PLUM TOWN
A young land developer returns to his childhood home in the Chinese countryside for the first time in a decade with the hopes of convincing his stubborn father to sell the family plum orchard.
Kelly Yu, Writer/Director
Kelly Yu is a Swedish-born, New Orleans raised, Chinese-American writer and director. Her work is driven by a deep fascination with finding humanity in the absurd, as well as exploring complex familial relationships and cultural identity often through an "East-meets-West" lens. Her short films have screened at film festivals around the world, with her most recent short Plum Town winning the Grand Jury Award at Boston Independent Film Festival, the Crested Butte Film Festival, the NFFTY New Talent Award for 'Best Director Under 25," and premiering online on the renowned platform Short of the Week. The feature screenplay of the same name holds on a rare "9" on the Black List, and has awarded her finalist in the WGA Michael Collyer Screenwriting Fellowship, the Black List Feature Lab, and the Sundance Development Lab. Kelly holds a B.F.A from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and is based in LA.
Credits (full credits available on IMDB):
Starring: Richard Ouyang & Jeff Chen
Executive Producers
Jason Michael Berman
Co-Producers
Thomas Percy Kim
Jonathan Chan
Associate Producer
Ramin André Fathie
Cinematography
Philips Shum
Art Direction
Justine Chen
Editor
Stephen Pfeil
www.itskellyyu.com
“...even though this film is about a Chinese family told entirely in Mandarin, I feel nostalgic for a place I’ve never been, for foods I’ve never eaten, and for people I’ve never known.”
