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Timothy Linh Bui’s Vietnamese Vampire Thriller ‘Daydreamers’, Starring Chi Pu, Getting U.S. Release


Set 400 years ago, as European vampires faced extinction, they fled to Vietnam bringing with them a dark curse.

Cast includes Vietnamese superstar Chi Pu, the singer and actress with more than 20 million followers who became a local sensation after her performance in the hit Chinese reality series Sisters Who Make Waves. Vietnamese-born American filmmaker Timothy Linh Bui produced The Housemaid in 2016 which was released by IFC Films and distributed in 25 countries, and has a remake in the works written by Oscar winner Geoffery Fletcher. He and his brother Tony previously made Three Seasons which won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at Sundance, and Patrick Swayze film Green Dragon, winner of the Humanitas Prize.

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