnam Production Company (s) June Entertainment
Genre Psychological Thriller Production Spec 4K / Color / 110min
Production Stage
(or Project Status)		 Script Development Expected Date of Completion Late 2021
Total Budget
(Negative Cost)		 440,000 USD Confirmed Financing 140,000 USD
(Production house investment)
Fellow Name NGUYEN Huu-Tuan
Director NGUYEN Huu-Tuan Email of Director huutuanfd@gmail.com
Profile of the Director Born in 1984, film director Nguyen Huu-Tuan is a member of Vietnam Cinema Association. Nguyen is the first filmmaker in his 80s generation to release a feature film, Of Us And June (2012). This high school basketball movie was a rare indie film back then. It was praised by critics and awarded Jury Prize at 18th Viet Nam Film Festival in 2013. His second film, My Sun, Where Are You, is a family movie that was released in December 2018.
Producer (s) PHAN Gia Nhat Linh Email of Producer (s) phanxine@gmail.com
Profile of the Producer (s) Phan started his film-related career as a journalist in 1997 and then studied film directing and producing in USC from 2007 to 2010. His first feature film, Sweet 20 (2015), produced by CJ E&M Vietnam and HK Films, became the highest grossing Vietnamese film at the time. His second feature film, The Girl From Yesterday also reached over a million admissions, becoming the second highest box office Vietnamese film in 2017.
Logline A desperate video reporter uses a young live streamer to hunt for her next big story. As strange, haunting dreams emerge and deteriorate her mentality, little does she know that her past sins are now crawling back and seeking revenge.
Synopsis AN (30) is a video reporter whose job is to hunt viral videos for a tabloid website. Unable to compete with younger colleagues, her career is threatened. Furthermore, she is unaware that she is actually an amnesiac who has lost a crucial but dark part of her memories.

After her brother commits suicide, An becomes haunted by strange, recurring dreams which stress her out. In her brother’s funeral, An meets a psychiatrist who offers help on her mental issues. The psychiatrist introduces her to MÂY (22), a gorgeous singer and live-streamer. He tells An that Mây is forced to be a high-class prostitute by her manager. Knowing so, An initiates a plan in which she teams up with Mây to uproot the manager’s illegal business. The evidential videos that come out will save her endangered career.

However, the closer she gets to Mây, the more mentally unstable she becomes. An feels uneasy when Mây shows her affections toward An’s love interest. Moreover, as memories of her forgotten past gradually reconstruct, her mentality also rapidly deteriorates. When their first attempt to achieve the video fails, An begins to resent Mây. Out of frustration and jealousy, An sets up a new plan in which Mây will be drugged and raped.

In a shocking twist, however, the innocent Mây turns out to be an avenger who seeks for judgment on An’s grave mistake in the past. Before her fate is judged in a cruel manner and live-streamed for the whole nation to see, An has to remember how unforgivable she was, and she sincerely proves that she is still worthy to be redeemed.