Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Mirage

YANG Mei-Wen 2006 Taiwan Fiction color 30min 16mm
Bachelorette Céline, deliberately develops the habit of copying somebody's lifestyle. She tires herself going about insignificant routines in order to create a “good” impression upon her family and friends. Among her colleagues, she makes them believe she has a rich foreign boyfriend. Every day after work, Céline would linger around the chic area until midnight. Come Christmas Eve, family and friends believe that Céline is dating her foreign boyfriend at the plush “Crystal Glass Diner”. Only Céline herself knows this is not the case. Will Céline's dream come true at the magic Christmas Eve?

Director

YANG Mei-Wen

Majoring in “English and French literature”, has great enthusiasm in the art of cinematography. When she worked at the motion picture distribution company as a secretary, she was busy arranging her boss' schedules every day from which comes the story of Mirage. Afterward, she participates in several local low-budget productions as an assistant director. Now she works at a creature-effect company as a producer.