Kindred Spirit’s Anita Gou Talks Cannes Title ‘Locust’, Reimagining Ang Lee’s Classic ‘The Wedding Banquet’ & Why Company Invested In ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’ Theatre Production With Sarah Snook
deadline.comAnita Gou is no stranger to the festival circuit. Her L.A.-based Kindred Spirit banner saw a raft of its first projects debut at Sundance (think Lulu Wang’s Mandarin-language comedy The Farewell, which made $23M worldwide, Shia LaBeouf-starrer Honey Boy and Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation) but, more recently, her co-production Silent Twins was selected in Un Certain Regard in 2022, while Dominic Savage’s Close To You premiered in Toronto last year.
The company’s Mubi-acquired doc The Last Year of Darkness, which explores the lives of alternative Chinese youth, was awarded a Special Mention prize in the Next:Wave section at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival last year.
This year, the producer, who has roots in Taiwan, was back in Cannes with Locust, the debut feature from Taiwanese-American filmmaker KEFF, which played in Cannes Critics’ Week.
The project is set during the 2019 Hong Kong protests and follows Zhong-Han, a silent twenty-something in Taiwan who leads a double life.
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