Formosa Betrayed

US thriller - Won best film at the San Diego Film Festival

Formosa betrayed shot one week in Chicago and the rest in Bangkok with the Living Films’ team. We shot Bangkok to double as Taipei 1983.

The story is about an FBI Agent who is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected American professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. His investigation takes him across the Pacific to the island nation of Taiwan, where with the help of the outspoken widow and an unlikely spy, he learns that the Professor's killing was not a random act, but a desperate move by a scandalous government intent on keeping its nefarious activities under wraps. Our detective soon finds himself on a collision course against the U.S. State Department, the Chinese Mafia, and the Nationalist Chinese Government - in a land where the truth is not what it seems and the only people he can trust, cannot be trusted at all.

The film is inspired by actual events and has garnered a huge amount of attention from the US Taiwanese communities. Casting in Bangkok included many Thai’s of Chinese decent and many of the shooting locations took advantage of Thailand’s Chinese influenced past.

Formosa Betrayed is currently in post production and is set to be released in 2009.