Private Project

Anchor

A homesick woman meets a boy from her hometown, Taiwan on a Chicago beach.

  • Yihan Lin
    Director
  • Yihan Lin
    Writer
  • Yihan Lin
    Producer
  • Winnie Chen
    Associate Producer
  • Ashanti Sharrieff
    Line Producer
  • Winnie Chen
    Assistant Director
  • Hua Hsuan Tseng
    Key Cast
    "Lydia"
  • Pierce Wei
    Key Cast
    "Ming"
  • Jade Gerisma
    Extras
  • Kierra Lewis
    Extras
  • Hannah Jura
    Extras
  • Henrikas Genutis
    Cinematographer
    The Tenth Year, Speed of Sound, In the Witch's Garden
  • Wally Chinchilla
    1st Assistant Camera
  • Gabriel Jung
    Gaffer
    Flawless
  • Yunlu Li
    Grips
  • Marc Kit Kitahata
    Grips
  • Adri Rubio
    Location Sound Mixer
  • Ivan Joseph
    Boom Operator
  • Kyle Yeh
    Production Assistants
  • Hannah Jura
    Production Assistants
  • Justin Ridgel
    Production Assistants
  • Jade Gerisma
    Production Assistants
  • Kierra Lewis
    Production Assistants
  • Yihan Lin
    Editor
  • Yihan Lin
    Sound Designer
  • Arbob Khan
    Post Sound Mixer
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 39 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 20, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    550 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    Chinese, English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Yihan Lin

Yihan Lin is a Chinese director currently based in Chicago, USA. She currently attends Columbia College Chicago for an M.F.A. degree in Cinema Directing.

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Director Statement

Before I came to Chicago to learn filmmaking, I was studying digital media at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. I have always been focusing on exploring the subtle relationship between people. And after I arrived in Chicago, the start point of this very first project is that I want to convey my feelings for Chicago city as an outsider - it is very diverse with both hustle-bustle and peaceful lakeside, both turmoil and reassurance. The scenery of trains going between the skyscrapers is so amazing to me that I would take Chicago as a “floating city”.

So I created the two characters Lydia and Ming. Both as “immigrant” to some extent, they break away from the city, find connection with each other and spend a wonderful time at the lakeside beach - the place that relates them to their hometown. But what I want to express is more than “nostalgia”. It’s about a sense of belongings that humans beings are always searching for but never getting a chance to own - for a very short period, Ming becomes Lydia’s anchor. But after all, she doesn’t belong to the community she lives in now, nor does she belong to her original hometown any more.