Sam Voutas is an Australian screenwriter and director. His newest feature film,“Yesterday Island”, world premiered at the 2025 Warsaw Film Festival and will release in cinemas across Australia this December. His second feature, "King of Peking", world premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to play the BFI London, Melbourne, and Stockholm international film festivals. That film was released worldwide by Netflix in 2018, receiving positive reviews in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Los Angeles Times. His 2010 feature film, "Red Light Revolution", was included on the British Film Institute's list of "10 Great Films Set in Beijing". That film won the People's Choice Award at the 2011 Singapore International Film Festival, where it was the opening film.
