king of peking is sam voutas' first film to premiere the tribeca film festival.success, he hopes the exposure from this film festival will bring a larger audience beyond those who only saw his last film on bootleg. while making a movie about the bootlegging industry in china is clever and a bit tongue in cheek, for the producer of the film, it all comes back to one thing — a tale of a father and his son. it's a love letter, father to son, son to father, as well as a father to cinema and to his passions in life. the real heart of the film is about love. people whose lives are destabilised by products like house paint, perfume, even mobile phones. these are the individuals scrutinised in the tribeca documentary the sensitives, people who have what is termed multiple chemical sensitivity. the subjects of drew xanthopoulos' powerful new documentary, the sensitives, live day—to—day in a uniquely distressing predicament. they suffer from a new chronic disorder that the mainstream medical community largely recognises as real, but has not yet developed any treatment or m

according to voutas, the digital age phenomenally transformed cinema in china.et, in the 1990s, and vcds, different types of video discs, that these movies were able to enter the home, and be consumed by people who beforehand didn't have access to these type of stories. and voutas says an easy way to get your hands on a dvd copy of your favourite movie was from a bootlegger on the street. he got the idea for the story when one of his previous films, also set in china, was bootlegged in real life. it was sort of a spark that got me writing. so our previous film, within a week it was on the streets of beijing. and, rather than get angry, i was actually very impressed with the creativity that the bootleggers had. they had done their own artwork, they had done their own credits, really interesting stuff. so i realised that there was a creative element to the bootlegging, and that is how it started. it is more of a sort of... i guess you could say it is a celebration of the creativity of that — of that world. king of peking is sam voutas‘s first film to premiere at t