Marcus Hu worked in sales and distribution for Orion Pictures, Vestron Pictures, and New World. Co-founder and president of "Strand Releasing" with Jon Gerrans, which since 1989 has been a leader in distributing gay and lesbian independent films
Strand has released such art-house hits as Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt, André Téchiné's Wild Reeds, Nigel Finch's Stonewall, the Academy Award nominee Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, and the first features of such renowned filmmakers as Alison Maclean, Gregg Araki, Matthew Harrison, Lodge Kerrigan, Kelly Reichardt, and Cindy Sherman. Strand also released the critically acclaimed Love Is The Devil, starring Derek Jacobi as the artist Francis Bacon.
Strand Releasing was honored with a ten-year retrospective at the prestigious Museum of Modern Art in New York in June 1999, and a recent three-month tribute at the Sunset 5 in Los Angeles.
Hu has served as a producer on Dennis Cooper's Frisk and Gregg Araki's The Living End, and as an executive producer on Richard Glatzer's Grief, Bruce LaBruce's Hustler White, and Lane Janger's Just One Time, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
He was also an associate producer on Tommy O'Haver's Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, and co-producer on Robert King's Psycho Beach Party, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2000 and is set to open this fall.
Hu is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and serves on both the board of the Sundance Film Festival's National Advisory Committee, IFP West Board and the Los Angeles Outfest (1998).
His lover is Ross Nakasone.
