A Film Festival Case Study
Narrative | Dramatic Features
Film Name: Hello to Me in 100 Years
Genre: Documentary ,Animation, Family/Children, Fantasy
Length of film: 10 minutes
Date: Feb. 28, 2022
Director: Wu-Ching Chang
Producer: Wuan-Ling Guo, Yi-Hsin Liao, Wu-Ching Chang
Executive Producer: Wu-Ching Chang
Writer: Wu-Ching Chang
Cinematographer: Wu-Ching Chang
Editor: Wu-Ching Chang
Composer: Chuan-Chi Lin
Production Company: Public Television Service Foundation, Aco Creative Ltd.
Budget: $15,640
Financing: NA
Shooting Format: Digital
Screening Format: Digital
World Premiere: San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival, the USA
Official Selection: BFI London Film Festival, HollyShorts Film Festival, DokuFest, Cleveland International Film Festival, Athens, International Film and Video Festival, RiverRun International Film Festival, and DeadCenter Film Festival.
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The Official Trailer for Hello to Me in 100 Years
Watch The Trailer for Hello to Me in 100 Years directed by Wu-Ching Chang
A Short Biography of Wu-Ching Chang
Wu-Ching Chang is an award-winning animation director. She is based in the UK and Taiwan and available for international freelance and contract work. Born in Taiwan, Wu-Ching Chang earned an MA. Animation at Royal College of Art in the UK and an BFA in New Media Art at the Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. She has worked as the concept artist and cinematic artist for the game Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition.
She has worked as a freelance animator and illustrator since 2010. Wu-Ching Chang is an artist who creates animation and illustration by exploring personal experience and female issues. Her animated films are often based on experimental, documentary and historical context by doing interviews and research in the pre-production stage. Her films contain multiple experimental materials practice, Through visual art, she tells stories about life.
The Wu-Ching Chang Interview
indieactivity: What is your film about?
Wu-Ching Chang (WC): It is full of children’s imagination of the future world. It combines historical archives and childlike visual styles to create a strong contrast with fun and intriguing storytelling. From the microscopic to the macroscopic. From the individual, the society, to the universe, and finally back to the individual itself. Through the film, I want to propose two questions to the audience.
“Will technology advance in the future world make us happier? Or will it make us more alienated and lonelier?” “The primitive land and community in Taiwan 100 years ago, and the city full of technology and speed 100 years from now, which one is more suitable for living?”
The core issue of the film is humanism. We human beings have been pursuing the richness of the spiritual world. No matter how the world and technology change and progress, one thing will not change-Life needs each other, so that we won’t be alone.
In addition, the film approached multiple issues through focused interviews with children, including Industrial Revolution 4.0 Machine replacing human workers and modernity. It shows how the next generation solve the environmental and political problems they will encounter.
At the end of the film, the children’s painting presents the imagination of a utopia, a scenery imaginary land of joy and plenty where there is no war and plunder, and man and nature coexist peacefully.
Tell us about the festival run, marketing and sales?
Wu-Ching Chang (WC): The film “Hello to Me in 100 Years” has been officially selected at several significant film festivals, including the BFI London Film Festival, HollyShorts Film Festival, DokuFest, Cleveland International Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, RiverRun International Film Festival, DeadCenter Film Festival, Golden Harvest Awards for Outstanding Short Films, San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival, Dytiatko International Children’s Media Festival, and Cinemagic Belfast Film Festival. Furthermore, it was invited to be screened at the Short Film Market at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.
Additionally, it has been screened at INPUT – the International Public Television Conference, a global gathering for public television professionals worldwide. Following the screening, there was a Q&A session with director Wu-Ching Chang, moderated by Akiko Murai, the Chief Editor of NHK in Japan, and Xavier Blake, the Production Coordinator from Nickelodeon, a children’s media company in the US.
Give the full Official Synopsis for your film?
Wu-Ching Chang (WC): What will the world be like 100 years from now? Maybe there will be flying cars, and many things can be done by machines. Maybe we will live under the sea or in space. However, will advanced technology make us happier?
The film can be perceived as a dynamic dialectical process. The storytelling is based on the recordings of children’s interviews in the workshop. At the early stage of production, the crew held a children’s workshop and then edited the voice to build the narrative structure. It is full of children’s imagination of the fantasy world of the past, present, and future.
The film incorporates historical archives, children’s interviews, and paintings to create a strong contrast with fun and intriguing storytelling. From the microscopic to the macroscopic, from the individual, the society, to the universe, and finally back to the individual to focus on the richness of the spiritual world. No matter how the world and technology change and progress, one thing will not change-Life needs each other, so that we won’t be alone.
Development & Financing?
Wu-Ching Chang (WC): In 2021, when director Wu-Ching Chang’s previous work, “My Grandmother Is an Egg” was screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, she crossed paths with Wuan-Ling Guo from the Public Television Service Foundation. This encounter led to a conversation between the two, as Wuan-Ling Guo admired Wu-Ching Chang’s work of documentary animation. Consequently, she invited Wu-Ching Chang to create a documentary animated film for the Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival, organized by the Public Television Service Foundation, as a special program for the festival’s 10th anniversary. This is the origin story of the film.
As a result, the funding for this project was provided by the Public Television Service Foundation and is owned by the Public Television Service Foundation. The production was carried out by Wu-Ching Chang and her company Aco Creative Ltd.
Production?
Wu-Ching Chang (WC): The narrative structure of this documentary animated film is based on the recordings of children’s interviews in the workshop. At the early stage of production, the crew held an eight-hour children’s workshop and then edited the voice that was recorded through the workshop to build the narrative structure. The film can be seen as a dynamic dialectical process.
Festival Preparation & Strategy?
Wu-Ching Chang (WC): The submission started with those that have stricter premiere requirements. The film is in selection at 22 international film festivals. Given the film is for children, it also hit the screens at numerous children’s film festivals.
The Release?
Wu-Ching Chang (WC): The Public Television Service Foundation and Aco Creative Ltd. reached an agreement to jointly submit this film to international film festivals. Both parties have collaborated on a shared list of film festivals for synchronized submissions.
Advice from the Filmmaker?
Wu-Ching Chang (WC): Try your best and be innovative as much as possible. Go for it! Good Luck to everyone.
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