Director Sam Voutas talks about the making of the film and ‘90s Beijing A far cry from the high-rise, glass and steel structures that dominate the capital today, 1990’s Beijing was a dusty city full of low-rise hutong buildings. Street-food sellers hawked their snacks on street corners and entrepreneurial ‘businessmen’ would sell pirated VCDs (a precursor to DVDs) of the latest Hollywood blockbusters. Writer and director Sam Voutas’ new film …
