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

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