roots that reach towards the sky English and Mandarin |16mm Film | 2024 | 15 min | DCP
2024 BFI London Film Festival (World Premiere)
When her immigrant mother’s Chinese Traditional Medicine shop gets
vandalized, Kai, a young botanist is thrust in between her mother’s
grief and her muralist partner’s mission for community catharsis, and
must confront the barriers to her own healing.
writer/director
Jess X. Snow
producers
frisly soberanis, akemi Look, eris qian, yumeng han production houses
tierra narrative, a wondering comet
Awards 2024 First Run Film Festival, Craft Awards — Faculty Commendation for Thesis Work, Best Sound Design 2021 NYU Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science in Film Production Award 2022 Sundance Uprise Grant Finalist 2022 C.V. Starr Fund for A/P/A Research