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    Yuning's Return

    Shu-Chun Lee 2004 Taiwan Documentary color 45min DV
    A broken heart, a dysfunctional family, a bittersweet journey. Yunings Return chronicles the life of a female migrant worker as she struggles to support her disintegrating family. Yuning, a 26-year-old Indonesian woman with an unemployed husband and a five-year-old son, was determined to give her family a better life when she went to Taiwan two years earlier. She worked as a domestic worker in Taipei and sent all her money back home. The hard work and her determination to succeed, however, did not promise a brighter future. Responding to the family's urge for her to go home, Yuning ends her contract three months earlier, and returns Indonesia, where heartbreaking truths wait ahead in her family. In following the heroine's personal adventure, the film highlights the feminization of labor migration in Asia and explores the potential dilemmas faced by those female laborers and their families behind this ongoing trend.

    Director

    Shu-Chun Lee

    Shu-Chun Lee just finished her study in film and video production in UT at Austin and came back to work as a freelance filmmaker in Taiwan.

    Shu-Chun Lee

    2003 《印尼女傭尤尼希》 Yuning's Return

    2000  Aliman and Lawuyn

    1998-99 公視水資源紀錄片系列《我家門前有小河》、《留不住的水與土》、《待河清之日》編導Three programs about Taiwan's water issues

     

    Producer/Director/ 李淑君Shu-Chun Lee

    Associate Producer/ 劉季平Berg Liu

    Camera/Editor/ 李淑君Shu-Chun Lee 

    Email: shuchun1001@hotmail.com

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