Adrift
United States, 20 mins, Digital
A scientist travels to a remote fishing village to rescue a beached whale, only to be swept into long-buried emotions about the home she left behind on the coast of China.
Director: Raina Yang
Writer: Raina Yang
Producer: Raina Yang, Joyce Xing, Jean Chapiro
Director of Photography: Michael Cong
Editor: Raina Yang
Production Designer: Amanda Bulman
Composer: Noam Rapoport
Cast: Sam Xu
Contact: ly2558@columbia.edu
Program C
Saturday, May 17th at 5:00 PM
About the Writer/Director
Raina Yang is a Chinese writer-director based in New York and an MFA candidate at Columbia. Her films have screened at AAIFF and beyond, supported by Panavision, NYC Women’s Fund, and Sloan Foundation. A former fellow of Athena Writers Lab and Thousand Miles Project, she crafts stories at the edge of individual histories, human consciousness, and imagined futures.
About the Producer
Born in Hangzhou, China, Joyce Yueyi Xing is a creative producer based in New York and Hangzhou. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BS in Neuroscience from UCLA. Her short and feature works have screened at top festivals including Atlanta, Seattle and Hawai’i, and her fashion films have appeared on SHOWstudio, VOGUEfilm, and NOWNESS China.