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A GRAND CANAL

NY Premiere

Director: Johnny Ma

Canada, 2013, 19 min

Shooting Format:Super 16

Festival Year:2014

Category:Narrative Short

Cast:Mei Song Shun, Hong Sheng Wang, Xiao Min Du, Zhan Mei, Yun Feng Wang

Crew:Producers: Jie Chen, Sarah Stallard - Screenwriters: Johnny Ma - Cinematographer: Yi Fan Wang - Editor: Mike Long

Email:johnnym9799@hotmail.com

Synopsis

A Greek tragedy told in Chinese pop music. The tragic events of a boat captain trying to collect a debt to save his fleet of boats, as remembered by his ten year old son.

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About the director

Johnny Ma was born in Shanghai China and immigrated to Toronto at age 10, where he learned his first English sentence "Can I play?" He is a DGA and National Board of Review student-award winning director and a recent graduate from the Columbia University MFA program. His most recent short film A Grand Canal screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Other than filmmaking, Ma enjoys teaching cats how to play fetch like dogs.

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