The Cloud Learner (Teaser)
The Cloud Learner
Being a girl born in Tokyo city, she has always felt like an outsider whenever she was in the society since little. After growing up, she decided to find her way back to her haven, the nature, after being alienated at work.
Her journey started with a Mexico Shaman, opening the door to which her heart and spirit can finally connect to the nature, where the cloud is always her guardian.
“I am the sky. I am the flower. I am the human.” Shio said.
Directed by Polly Yeung
Produced by Vien Ip and Polly Yeung
Language: Japanese, Spanish, English
Place: Japan, Mexico
Duration: 10 min (completed) and 40 min (in postproduction)
The Exile
The Siren Song (Old title: The Exile)
It’s rumored that three sirens live around a forgotten village at northwestern Mexico. The truth is that a woman called Mercedes has got away from her husband’s violence for 40 years by staying at the seashore. Despite the harshness of the land and her job, she establishes a strong relationship with the nature, performs a stereotypically masculine work and becomes an independent fisherwoman.
However, her way of life becomes a pretext for the inhabitants of the old village to stigmatize her “siren”. She endures the loneliness and passes on all of her vision and skill to Maria and Nora, her daughter and granddaughter. However, the poverty spiral in which they fall drives them to return to their village and give up their natural way of life; Mercedes taking care of her grandsons, questioning her own value, and the younger ones, doing stable but poorly paid jobs at little factories. Now, they are making the last attempt to return to their self-determined way of life and to recover the freedom that they only find at the sea.
Directed by Eden Bernal
Produced by Eden Bernal, Julio Lopez and Polly Yeung
Language: Spanish
Place: Mexico
Status: Pre-production, principal shooting in Spring 2020