Becoming a Film Director

From September 2023 to the end of April 2024, we tracked and filmed two young female directors participating in a director development program: HAN Xia from the south and ZHOU Xiaoting from the north, both with distinctly different personalities. Through my camera lens, I observed them during their rigorous courses and filming training. Their faces converged and separated within the frame: I saw not only them but also the 20 female directors involved in the program, my own reflection from two years earlier in the same place, and ultimately, all these images merged into a single, somewhat blurry yet distinct figure—that of a female creator, representing all of us. I want to share with everyone the confusions and challenges they encounter while preparing and completing their projects.