JINGJING TIAN - MARY ANNE & FRANK
Receiving pre-production funds in the fourth round of Future of Film is Female funding round (March 2019).
About the film: MARY ANNE & FRANK is about a 70 year old woman whose husband passes away. As his body decays inside of their apartment, she believes that he's still alive until an unexpected friendship snaps her back into reality.
Anticipated production is May 2019.
Anticipated completion is 2021.
About the filmmaker: Jingjing Tian is a Sundance Writer's Lab semifinalist and a Sundance Sloan Foundation semifinalist. She has held fellowships at the New York Public Library and the Middlebury Script Lab, and won best female director and awards in excellence at AT&T, the Princeton Indpt. Film Festival, and more. Her short film about a Chinese cowboy has screened at the Seattle Asian American Film Festival, the Cleveland International Film Festival, the Museum of the Chinese in America and more. Her work has been featured in Paper Magazine and AM New York. As an actress, she has worked with director Eliza Hittman and DP Helene Louvart.
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