Where Does She Go | 2019 | 5 min. | color super 16mm

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Director: Huilan Xu

Screenwriter: Huilan Xu

Director of Photography: Grace George

Assistant Camera: Akesh Petal

Producer: James Giordano

On-set Producer: Abigail Hauptman

Assistant Director: Qiuyang Chen

Grip: Olivia Simon

Production Assistant: Maggie Sullivan

Gaffer: Vanessa Scarpellia

Sound Recordist: Rebeka Kashkin

Production Design: Qiuyang Chen

Set Photographer: Sam Resetarits 

Editor: Huilan Xu

Sound Design: James Giordano

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Starring:

Catherine Weidner

Emily Mesa

Kaitlyn Jackson

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Language:

English

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Logline:

After learning of her sister’s death, a girl struggles to come to terms with the loss.

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Synopsis:

Where Does She Go addresses death and its relation to the living through an incidence of a girl’s mysterious demise and her younger sister’s coming to term with it. Struggling to let go, the younger girl wonders where her sister has gone. Through a journey of dreams and nightmares, she seeks the truth of mortality.

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Director's Statement:

All the dreams are adapted from the dreams I actually had over the past year after my grandmother passed away. It was a real struggle to be at peace with it and Where Does She Go is the second film I have made because of her after Looking Out (2018). It is the beauty, the ambiguity, and the power of life and truth in death that motivated this film, and I am grateful of sharing this journey with all my 

audiences. And finally: If love has to leave, don’t ask why it does; and if love must go, don’t ask where it will be. 

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*acknowledgment* 

This project is partially funded by Ithaca College Roy H. Park School of Communications

James B. Pendleton Student Research and Production Grant