Sam Voutas

Writing

Sam Voutas

Place of birth

Canberra, Australia

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

Sam Voutas is an Australian actor and independent filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing Red Light Revolution, China's "first sex shop comedy" which was nominated for Best Unproduced Screenplay at the 2008 Australian Inside Film Awards, showcased at The Santa Barbara International Film Festival and won the audience award at The Terracotta Far East Film Festival. Voutas played Durdin in Lu Chuan's acclaimed[3] City of Life and Death, a Chinese film about The Rape of Nanjing. The film won Best Director (Lu Chuan) and Best Cinematographer (Cao Yu) Awards at the 4th Asian Film Awards in 2010. Voutas wrote and directed the documentary The Last Breadbox, featuring Beijing taxi drive…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

King of Peking poster
6.1

When home entertainment enters the market in 90s Beijing, a former projectionist ropes his young son into starting their own pirate movie company, but easy money comes with its own price tag.

King of Peking

2017

King of Peking poster
6.1

When home entertainment enters the market in 90s Beijing, a former projectionist ropes his young son into starting their own pirate movie company, but easy money comes with its own price tag.

King of Peking

2017

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NR

A jornalist exposes a man's strange reality as a crash test dummy.

Crash Test

1999

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NR

A jornalist exposes a man's strange reality as a crash test dummy.

Crash Test

1999

Crash Test poster
5.2

A writer is kidnapped and surgically transformed into a human crash test dummy.

Crash Test

2003

Crash Test poster
5.2

A writer is kidnapped and surgically transformed into a human crash test dummy.

Crash Test

2003

Red Light Revolution poster
4.8

A luckless Beijinger opens an adult shop to make ends meet, sparking a sexual revolution in his conservative neighborhood.

Red Light Revolution

2010

Red Light Revolution poster
4.8

A luckless Beijinger opens an adult shop to make ends meet, sparking a sexual revolution in his conservative neighborhood.

Red Light Revolution

2010

Watch Me poster
6.0

Tess Hooper is a diligent and earnest cinema studies student, haunted by a shameful incident from her past. One by one Tess's friends end up brutally murdered after opening the "Watch Me" email, a file that spreads through electronic address books to seek its next victim. All murders bear the same traits: a red-headed woman in a yellow dress, an internet connection, the victims' eyes sewn shut. As Tess becomes the next target in line, she finds herself seeking answers from Taku, an illegal film dealer with the unsavory nickname of "freak boy" and the moral integrity of a rattlesnake. But showing up voluntarily at Taku's lair, Tess finds herself in even more danger than when she was on her own. If the two can survive each other, they may just be able to live through this deadly email. As the clock ticks and the body count mounts, the two must untangle the puzzle to stop "Watch Me" from its poisonous rampage.

Watch Me

2006

Yesterday Island poster
NR

When failed novelist Amos agrees to mind his friend's research station on a remote island for just one day, he expects solitude and a chance to break his writer's block. But when his friend fails to return, Amos discovers he has been deliberately trapped in a bizarre time loop. In a desperate attempt to escape "yesterday", Amos coaxes his ex-wife onto the island, but instead strands them both there. To ensure their own freedom, the two must scheme to invite their most dislikeable friends to the island, with unforeseen and messy consequences. A quirky dark comedy about second chances, petty revenge, and the ultimate importance of forgiveness.

Yesterday Island

2026

Yesterday Island poster
NR

When failed novelist Amos agrees to mind his friend's research station on a remote island for just one day, he expects solitude and a chance to break his writer's block. But when his friend fails to return, Amos discovers he has been deliberately trapped in a bizarre time loop. In a desperate attempt to escape "yesterday", Amos coaxes his ex-wife onto the island, but instead strands them both there. To ensure their own freedom, the two must scheme to invite their most dislikeable friends to the island, with unforeseen and messy consequences. A quirky dark comedy about second chances, petty revenge, and the ultimate importance of forgiveness.

Yesterday Island

2026