Rattlefly
20min, Sony F-3
A small-town teenage girl with a dead end existence finds short-lived hope when she falls in love with the new pastor‘s luminous daughter.
Director: Min Ding
Writers: Yen-Chiao Huang, Min Ding
Producer: Layla Zhuqing Ji
Director of Photography: Gregg Conde
Editor: Eduardo Cohn
Cast: Maren Lord, Sadie Scott, Sheilagh Weymouth, Deema Aitken, Greg Seel
Email: md27777@gmail.com, filmmakerlayla@gmail.com
Phone: Min Ding – 917-825-7490; Layla Zhuqing Ji – 856-562-1267
About the Co-Writer/Director
Min Ding was born and raised in China. She studied Visual Arts at SUNY Purchase College, where she received her B.F.A. in Graphic Design and later worked for the award-winning new media company Funny Garbage in New York City.
She received her M.F.A. in Film Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2013. During her studies, Min was the recipient of the Columbia Women-in-Film Fellowship and the Student Production Grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is the director of the award-winning short film Three Light Bulbs. This film is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the Moving Image and has shown at many international film festivals.
About the Producer
Layla was born and raised in Shenyang, China. She came to the United States in 2007 to pursue her passion in storytelling and filmmaking. As a trilingual international filmmaker, Layla’s films have been awarded and officially selected in numerous film festivals around the world. She shares her voice with the world through filmmaking and delivers positive messages to society. Layla is also the founder of ZQ Pictures, a U.S. and China based Production Company.
