China Man
201924 minPG
Synopsis
At the age of five, Ek Kiat left his family and village in China to be adopted by new parents in Singapore. This drastic transition led to a troubled childhood, as he grew up with the self-inflicted pressure to suppress his past. China Man, a 24-minute documentary short, follows Ek Kiat as he confronts the deep-seated insecurities that have plagued him over the last 20 years.
Credits
Director
Jerrel Chow
Jerrell Chow is a young documentary filmmaker. Graduated from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (Singapore) this year, he hopes to use film as a medium to shed light on the intricacies across people and cultures in the world, to uncover the things that make us human. His final year film China Man was a product of this, as he spent four months with a friend documenting the latter’s search for closure over his adoption twenty years ago. His next film, a documentary short on the noise music subculture in Yogyakarta, is currently in post-production and slated for release in 2020.