Berlin-based sales outfit Picture Tree International (PTI) has picked up international rights to director Bradley Liew’s genre-bending horror film Motel Acacia, reports ScreenDaily who adds that XYZ is co-repping the film for North America.
Motel Acacia is about a young man being groomed to take over the family business – a motel in the Filipino wilderness that seemingly provides shelter to illegal immigrants on behalf of the government.
Now in post, Belgian actor Jan Bijvoet stars with the Philippine’s JC Santos.
The film marks Liew’s second feature after Singing in the Graveyards, which premiered in Critics Week at Venice in 2016.
Motel Acacia is a co-production between Bianca Balbuena and Bradley Liew’s Philippines-based company Epicmedia ,Jeremy Chua’s Singapore- based Potocol with Sloveni’s Studio Virc and Croatia’s Nukleus Films.