WENG Yu-Tong

Introduction

Yu-Tong Weng, M.A. in film production, Ecole Supérieure de réalisation audiovisuelle, France. She was nominated in Tokyo Talents, which is a subordinate program of Berlinale Talents and a 1 on 1 workshop by Festival des 3 Continents and Taipei Film Festival with the identity of director and screenwriter. She has directed and written two short films: “The double” and “Undercurrent”. Her first detective fiction “Midday” was published in 2021, and she won an honorable mention of original animation script from Taiwan Creative Content Agency with her work “Shuang Sheng Chi Tan” (Chinese: 双生綺譚), and is now popular with her intellectual property “LA VIE CINE” (Chinese: 光庵). Facebook | 光庵-LA VIE CINE (https://www.facebook.com/laviecine)

Resident planning

Short novel “Shizuko on the addict and I” is an extension of my ongoing movie project “Only Sun Knows”, which was developed from the life of Japanese colonial rule period author Wong Nao. The main story line is a cross-cultural relationship on top of its May-December Love and 20-year age difference peculiarities, which are unbearable for others around. The program is to narrate the afternoon love story in a first person perspective: a Taiwanese artist’s dream which take him back to 1930s and fall in love with a Japanese woman named Shizuko. Anticipated result: a short novel of 7000 words.