Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Pan Zhog

CHEN Hsin-Wei 2015 Taiwan Fiction color 33min Hakka, Chinese DCP
Pan Zhog means out door banquet in Hakka, it is the period mark for every death, wedding or celebration in town. Blurring the line of fiction and non-fiction, Pan Zhog is a sentimental short film about saying goodbye. Mori-so and Gim were neighbors, friends, and partners of Pan Zhog catering banquets for decades. One day Mori-so got a mid-night phone call about her best friend's death. The end of life suddenly approached so near. Mori-so decides to cater a supper for Gim and her families to say goodbye in the way Mori-so and Gim both familiar with.

Director

CHEN Hsin-Wei

CHEN Hsin-Wei was born in 1984 as a native Hakka from Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. She presently works as a content maker for internet users. Setting communication as the highest priority, she worked cross-borderly with graphics, video and motion graphics as medium, transforming complicated information into understandable contents for everyone.

Director's Statement ▾

CHEN Hsin-Wei
  • 2015 《辦桌》Pan Zhog
  • 2009 Home, Sweet Home
  • 2008 《硬殼日記》Solid Minds
  • 2008 Meta Vision
  • 2008 Manifest

Director:陳欣緯
Producer:趙珮安
Screenplay:陳欣緯
Cinematographer:黃燕燕
Editor:陳欣緯
Sound:楊淞婷、顏晟文
Music:楊政諺
Actor:楊燕娥、范竹華、范直生

陳欣緯CHEN Hsin-Wei
weispa@gmail.com