Long Takes: DO OVER
Filmmaker Highlight: Cheng Yu-Chieh of DO OVER
CineVue was privileged to speak with Cheng Yu-Chieh, an up-and-coming filmmaker whose multiple award-winning debut, DO OVER, will make its New York Premiere at our Festival.
CINEVUE: Please introduce your film and occupation if not a full-time filmmaker.
CYC: My film is titled DO OVER.
CINEVUE: Where you are based?
CYC: I am based in Taiwan.
CINEVUE: Would you please describe your film?
It's five stories set in the new year, all about doing things over.
CINEVUE: Why filmmaking? What’s so compelling about it?
It allows me to connect with many people through filmmaking. Film enables us to share our lives.
CINEVUE: How many films have you made?
CYC: I've made three: two shorts and one feature-length.
CINEVUE: Who or what are your biggest creative influences?
CYC: Now - my actors.
CINEVUE: What has been one blessing and one curse during your film's production?
CYC: We took each curse as a blessing alhough sometimes a curse is still a curse.
CINEVUE: What is the Asian or Asian American film that has had the most significant impact on you?
CYC: TAMPOPO by Juzo Itami.
CINEVUE: What do you look most forward to at the 07 AAIFF?
CYC: Every one going to the festival having a really good time.
Catch DO OVER at 11:30 am on Sunday, July 22nd at Asia Society.