The sudden death of the son forces an unexpressive and isolated Chinese immigrant father to reflect on his relationship with the deceased son and to rediscover the meaning of family.
Director Biography - Taige Shi
Taige Shi, a third-year MFA student, received the George & Sakaye Aratani Fellowship for 2021-2022. He is expected to graduate from the UCLA School of Television Film and Theater with an MFA degree in directing. As an international student artist, Taige is interested in pursuing arts that can connect people from different cultural and sociological backgrounds. While at UCLA, Taige has directed multiple short films and has been commissioned by Human Rights Watch to social commentary works. He has also received the UCLA Mary Pickford Award recipient (2021) and UCLA John H. and Patricia W. Mitchell Fellowship for his works and contributions. In 2020, Taige started the documentary project “Gaku” to raise awareness of concurrent social issues Asian communities are facing in the United States.
The sudden death of the son forces an unexpressive and isolated Chinese immigrant father to reflect on his relationship with the deceased son and to rediscover the meaning of family.
Director Biography - Taige Shi
Taige Shi, a third-year MFA student, received the George & Sakaye Aratani Fellowship for 2021-2022. He is expected to graduate from the UCLA School of Television Film and Theater with an MFA degree in directing. As an international student artist, Taige is interested in pursuing arts that can connect people from different cultural and sociological backgrounds. While at UCLA, Taige has directed multiple short films and has been commissioned by Human Rights Watch to social commentary works. He has also received the UCLA Mary Pickford Award recipient (2021) and UCLA John H. and Patricia W. Mitchell Fellowship for his works and contributions. In 2020, Taige started the documentary project “Gaku” to raise awareness of concurrent social issues Asian communities are facing in the United States.