What if I Never Wake Up Again?
Program:
International Competition
Year:
2023
Country:
USA
Genre:
Fiction
Duration:
14’
A 9-year-old city boy is afraid of death and stays awake at all costs. After he goes on vacation with his mother to visit his grandfather's ranch, they discover that his grandfather is actually the one who has been preparing to die.
Yiqing Hu
25-year-old Asian female filmmaker based in Los Angeles and Beijing. She spent her early childhood in a small village in China and then grew up in Beijing. She started to learn writing, painting, and music at a very young age. She believes film is the best combined art form to tell a story. She is now a freelance director and working on multiple film and animation projects in China.
Filmography: Candy House (2022), What if I Never Wake Up Again (2023)
Creative team
Director
Yiqing Hu
Screenplay
Yiqing Hu
Camera
Zhongchao Liu
Editing
Youyin Zhang
Production design
Isabela Campillo Valencia
Music
Julia Fu Tsz Yan
Sound Design
You Zhou
Producer
Jiaxin Qi, Xingyi Jiang
Production
Chapman University
Cast
Guy Heilweil, Andrea Flowers, Dennis Gersten
Offline film schedule
27.10 |
20:00
Zhovten Cinema | Hegemon
28.10 |
15:30
Zhovten Cinema | Anschlag