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    Miss you from the Orange County

    Amy Wen 2008 Taiwan Documentary color 3min Chinese, Hakka Beta
    This is a record of me living in the US for a month preparing a TV documentary. Although that’s a peaceful life with proper daily routine, exercise, walk, swing, bike, library and a relaxed me, I was homesick in this environment where Mandarin can only be heard in dreams. Therefore, I try to do this experiment of mixing different thoughts and psychologies by editing home videos of different family members together in 4 quadrants split screens. This film is only 3 minutes, but its footages cross 10 years. After editing it, I found that making 4 quadrants split screens film and shooting myself and the relationship between my family and me are very difficult. Maybe this is the reflection of my homesickness—hard to explain and clarify.

    Director

    Amy Wen

    Amy Wen, a freelancer who has worked 10 years for documentary filmmaking in the independent film production. She not only makes films but also TV programs and documentaries for foundations and organizations. Her films consider from the development of community to health and medical treatment. Most of them, such as “Womb Arena”, “Up, Stand up! A Tale of Citizen Initiative in Two communities”, and "Morinig! Stories of Breast Cancer Patients in Taiwan”, express her care of the society and local community, which makes them popular in relevant organizations or schools as the material for discussion. Since 2006, Amy has started to write and make feature films. Although her first feature film, “The Way We Write”, was only shown few times in Taiwan, it were invited by many international film festivals, which contributes to her new role— the judge of short films in 2007 Women’s Film Festival in Seoul. In the future, Amy Wen would like to expand her vision from the locals to the world and history.

    Amy Wen

    2008 Miss you from the orange county

    2006 The Way We Write

    2005 Comaus & Cactus

    2003 Stronger, You? - Stories of schizophrenia

    2001 Moming Madam! Stories of Breast Cancer Sunivors.....

    2000 Up, Stand up ! A Tale of Citizen Initiative in Two communities.

    1999 Womb Arena

     
     

    Producer: Amy Wen

    Director: Amy Wen

    Screenplay: Amy Wen

    Cinematographer: Amy Wen

    Editor: Amy Wen

    Sound: Amy Wen

    Music: Amy Wen

    Cast: Wen's family

    Language: Chinese, Hakka

    Mobile: +886 939 291 766

    Email: amywen@hotmail.com

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