Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

With or Without You

CHOU She-Wei 2008 Taiwan Fiction color 33min Mandarin, Taiwanese Digi Beta
After her mother died, the youngest daughter has been dreaming about her dead mother for nights. In the dreams, her mother expresses her will not to be buried next to her dead husband. On the seventh night after the mother’s death, the hidden past of the family was finally revealed.

Director

CHOU She-Wei

A Taiwanese screenwriter and director, born in 1960, graduated from the Department of history at National Taiwan University and Film/TV graduate department at NYU. She worked on several feature film productions, including Ang LEE’s Pushing Hand as assistant director. Her work With or Without You was selected in the Rotterdam IFF and won the first prize of Asian Shorts Competition in the SIWFF. Her first feature The Golden Child was nominated for Best Feature in the 2012 Taipei IFF.

Director's Statement ▾

CHOU She-Wei

1988 《高飛》 Of East and West

1999 《指揮台上的女皇》 The Queen on the Baton

2000 《國家大事》 One promise

2001 在光影中漫舞》 Dancing in the Light

2008 《家好月圓》 With or Without You

2012 《金孫》 The Golden Child

Director/周旭薇She-Wei CHOU

Producer/周旭薇She-Wei CHOU

Screenplay/周旭薇She-Wei CHOU、李義澤Yi-Ze LI、施芳婷Fang-Ting SHIH

Cinematographer/彭家如Jia-Ru PENG

Art Director/賴宣吾Sara LAI

Actor/黃采儀Alice HUANG、林子洋Lawrence LIN

Editor/Kulong

Music/王繼三Wayne WANG

Production & Sales Company:

周旭薇She-Wei CHOU sheweichou@hotmail.com