Gravity, movement

Runtime: 110'

Expected release: December 2025

Production stage: Editing

Budget: $90,000 (37% in place)

1st feature: No

Looking for: Festivals, sales agents, distributors, buyers, gap financing

Synopsis:

Cheng Chih-Chung (Chung) moves with his hands. With awareness, braces, and crutches, he can walk up to 14 kilometers on foot. He contracted polio at four and grew up with unanswered questions. At 19, he encountered theater and found an outlet. This film interweaves Chung’s daily life, archives, and performances to offer an intimate look at how he negotiates his identity and challenges societal perceptions.

Director’s Profile:

Jessica Wan Yu LIN was born in 1984, based in Taipei. She is an independent filmmaker who has experience in Avant-garde theatre and cooperates with sound artists and choreographers. She was nominated as the best editor of the Golden Horse Award for “Small Talk”, which won the Teddy Award in 2017. Her film “TPE-Tics” won the Special Jury Award in the 2015 Taipei Film Award, selected by FIDMarseille, Singapore International Film Festival, etc. Recent editing work “After the snowmelt” selected by Vision du Reel, Jeonju International Film Festival, and the Golden Horse, etc. Producing work “From Island to Island” won the Best Documentary Award of the Golden Horse and the Grand Prize in Taipei Film Festival 2024.

Producer’s Profile:

CHO Tze-Lan works in documentary production and has collaborated with award-winning documentary filmmakers, including HUANG Hsin-Yao, HUANG Hui-Chen, and LAU Kek-Huat. Her recent title “Taste of Wild Tomato” was selected for the 2021 BIFF and won the 2022 TIDF Grand Prize of Taiwan Competition. “After the snowmelt” selected by Vision du Reel, Jeonju International Film Festival, and the Golden Horse, etc. To look for more equal ways to coexist with the world, she is dedicated to making films about gender, indigenous, human rights, and environmental issues.