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All About My Son

A conservative Taiwanese mother and a British gay man meet to discuss his involvement in her son’s life and the finer details of her son’s death.

From award-winning OBSCURAE Productions - A story of grief, contradictions, and cross-cultural understanding from visionary first-time director, Gin Huang.

  • Gin Huang
    Director
  • Gin Huang
    Writer
  • Gin Huang
    Producer
  • Umnia El-Neil
    Producer
  • Anna Shakour
    Producer
  • Rob Hughes
    Key Cast
    "LIAM"
  • Chizuko Baynard-Smith
    Key Cast
    "MOTHER"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, LGBTQ+
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 21 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 28, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    700 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • LGBT+ Film Festival Poland
    Warsaw
    Poland
    April 4, 2025
    World Premiere
Director Biography - Gin Huang

Taiwanese Journalist/Economist-turned-Writer/Director Gin Huang has been writing analytical reports for The Economist Group since 2013, dividing his time between Taipei, New York City, Frankfurt and London. His urban ethnography, New Yorkology, was published by China Times Publishing in Taiwan in 2015 and earned critical acclaim. The book includes well-received real-life and fictional stories that encourage him to transitions to screenplay writing and, after study at Raindance Film School, filmmaking. With a concentration on broadcasting journalism in college, he earned a national prize for a 2-minute news clip in Taiwan.

His time in London in 2016 inspired the events of his debut feature, 'All About My Son', the first episode of his planned trilogy of globalization that deals with the movement of people, goods and capitals across borders, respectively. This vital issue, dominating inter- and intra-national politics nowadays, was part of his thesis for his pursuit of a PhD in Economics before he left academia. The Proof-of-Concept Short of the same name stars Rob Hughes and Chizuko Baynard-Smith in a restrained but expressive story of grief, contradiction, regret and cross-cultural understanding.

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Director Statement

All About My Son is inspired by real-life events - as a gay man closeted to his family, I was shocked by the Orlando nightclub shooting in June 2016. I, a gay bar attendee, kept wondering how my conservative parents would cope with such a tragedy if they eventually learned my sexual orientation through my death at a gay venue. Making this film is the most graceful approach for me to come out to them.

What also happened in summer 2016, that both struck and inspired me, was my ménage à trois with a married gay couple. Our relationship that involved both joy and deceit made me question the very meaning of marriage. All About My Son hence attempts to open discussions on a practice so ingrained in human society, but its' nature is rarely examined.

All About My Son is also a proof of concept - a scene chosen from our feature, for not only the feature’s storylines convergence to this point, but also as a stand-alone short film aiming to “normalize” homosexuality, shifting today's queer films’ focus on external discrimination against the gay community to internal challenges facing many gay couples, not least from the perspective of monogamy and infidelity.

Given its inspirations, All About My Son is a dedication to the victims of attacks on a specific group of people for their ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, a kind of violence that still prevails in 2024. We believe that films have the power to heal wounds and hope that our film can bring some comforts to the victim’s friends and families.

All About My Son is also a homage to Pedro Almodóvar, a director beloved by this team. Although our story is not derived from the Spanish masterpiece, All About My Mother, we adjusted the title to pay our tribute to the director whose films on queer and parent-child relationships deeply influence us.