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Something Blue
在好久好久以前
SONG Jinsui
- 14 min
- 2024
- Fiction
- Cantonese, English
- English and Chinese Subtitles
Canadian Premiere
The 33rd Florida Film Festival — Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short
12:00 PM, SAT, AUG 10
Innis Town Hall
Screening with · DIANA (15 mins), Manting (15 mins), Tanjong Rhu (The Casuarina Cove) (19 mins), To Write from Memory (18 mins), Baby Gay (9 mins)
12:00 PM, SAT, AUG 10
Innis Town Hall
Screening with
DIANA (15 mins), Manting (15 mins), Tanjong Rhu (The Casuarina Cove) (19 mins), To Write from Memory (18 mins), Baby Gay (9 mins)
Emily returns home to attend her cousin’s wedding. In this jovial setting, she struggles to confront the source of her past trauma.
Director
SONG Jinsui is a Chinese filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured on AMC+ and screened at the Cairo International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, and CAAMFest, among others. Her short film Tequila Sunset (2022) was selected for the Fountainhead programme at our fourth edition and won the Award Award. Her latest film, Something Blue, supported by the Panavision New Filmmaker Program, won the Grand Jury Award at the Florida Film Festival. Growing up in Shenzhen, a metropolis in Southeastern China, she struggled between traditional Cantonese values and modern aspirations. She endeavours to create films about women, in particular Chinese women, and the many facets of their womanhood.
Credits
- DirectorSONG Jinsui
- Principal CastValerie YU
- ProducerSHEN Wei, SONG Jinsui
- ScreenplaySONG Jinsui
- CinematographerJacqueline CHAN
- Production DesignerJustine LAW
- Costume DesignerLI Ruoxuan
- EditorSONG Jinsui
- SoundSam FAN Weirui
- MusicJasmine GUO Moni