A Brighter Summer Day
for The Lady Avengers

experimental narrative | 16mm | 12 mins | 2024

Taiwan, 1980s. A hot summer day, watermelon juice, and teenager Ming's sexual awakening with her celluloid fantasies. Shot on 16mm.

51st Student Academy Awards — Gold Medalist (Alternative/Experimental, Los Angelas, USA)

2025 Tribeca Festival (New York, USA)

2025 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF, Brussels, Belgium)

2025 San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFilm, San Francisco, USA)

2025 Center of Asian American Media Fest (CAAM, San Francisco, USA)

2025 Leiden Shorts (Leiden, Netherlands)

2025 Golden Harvest Film Festival 金穗獎 (Taipei, Taiwan)

2025 Hallucination Collectives (Lyon, France)

2025 Scottish International Fantastic Arts Network (SI-FAN, Edinburgh, UK)

2025 Final Girls Berlin Film Festival (Berlin, Germany)

2025 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market Picks (Clermont-Ferrand, France)

2025 Slamdance (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

2025 London Short Film Festival (London, UK)

2024 Fantastic Fest (Austin, TX, USA)

2024 Torino Film Festival (Turin, Italy)
2024 Kaohsiung Film Festival 高雄電影節 — Best Film (Taiwanese Competition, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)