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The Remarriage
Production Country (s) UK, China Production Company (s) Sun Films
Genre Drama, Family, Comedy Production Spec 4K / Color / 90min
Production Stage
(or Project Status)		 In Development Expected Date of Completion September 2020
Total Budget
(Negative Cost)		 1,500,000 USD Confirmed Financing Total (250,000) USD
production house investment
equity investor
Fellow Name DENG Cilin
Director SUN Yixi Email of Director yixi@sunfilms.co.uk
Profile of the Director Writer-director Sun Yixi gained BA in Film and Television Production at the Communication University of China and MA in Documentary by Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London. Upon graduation, she worked as a producer and editor for five years at WildAid London, where she made over 20 episodes of documentaries and public service advertisements, then spent several years as a theatre producer. In 2017, she completed her debut feature, Susu, a psychological thriller about two Chinese girls’ haunted house experience in an English countryside mansion. Working with Deng Cilin, her upcoming projects, The Remarriage and the romantic thriller Hanging Island, are in development.
Producer (s) DENG Cilin Email of Producer (s) cilin@sunfilms.co.uk
Profile of the Producer (s) Born and brought up in China, Deng Cilin gained his BA in Liberal Arts with a major in Film Studies from King’s College London. He became involved in producing since 2014 with director Sun Yixi’s feature film Susu, a UK-China co-produced psychological thriller. The film has met audiences through various film festivals worldwide and has been sold to several territories internationally. He produced two Columbia University MFA thesis films, The Wind Flower and Greenhouse, in the US and China. In addition to his work in producing, he has been involved in programming for film festivals.
Logline Two wealthy old Chinese expats decide to get married, but members from the two families clash over the issue of inheritance and turn the wedding banquet into a hysterical domestic war-zone.
Synopsis London. Affluent Chinese gentleman Mr. Zhang (72) decides to marry a recently divorced lady Ms. Zhu (59). They hire young graduate Ma-nan (23) to film their wedding. Ma-nan has an ambition to make the wedding video a romantic documentary that reflects today’s wealthy Chinese in the international arena.

At the wedding banquet, however, the guests from the two families clash. The conflict centers on whether Ms. Zhu and her three Eurasian daughters from her previous marriage are going to steal Mr. Zhang’s house, money, and inheritance from his children. But rumor also has it that Mr. Zhang’s daughter and two sons care much more about the family inheritance than the father himself, so they object to this marriage and consequently cancelled the church ceremony, just holding a banquet.

The disagreeable wedding banquet quickly escalates into a domestic war-zone. It literally turns into a theatre stage: while people have to perform their roles as daughters, sons, husbands and wives, they inevitably reveal their true desire, hatred, nosiness, and judgments in the tit-for-tat conversation. All absurdity of these people has nowhere to escape or hide thanks to the lens of Ma-nan, but Mr. Zhang does not seem to care about any of it.