When A Rocket Sits On The Launch Pad

31/10/2024 - quanly

Short Film/ China, USA/ 12 min/2023

Director: Bohao Liu

Screenwriter: Bohao Liu

Director of Photography: Bohao Liu

Production: Bohao Liu, Gene Gallerano

Music Composer: Caleb Freundlich

Production designer: Yanqi Liang

Synopsis:

At the basketball camp, 15-year-old Fang talks about her dreams. But life never stops, it moves too fast. Her phone falls into water. There are too many stairs to climb. The adults seem to decide her future. And the rocket keeps being launched every month.

Director’s biography:

Born in Sichuan, China in 1992, Bohao Liu studied filmmaking and screenwriting at New York University and the London Film School. His graduation film, the short documentary Eagles Rest in Liangshan, won a Student Academy Award in 2021. He is currently working on a PhD in film studies in Paris. His second short film, When a Rocket Sits on the Launch Pad, is selected at Berlinale Generation 2023.