Mother in the Mist
2021 Narrative Short
20 min, Color
Director| Writer | Produce by Kay Niuyue Zhang
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Film Review: Indie Shorts Mag: Mother in the Mist: The Sting of Sorrow amidst disaster
The 27th Annual DGA Student Film Awards Best Women Student Filmmaker Grand Prize Award Winner
Award Winner Best Student Film 52th Annual USA Film Festival 2022 (Canadian Screen Award Qualifying)
Jury Award Winner American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at 75th Cannes Film Festival Village International
World Premiere: San Diego International Film Festival Official Selection 2021 (Canadian Screen Award Qualifying)
South East Premiere: SCAD Savannah Film Festival 2021
International Premiere: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2021 (FIAPF Accreditation)
The 58th Golden Horse Awards Live Action Short Film - Semi-Finalist (Academy Award Qualifying)
6th NEW ERA Film Festival (Beijing, China) - Official Selection
Mao International Film Week (Guangzhou, China) - Best director Award Winner
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival 2021 - Semi-Finalist (Academy Award Qualifying)
UFVA Carole Fielding Grant Semi-Finalist
Moustapha and Malek Akkad Endowed Fund funded & Fox Fellowship Endowment Fund
Synopsis
Following Wuhan’s Coronavirus lockdown, a rural single mother, Zhao, embarks on a dangerous journey in search of her preemie newborn baby stranded in Wuhan City Hospital. Joining her path is a mysterious eight-year-old girl, who shares the same determination to reunite with her mother in the city.
Director | Writer Kay Niuyue Zhang
Produced by Robin Zhongyu Wang; Kay Niuyue Zhang
Line Producer Robin Zhongyu Wang; Eris Yuanxin Zhao
Associate Producer & First Assistant Director Jiayun Li
Cinematographer Jiang Du
Editor Guangwei Du
Sound design and Mixer Lai Jiang
Composer Alvaro Balvin Benavides