42° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY FOR THE LADY AVENGERS
by Birdy Wei-ting Hung
Country: Taiwan
Year: 2024
Duration: 12'
1980s, Taiwan. A hot summer day, watermelon juice. A teenage girl’s sexual awakening with her celluloid fever dreams at a local movie theater.
Biography
film director
Birdy Wei-Ting Hung
(Taiwan) holds an M.F.A. degree at San Francisco University’s School of Cinema. Her works explore gender and sexuality, historical trauma, affect, the abject, and pleasures. She has screened internationally, including Fantastic Fest (Austin, TX), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco IndieFest. She is a winner of Student Academy Awards in the Alternative/Experimental category. Her research works were published on “cinemedia” and “MAI: Feminism & Culture.” She is a contributing author of Aaron Kerner’s book, Abject Pleasures in the Cinematics.
FILMOGRAFIA
Emilie (doc, mm, 2011), Millennia’s Faith Undone (videoclip, cm, 2018), Dear Commuter (doc, cm, 2021), Pattokan (videoclip, cm, 2023), A Brighter Summer Day for The Lady Avengers (cm, 2023).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, EDITING: Birdy Wei-ting Hung. SCREENPLAY: Birdy Wei-Ting Hung CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ai Chung. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Yin Chiao Liao, Ru Chang. COSTUMES: Yulin Fann. SOUND: R.T. Kao. CAST: Wei Huang, Yi Chun Chen, Manda Chou, Jay Lee. PRODUCTION: Jay Lee and Charlie Chen for LUCKYSPARKS
CONTACT: Birdy Wei-Ting Hung birdyweitinghung@gmail.com
