MEDIUM
Filmmaker Kay Niuyue Zhang: “Filmmaking is about evoking the collective unconscious memories and emotions”
DEADLINE
“We are so honored to spotlight the next generation of directors as we celebrate the 27th annual DGA Student Film Awards,” said DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter. “Recognizing emerging talent through these Awards is one part of our ongoing efforts to encourage inclusion in the industry, and we’re proud that a number of our past recipients have found success in film and television. We congratulate these extraordinary student filmmakers and look forward to seeing their future creations.”
VARIETY
KCET’s 23rd Fine Cut Festival of Films Announces Student Finalists, Industry Judges
KCET, the Los Angeles public broadcaster, announced the student finalists and eight industry judges who will take part of the 23rd Fine Cut Festival of Films. The festival will broadcast as a series of six one-hour episodes starting Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 10 p.m. on KCET in Southern California and on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 11 p.m. ET/PT on Link TV nationwide.
The Script Magazine
Exploring Human Conne
Short film 'Mother in the Mist' filmmaker Kay Niuyue Zhang speaks with Script about writing a movie based on a true story set against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic in Wuhan, emotional resonance with character development, and the stories she's driven to tell.
FILMMAKER MAGAZINE
The American Pavilion announced today the 2022 program of its Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the upcoming 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The films in the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase focus on themes as diverse as the meaning of community, gender identity, the COVID-19 epidemic, self-perceptions and representation, the holocaust, the development and evolution cultural identity, family dynamics, the quest for love, and more.
VeryAsian, Inc
What are the stories you’re motivated to tell, and what’s your mission as a storyteller?
Thematically, I definitely want to tell stories about women. I will always be making very emotional, female coming-of-age films. Stories about women reaching new stages of growth.
Film Fest Report
The Cannes Film Festival is a great place to discover new talents: gems can be found in competition, at special screenings, in the festival’s parallel sections, as well as at emerging filmmakers’ showcases. Chinese-American filmmaker Kay Niuyue Zhang presented her DGA Student Film Award Winning short Mother in the Mist at the American Pavillion, where it swept another award.
FILM THREAT
By Sumner Forbes
The first sequence of writer/director Niuyue Kay Zhang’s Mother in the Mist involves a young girl calling out for her mother on a rural road shrouded in a blanket of mist. There’s no response other than the lonely echo of her query. This introduction sets the stage for a short film that is missing none of the poignancy of high-quality feature-length dramas.
Indie Shorts Magazine
Mother in the Mist: The Sting Of Sorrow Amidst Disaster.
Niuyue Kay Zhang’s tale of tenderness and perseverance in the face of a snowballing disaster, Mother in the Mist is set in Wuhan, just as lockdowns began to be imposed in the initial days. It follows Zhao, a new mother who has yet to see the daughter she gave birth to, and Snowie, a little girl fighting her own way to the heart of the catastrophic epidemic in the hope of seeing her mother.
ChineseInLA.com
Feature: Rising Chinese female diretor’s “Mother in the Mist“ dominates the Director Guild of America Award
BSN
ASIAN FEMALE DIRECTOR BRINGS EMOTIONAL WUHAN STORY TO HOLLYWOOD
Kay Zhang, (above) trailblazing filmmaker, producer, and creative force behind the award-winning film, Mother in the Mist is making waves in the film festival circuit and has her eyes set on Hollywood for more Asian representation.
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