Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Amy In The Cafe

Maxine Lu 2000 Taiwan/America feature b/w 26min Chinese 16mm
Amy in the cafe unfolds a relationship backwards... In a quiet afternoon, Amy walks into a cafe to say goodbye to her past. She has brief encounters with two other women who also share the same name. Amy 2 goes to the cafe to meet her love one, while Amy 3 is about to begin her own chapter. They witness each others stories, without realizing the mystical connections between themselves. Is this the end? Or just the beginning...

Director

Maxine Lu

Maxine Lu, born in Taiwan. She has been active in the fringe theater scene as an actor and director before pursuing film making. She has worked professionally as a commercial film editor, and has directed several short super 8 films. Received her MFA in Media Arts Production at the City College of New York in 2000, she now works as an independent filmmaker. Her thesis project Amy in the Cafe is her first 16mm color sync-sound film.