Light of the Setting Sun | 74 minutes | 2024 | United States, Taiwan
A Taiwanese-American filmmaker questions her family’s silence around the cycles of violence that have persisted since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. Light of the Setting Sun is a poetic family portrait of what’s been left unsaid.
*Winner* Grand Jury Prize – San Diego Asian Film Festival 2024
The film has received generous support from ITVS, Center for Asian American Media, Sundance Institute, Hot Docs Forum, Field of Vision, Chicken & Egg, Bay Area Video Coalition, Meerkat Media and Points North Institute.
Director, Producer: Vicky Du
Producer: Danielle Varga
Editor: Terra Long
Cinematographers: Jih-E Peng, Daniel Chein
Executive Producers: Jean Tsien, Don Young, Stephen Gong, Carrie Lozano, Lois Vossen
For more info, please visit the film's website: www.lightofthesettingsun.com