Project Detail

Green Thoughts

Name: Green Thoughts
Director: William Hong-xiao Wei
Genre: Experimental, Scottish
Released: 2020
Duration: 27 min 53 sec

William Hong-xiao Wei

Synopsis

Somewhere in the world there is a remote island. In a lodge by the sea, a Chinese writer immersing herself in reading and writing encounters a Japanese girl who is in a melancholic mood. What has happened and what the two girls are feeling, imagining or remembering starts to overlap.

Details

Year: 2020
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 27 min 53 sec
Format: Cellular Phone; 35mm
Director: William Hong-xiao Wei
Producer: William Hong-xiao Wei
Editor: William Hong-xiao Wei
Screenwriter: William Hong-xiao Wei
Director of Photography: William Hong-xiao Wei
Sound: Marianna Brown, Ting-An Lin, Andres Vasco
Composer: Terry Peng, Alan Špiljak
Principal cast: Enyi Cheng, Eileen Zhao

Genre

Experimental Scottish

Production Status

Complete

Sales Company

s1681746@ed.ac.uk

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