Evasion
There is no way out.
ABOUT
A young woman wakes up in a hospital recovery room, unsure of where she is or how she got there. She periodically has blackouts or flashes—she can’t be sure what they are—where she is in another place. As she realizes that these flashes are in actuality seeing through the eyes of two other people in the same situation, a young mother and a medical student, she seeks to escape. But the experiment has just begun, and the newly merged brain of these three is coming to life.
YEAR 2019
RUN TIME 11:33 Min
CAST & CREW CREDITS
DIRECTED BY Yunbing Li
SCREENPLAY BY Yunbing Li
PRODUCED BY Paul Lai
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Minji Kim
SOUND BY Jamie Duffy
PRINCIPAL CAST Lindsay Corriveau | Mike Sutton | David Jo | Melanie Crespo
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
As female filmmaker from a small town in Northwest China, I have a passion for science fiction deeply rooted in the concept of freedom. Uncontrollable, unlimited, and uninterrupted, my voice is to be heard, and my mind is to be expressed through this powerful form of art.
Growing out of an idea from my childhood, Evasion asks what it would mean if the physical sensations we have of touching, seeing, hearing, and smelling are false signals provided by the brain.
How can we tell whether we exist in a real world? The film explores the complex responsibility carried by those who give birth and protect life.
DIRECTOR BIO
Yunbing Li is an aspiring director, editor, visual effects artist, and virtual reality filmmaker currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. A former assistant producer at Youku, she has an international background in narrative film, television news, online entertainment, and visual effects, with a special focus on postproduction. She holds a degree in television production from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and is now pursuing an MFA in filmmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
FILM AND PRODUCTION STILLS
AWARDS
FULL FILM
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Yunbing Li is an aspiring director, editor, visual effects artist, and virtual reality filmmaker currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. A former assistant producer at Youku, she has an international background in narrative film, television news, online entertainment, and visual effects, with a special focus on postproduction. She holds a degree in television production from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and is now pursuing an MFA in filmmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
(Update provided in May 2019)