Vietnam-based sales agent Skyline Media is bringing the psychological thriller “Sister Sister” to Apple TV across 36 international territories starting March 8, timed to coincide with International Women’s Day. The move represents the broadest release of a Vietnamese title on the platform in some 10 years.
The rollout covers markets across North America, Europe and Oceania. Within the Americas, the film can be available within the U.S., Canada, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Trinidad and Tobago. European markets include Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Grenada, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and the U.K. In Oceania, the title will reach Australia, Fiji and Micronesia – with Australia the one territory where it had previously been available on the platform.
The launch also signals the beginning of a wider arrangement between Skyline Media and Apple TV, with further titles from the corporate’s catalogue expected to follow. It extends Skyline’s track record of placing Vietnamese content on major global platforms, having previously secured deals for Vietnamese movies on Netflix in Vietnam, across Asia and in worldwide markets.
Directed by Vietnamese-American filmmaker Kathy Uyen in her debut feature, “Sister Sister” stars supermodel-actress Thanh Hang (“Go-Go Sisters”), Vietnamese pop icon Chi Pu (“Muoi: The Curse Returns”) and actor Lanh Thanh (“Goodbye Mother”). The story centers on a star radio presenter who shelters a girl she saves from a violent attack, only to search out herself drawn right into a tense contest of psychological control and shifting allegiances between the 2.
Produced by Muse Movies, the title ranked because the second highest-grossing Vietnamese thriller of 2019, taking in $2.7 million on the Vietnamese box office. It screened on the twenty fifth Busan International Film Festival and claimed the ABC TV Award on the 2021 Osaka Asian Film Festival. A follow-up released in 2023 earned greater than $4.6 million domestically, extending the property right into a franchise.
Skyline Media represents greater than 150 Vietnamese and Southeast Asian titles and distributes content across greater than 50 countries through upward of 130 partnerships worldwide.