Gleaming
The company with you at the end of life.
ABOUT
In his last semester of college, Lin Mo faces what no college student ever expects to face. He struggles with an incurable disease and the prospect of missing his graduation. One by one, the fellow patients he has come to know pass away around him, and gloom sets in that he will spend his last days living in the hospital. Following his emotional journey, Gleaming presents an arresting glimpse of dignity in the face of mortality.
YEAR 2018
RUN TIME 10:43 Min
EMAIL swang02@mica.edu Website:
CAST & CREW CREDITS
DIRECTED BY Shiyu Wang
SCREENPLAY BY Shiyu Wang
PRODUCED BY Shiyu Wang
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Haiyang Liu
EDITED BY Shiyu Wang
MUSIC BY Steven Wyrick
PRINCIPAL CAST Yuhang Jiang | Yanjie Xu | Xinguo Li
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Gleaming concerns an issue of great personal significance for me, the fact that one of my classmates in college, who is my same age, now faces the incurable disease of leukemia and the certainty of spending his last days in the hospital. Across the globe and unable to spend these trying moments with him, I have come to use my filmmaking as a way to connect back to my home and grapple with the certain loss of a friend. Throughout my work as a filmmaker, I choose topics with a basis in real life and use cinema’s subtle tools of realism to document them in sound and image.
DIRECTOR BIO
Shiyu Wang is from Pingdingshan, the Eagle City, China. Compelled by the power of cinema to inspire action and engage issues of great human consequence, Shiyu works as a director and cinematographer on this, her directorial debut. She studied screenwriting and directing at the Communication University of China, Nanguang College. She is currently completing an MFA in Filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
FILM AND PRODUCTION STILLS
AWARDS
FULL FILM
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Shiyu Wang is from Pingdingshan, the Eagle City, China. Compelled by the power of cinema to inspire action and engage issues of great human consequence, Shiyu works as a director and cinematographer on this, her directorial debut. She studied screenwriting and directing at the Communication University of China, Nanguang College. She is currently completing an MFA in Filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
(Update provided in May 2018)