Director - Alice Peiyao Xiao
Alice Peiyao Xiao was born and raised in China. She holds a B.F.A Filmmaking with a first-class honours degree from the School of Film and Television Arts at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
Based in Suzhou, China, she has participated in various creative projects as a director, a producer, a sound designer, and a production designer at studios and independent film crews internationally. Peiyao aims to find impressive stories between eastern and western cultures. During the past three-year production period, she has established an unparalleled trust with many respected young filmmakers worldwide. What is important to her is how a filmmaker brings the story to the audience and empathizes with them.
Filmography
Guilty Pleasure (2022)
Short Feature, 29'00
Producer
Yu Zhen Tang (2021)
Short Feature, 10'56
Director, Writer
2022 Berlin Indie Film Festival - Official Selection
2022 SAIFF - Official Selection, Best Poster
2022 Crime&Mystery Film Festival - Best Performance
2022 Canadian Cinematography Awards - Best Student Film
2022 New York Cinematography Awards - Best Student Director, Best Student Film Cinematography, Best Film Lighting
2022 European Cinematography Awards - Best Student Film, Best Student Film Cinematography
096 (2021)
Short, 17'23
Producer, Sound Designer
2021 Interfilm Berlin Short Film Festival - China New Talent Official Selection
1st Media, Exhibition, Graphic, Arts Creative Media Festival - Best Team
Papercut (2021)
Short, 12'54
Producer, Sound Designer
1st Media, Exhibition, Graphic, Arts Creative Media Festival - Best Creativity
What Do You Suggest Then (2021)
72-Hour Film, 6'49
Co-Producer, Production Designer, Sound Engineer
Screened in the 1st MEGA Media Festival
Galloping With Future (2021)
Promotion, 6'28
Chief Producer
Published at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University's 15th-anniversary event and official public account
Exhausted (2021)
Short, 30'0
Producer, Sound Mixer
X‘ING (2021)
Digital Fashion Photography
Producer
University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion
Wildfire (2020)
Documentary
Director, Producer, Editor
Published among Chinese indie bands social media
Suzhou Design Week-Virtual Studio (2020)
Exhibition
Chief Producer
Awarded the Best Innovation of Suzhou International Design Week
Sis (2020)
Short, 7'0
Director, Writer
Filmography
Drama
Sir John Falstaff
Classic Script
Family
Thunderstorm
Musical
Chicago, Broadway play
Family, Original Works
Lucky Stiff, Broadway play
Film and Online Series
Kiss You High (2020), Online Series
Production Projects
Yu Zhen Tang (2021), Short, 10'56, Producer
Young Bae & Friends (2019), Promotion, Director, Producer
Producer - Mengke Li (Moco)
Mengke Li (Moco) is an actor and a producer. She has studied and experienced art since her childhood. Dance has brought her into the world of art at first. She studied Chinese dance and ballet for six years in the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, followed by seven years of drama studies in the Central Academy of Drama. Such experience enabled her creative form to surpass dance, music, movies, and dramas. She believes in the preciousness of creativity and the power of down-to-earth.
Filmography
Bai Zhi Hua (2021), Short Feature, appr. 25’00
DIT
London Film School Production
Cherries on Summer Night (2021), Short, appr. 10‘00
DIT, Technical Advisor
Xin Nong Ren (2021), Feature, appr. 50'00
DIT
Yu Zhen Tang (2021), Short Feature, 10'56
DoP
Oedipus (2021), Short, 9'00
Dop
Galloping With Future (2021), Promotion, 6'28
DIT
Published at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University's 15th anniversary event and official public account
Exhausted (2021), Short, 30’00
DoP
Volume (2020), Poetic Documentary, 11'21
Cinematographer, Editor
Tomorrow (2020), Short, 4'00
Dop
DoP - Xiao Ling (Jack)
Xiao Ling (Jack) is a young cinematographer from China. He was introduced to photography from an early age, and it has been one of his parts, especially with his school life. As the creative field he had worked in became diverse, he gradually turned his attention to moving images and motion pictures at the university level.
As a young man born at the crossroads of film and digital photography, he resumed his exploration of film imaging five years ago. With the combination of these factors, Xiao is particularly interested in bringing the ideas of still photography into dynamic storytelling; he also has unique insights into the appropriate imaging materials for different scenes.
Xiao's knowledge in many fields makes him the "problem-solver" and "solution-breaker" in the crew, often finding solutions when the shooting is arduous. Xiao has demonstrated his flexibility in adapting different directors' creative styles while maintaining a unique approach.
1st AD - Xin Du (Chu)
Xin Du is a young filmmaker from the remote northwest of China. He is currently studying film directing in SoFTA, XJTLU.
Over the past year, he had worked in various positions in many young filmmaking teams, gradually acquiring a wealth of skills in making films.
He said, "In a world that is desperate at every moment, film offers me a faint hope."
In recent years, Xin Du's goal is to return to his hometown to produce a film about northwest China, documenting his childhood in light and shadow.
Filmography
Cherries on a Summer Night (2021), Short, 5’04,
Director, Writer, Editor, Colorist.
Yu Zhen Tang (2021), Short Feature, 10'56
1 st AD
Goldfish (2021), Short, 7’28,
Director, Writer, Colorist, Sound Designer.
