FRAGILE MOON (2020)

the 47th Annual Student Academy Awards - Semi Finalist  (学生奥斯卡入围半决赛)

LA Shorts - Official Selection


STORYLINE

Fragile Moon is a story surrounding a 60 years old Chinese immigrant, King. He was a famous Peking Opera singer back in China but moved to Los Angeles after the Chinese Cultural Revolution. King ended up washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant. It's hard for him to make ends meet, but to let his family back home not worried about his situation, he kept telling lies about how good his life is in the city of angels. He kept the lies going until he got a phone call from his sister, asking him to go back to China because their mother is dying. King straggled to get the money for the plane ticket. However. 

 

Directed & Written by Phyllis Tam

Produced by Harley Haibin Li