China Man
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.
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Credits
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.
