PIERCE: Take A Stab At The Suspenseful Teaser For Nelicia Low’s New Thriller
Singaporean director Nelicia Low has come along way. A fencing athlete for five years before turning toward filmmaking, her feature debut now arrives with Taiwanese fencing thriller Pierce, starring Liu Hsiu-Fu, Tsao Yu-Ning, Ning Ding, and Rosen Mu.
When his beloved but dangerous older brother is released from prison, high school fencer Zi-Jie (Liu) believes he is innocent and goes behind their mother’s back to help him, only to realize the brother he has idealized might only be a fantasy.
The film is produced by Patrick Mao Huang and Evril Kuo of Flash Forward Entertainment, and Jeremy Chua and Sam Chua Weishi of Pōtocol, and John M. Lo. Magnolia’s sales single Magnify is taking the film to the Cannes market to rep global and U.S. sales.
“We are thrilled to be working on Nelicia’s captivating, undeniably haunting debut,” said Magnify’s senior vice present of sales, Lorna Lee Torres, who will launch “Pierce” in Cannes alongside director of global sales Austin Kennedy. “Her impeccable direction is heightened by an exceptional creative team and cast performances in service of a brilliant slow burn thriller.”
Catch the teaser below, and read more at Variety where the teaser broke on Wednesday.
Lead image: Pōtocol
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