Oedipus (2021), Short, 9'00
Gaffer
Papercut (2021), Short, 12'54
1 st AD
Awarded the Best Creative at the 1st MEGA Media Festival
Tomorrow (2020), Short, 4'00
1 st AD
The killing of civilization (2020), Short, 3’18
Documentary, Director, Colorist
Sound Supervisor - Muge Li
Li Muge graduated from XJTLU majoring in Film and TV Production. She has worked as a producer, director, editor and sound mixer. She is now working mainly on film sound mixing.
She believes that in film, sound does not exist dependent on images. When a person is in the fetal stage, hearing is more likely to influence one's perception than vision. At the same time sound is also the presence that will be most easily overlooked. Digital audio technology can transform dynamic nature and human imagination into static quantitative signals. Film sound is the externalized manifestation of the human mind. This expression beyond the human body has attracted her to film sound production.
Filmography
Yu Zhen Tang (2021), Short Feature, 10'56
Sound Engineer, Sound Supervisor
096 (2021), Short, 17'23
Sound Engineer, Sound Designer
Selected into the China New Talent in Interfilm Berlin Short Film Festival
Awarded the Best Team at the 1st MEGA Media Festival
Three Seconds (2021), Short
Sound Engineer, Sound Designer, Sound Editor
Screened at the 1st MEGA Media Festival
Life (2021), Stop Motion Animation
Producer, Director, Cinema, Sound Designer
Screened at the 1st MEGA Media Festival
Maybe (2021), Short
Sound Engineer
Screened at the 1st MEGA Media Festival
Digitalizaion (2020), Interactive Video Game
Production, Technical support
Master Liang (2019), Documentary
Cinema assistant, Sound
Sound Designer and Mixer - Ringo
Ringo is studying BA Filmmaking at SoFTA, XJTLU. “Any form of art can’t reach that complexity of life and can’t gracefully approach the density of humanity other than film.” “With the help of camera, we then become the scavengers of time.” As a young man who practice film in the era of film demise, he said “It’s at dusk but it’s not too late.” “Film is swallowed by the torrent of moving image. I really can’t figure out other ways to help but making films.” “If film is my answer to the world, then I must be yelling ‘I don’t know!’.”
Filmography
Oedipus (2021), Fiction, 9'00
Director
Exhausted (2021), Short, 33'0
Director
Redrum (2021), 72h-challenge, 4'00
Director
Tomorrow (2020), Fiction, 4'00
Director
Wo (2020), Documentary, 11min
Director, DoP
Dance with Me (2019), Documentary, 18min
Director
Filmography
Yu Zhen Tang (2021), Short Feature, 10'56
Gaffer
Galloping With Future (2021), Promotion, 6'28
Gaffer, Colorist
Published at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University's 15th anniversary event and official public account
Exhausted (2020), Short, 30'0
Gaffer
Gaffer - Ruofan Lin
Ruofan Lin is a young architect and filmmaker. Committed to exploring the relationship between architecture and film, he has participated in the shooting of many short films as gaffer and cinematographer. His short film 'Rectangle Vector Comapss' was exhibited at the Art & Design Education FutureLab in Shanghai in 2021.
Gaffer and Architect - Jingyang Huang
Jingyang Huang is from Haikou city, Hainan province. He is famous for a radical creative lighting and image style. In his undergraduate, he uses the architectural knowledge to help film crew with production design, light concept design. He determines to become an excellent filmmaker in the new era of China.
Filmography
Yu Zhen Tang (2021), Short Feature, 10'56
Gaffer
Galloping With Future (2021), Promotion, 6'28
Gaffer, Colorist
Published at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University's 15th anniversary event and official public account
Exhausted (2020), Short, 30'0
Gaffer
Production Designer - Leheng Chen
Leheng is from Xi 'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He has been interested in building various houses with Lego since childhood . When he entered the university, driven by this interest, he chose architecture as his future direction of study. During the study, he searched for the process from exploration to design and then to perfection and was deeply attracted by it. After joining the production team, the design team started from scratch to complete the setting （build a house）. He participated in the design, construction and later filling of the furniture, making the wall old and other series of interesting things. For him, it seemed that his childhood dream of building a house had come true.
Filmography
Yu Zhen Tang (2021), Short Feature, 10'56
Production Designer
Galloping With Future (2021), Promotion, 6'28
Set Designer
Published at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University's 15th anniversary event and official public account
Architectural Design Projects (2021), In Process
Assistant Architect
Suzhou Railway Station: Fuyuan Station and Lianhua Park Station
Filmography
Yu Zhen Tang (2021), Short Feature, 10'56
DIT, Colorist
096 (2021), Short, 17'23
Colorist Supervisor
Selected into the China New Talent in Interfilm Berlin Short Film Festival
Awarded the Best Team at the 1st MEGA Media Festival
Papercut (2021), Short, 12'54
Colorist Supervisor
Awarded the Best Creative at the 1st MEGA Media Festival
Three Seconds (2021), Short
DoP, Colorist
Screened at the 1st MEGA Media Festival
Watermalon and mint (2021), Short
Colorist
London Film School
Awarded the Best Cinematography in LIFF (London Independent Film Festival)
Incense and Cigarettes (2021), Short
Colorist
London Film School
The next Banger (2021), TV Shows
Colorist
Bilibili Production
Street Dance of China (SDC) (2021), TV Shows
Colorist
Youku Production
DIT and Colorist - Yiming Huang
Yiming Huang is a junior colorist who has various color grading experience including commercials, shorts and TV shows. He starts his career as a photographer and in order to control the picture quality completely he decides to grade his own film. Now he is benefited from the photographer experience and has unique perspective to every film he grade. Yiming now is a experienced Davinci Resolve colorist and color science technician.