Birdy Wei-Ting Hung
director
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.
Festivals
2024 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 SXSW London (London, UK)
2025 Final Girls Berlin Film Festival (Berlin, Germany)
2025 Short Shorts International Film Festival (Tokyo, Japan)
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 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)
2025 Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (ShortFest)
2025 Raindance Film Festival
2025 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN)—Best International Short
2025 Fantasia Film Festival
2025 Guanajuato International Film Festival—Best International Short
2025 Young Directors Awards—Shortlisted
2025 Odense Film Festival
2025 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)
2025 Concorto Film Festival
2025 Calgary International Film Festival
2025 Sydney Underground Film Festival
2025 Filmfest Sundsvall
2025 Galician Freaky Film Festival