Duet
China, 14m, Digital
An unspoken romance inevitably resurfaces when a high school music teacher meets an old colleague again and decides to perform together for the first time as piano duet partners after they’ve long since drifted apart from each other.
Writer/Director: Shae Xu
Producer: Chuxin Huo
Director of Photography: Fei Yang
Editor: Shae Xu
Production Designer: Kanne Ge
Sound Design: Gary Kwan
Composer: Kat Vokes
Cast: Mingyi Zhang, Lipei Gao
Contact: Shae Xu, yx2451@columbia.edu
Program D
Screening May 8, 2022 at 9pm
About the Writer/Director
Shae Xu (b.1989) is a Shanghai filmmaker based in New York. Her works unveil a feminist’s concern in a fast-growing China. Xu is a Talents Tokyo alumni and her short film Duet has won Directors Guild of America’s Grand Prize Student Film Award in the Women Directors category. Xu is currently working on her first feature Yellow Plum Rain.
About the Producer
Chuxin Huo (b. 1995) is a filmmaker based in New York and Beijing. Her ambition is to lead the development of independent films in China, with a focus on telling stories from marginalized perspectives. Huo received her MFA in Creative Producing from Columbia University in 2020.
