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.

Schedule

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