Birdy Wei-Ting Hung
director
A Brighter Summer Day
for the Lady Avengers
風流少女殺人事件
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
&
Awards
2024 Student Academy Awards (Alternative/Experimental)—Gold Medal Winner
2025 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN)—Best Short Film
2024 Kaohsiung Film Festival 高雄電影節—Golden Fireball Award (Best Film)
2025 Guanajuato International Film Festival—Best International Short Film
2025 Odense Film Festival—Artist Award
2025 San Francisco International Film Festival—Bay Area Short Award
2025 CAAM Film Fest—AT&T InspirASIAN Graduate Student Award
2025 Golden Harvest Awards 金穗獎—Critics Choice Award
2025 Sydney Underground Film Festival—Cinematic Alchemy Award
2025 SLASH Film Festival—Fantastic Future Award
2025 BOGOSHORTS—Best Experimental Short Film (International Competition)
2025 Weird Weekender International Film Festival Stuttgart—Best Short Film
2025 BizarroLand Film Festival—Jury Award
2025 ŻUBROFFKA International Short Film Festival—Special Mention
2025 San Diego Asian Film Festival—Special Mention
2025 Tribeca Film Festival—Midnight Mash-Up Program
2025 Metrograph—25 New Faces of Independent Film (by Filmmaker Magazine)
2024 Fantastic Fest
2025 Fantasia—Underground Program
2025 Slamdance Film Festival
2025 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
2025 Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (ShortFest)
2025 Raindance Film Festival
2025 SXSW London
2025 Beyond Fest
2025 SXSW Sydney—Horny Shorts Program
2025 Lisbon International Horror Film Festival (MOTELX)—X Section
2025 Young Directors Awards—Shortlisted
2025 Melbourne International Film Festival
2024 Torino Film Festival
2025 Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
2025 London Short Film Festival
2025 Clermont-Ferrand (Short Film Market Picks)
2025 Florida Film Festival
2025 Hallucinations Collectives
2025 Leiden Shorts
2025 SI-FAN
2025 Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia
2025 Concorto Film Festival—Guilty Pleasures Program
2025 Calgary International Film Festival
2025 Galician Freaky Film Festival
2025 Cork International Film Festival
2025 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
2025 Drunken Film Fest Oakland
2025 Virginia Film Festival
2025 Uppsala Short Film Festival
2025 Female Eye Film Festival
2025 Brisbane International Film Festival
2025 Filmfest Sundsvall
2025 CiLENS Indie Chinese Cinema Week
2026 Wench Film Festival
2026 Regensburg—Sexy Shorts Program
2026 Boston Underground Film Festival