A YEAR (2018)
15 MINUTES | EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
WRITER/DIRECTOR Jisun Jamie Lee
PRODUCER Adel L. Morales, Jisun Jamie Lee, Keshab Pandey, Prabin Kumar Rawat
LOGLINE
A Himalayan village woman yearns to provide a better life for her young daughters. But the only possible option she sees is surrogacy – a choice that becomes a searing dilemma.
SYNOPSIS
The film tells the story of waiting for the rain. Until the rain actually falls, not only a whole life is told, a life of love, joy, pain and of migration, but also the eternal story of living and dying. Nature is the stage where everything takes place. Song of Clouds is a filmic poem about human beings between this world and the next, between the longing for the lost and the confident expectation of the world to come. In pictures like paintings, and the very careful sound work, a suction is created from which one cannot escape.
A YEAR premiered at Telluride Film Festival (2018), the film won Best Student Film at Woodstock and Best Film School Short at River Film Festival (2019). It was also selected for Florida, HollyShorts, Boston, New Orleans, and San Diego Asian Film Festivals.
ACHIEVEMENTS AND PARTICIPATIONS
WORLD PREMIERE Telluride Film Festival (2018) (USA)
BEST FILM SCHOOL SHORT River Film Festival (2019) (Italy)
BEST STUDENT FILM Woodstock Film Festival (2018) (USA)
Florida Film Festival (2019)
HollyShorts Film Festival (2019)
Boston Film Festival (2018) (USA)
New Orleans Film Festival (2018) (USA)
San Diego Asian Film Festival (2018) (USA)
CAST
Anu Thapa
Mahesh Tripathi
Mihika Gyawali
Omika Gyawali
Suman Nidhi Sharma
Meena Sharma Gyawali
CREW
DIRECTOR: Jisun Jamie Lee
PRODUCER: Adel L. Morales, Jisun Jamie Lee, Keshab Pandey, Prabin Kumar Rawat
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Lucas Joaquin
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Lasse Ulvedal Tolbøll
COMPOSER: Jay Wadley
EDITOR: Blair McClendon, Jisun Jamie Lee
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Suman Nidhi Sharma
ART DIRECTOR: Santosh lamsal
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Nigam Bhandari, Jian Luo
COLOURIST: Kath Raisch
