Festival Updates

Congratulations!

A Watermelon Seed has participated and screened at below U.S Film Festivals in 2007:

The 16th Woods Hole Film Festival, 2007
The 30th Asian American International Film Festival, 2007
Austin Woman’s Film, Music & Literary Festival, 2007
2nd Annual Sunscreen Film Festival, 2007
San Diego Asian American Film Festival, 2007
The 6th Annual Asian Film Festival of Dallas, 2007
The 13th Boulder Asian Film Festival, 2007

Daily Bruin Interview

UCLA students go the distance to pursue film

• Nick Rudman
• Published: Monday, June 12, 2006

As a visual medium, film is adept at crossing borders to tell stories. It makes sense, then, that students of film are equally capable of crossing borders to tell stories of their own.

A number of graduating undergraduate film students have come from other countries to study at UCLA. In some ways, these students have had a head start in learning the persistence necessary to succeed in the field.

Miqi Huang, a native of China and a fourth-year film student concentrating in film production, was rejected when she first applied for a student visa. So, she tried again.

“When I had my interview to get a visa, the ambassador asked me why I wanted to go to the U.S. I said, ‘I want to study film and be a director.’ (The ambassador) was amazed by a girl who knew what she wanted to do,” Huang said.

Another obstacle is the ever-present language barrier. As Japanese fourth-year film student Mio Hachimori pointed out, language presents even more challenges in the collaborative atmosphere of filmmaking.

“I think communication’s been the hardest part,” she said. “As a director, I have to tell everyone exactly what I want to do.”

Hachimori intends to stay in Los Angeles after graduation to pursue a career in film. Huang, however, intends to someday put her education to use at home.

“In China, no matter how hard you work, you’re not going to make the money back from your education,” she said. “If I go back, I really want to get experience (first) that will help.”

The sharing of experiences in the major’s small classes has been eye-opening, regardless of nationality.

“When I work with American students, it’s really fun for me,” Hachimori said. “I get a lot of new information and new vision for my films. I like that.”

http://dailybruin.ucla.edu/archives/id/37015/

Credit List

Cast
Mei: Leah Liang
Jun: Brinna Xiao Han Li
Father: Jesse Wang
Mother: Jennifer J Z MacKenzie
Secret Woman: Pauline Yasuda

Crew
Diretor: MiQi Huang
Producer: Yimin Chen, MiQi Huang
Assistant Director: Mio Hachimori
Director of Photography: Quyen Tran
Assistant Camera: Kinga Dobos
Gaffer: Eve Cohen, Paul de Lumen
Boom: Abigail Septimus
Mixer: Lena Khan
Art Director: Jennifer Lee
Costume Design: Tera Marie Struck, Wanwan Hsu
Production Assistant: Eve Moon, Conall Jones
Production Design: Hyosung Paik
Assistant Production Design: Rena Tsukamoto
Set construction: Mr. Leo’z, Dick Lo, Jack Ho, Nicole Tang, Edward Chan, Ben Leung
Make up & Hair: Wanwan Hsu

Editor: MiQi Huang
Foley Artist: Susan Fitch-Simmon
Mixer: Colin Rogers

Film Composer: Fook Ken Hor

TumTum Zhun
Composer: Fook Ken Hor
Lyricist: Rudi Loke
Guitarist: Keliks Siu
Singer: Joyce Lam

Title & Translation: Joshua Chu, Alice Su