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Hello to Me in 100 Years

What was Taiwan like 100 years ago? What will it be like 100 years from now? Maybe there will be flying cars, and many things can be done by machines. Maybe we will live under the sea or on Mars. Will advanced technology make us happier? What would I say to me in 100 years?

"Hello to Me in 100 Years" incorporates historical audio-visual materials, children’s interviews, and paintings to build a fantasy world of past, present, and future. The conversation might sound innocent and whimsical, yet it reminds us that humanity always surpasses technology. The warm company of friends and family is what we truly long for.

  • Wu-Ching Chang
    Director
  • Wu-Ching Chang
    Writer
  • Wuan-Ling Guo
    Producer
  • Yi-Hsin Liao
    Producer
  • Wu-Ching Chang
    Producer
  • Tse-Fen Hu
    Production Coordinator
  • Wu-Ching Chang
    Animators
  • Shi-Yun Qiu
    Animators
  • Te-Chin Chen
    Animators
  • Jack Lien
    Animators
  • You-Zhen Wu
    Animators
  • Ding Do
    Animators
  • Yun-Jung Chiang
    Rotoscoping Artist
  • Chuan-Chi Lin
    Sound Designer
  • Chuan-Chi Lin
    Sound Mixer
  • Jen-Shuo Chen
    Composer
  • Public Television Service Taiwan
    Distributor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    一百年後的我,你好嗎?
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 32 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 3, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 2022 Chaniartoon - Chania Cartoon & Animation Festival
    Chania
    Greece
    September 5, 2022
    International Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2022 DYTIATKO International Children’s Television Festival
    Kharkivska
    Ukraine
    September 7, 2022
    Ukrainian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2022 BFI London Film Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    October 5, 2022
    UK Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2022 Cinemagic Belfast International Film Festival for Young People
    Belfast, Northern Ireland
    United Kingdom
    October 8, 2022
    Northern Ireland Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2022 San Diego International Kids' Film Festival
    California
    United States
    October 28, 2022
    North American Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2022 Escales Documentaires
    La Rochelle
    France
    November 9, 2022
    French Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2023 Spokane International Film Festival
    Washington
    United States
    February 3, 2023
    Washington Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2023 Athens ANIMFEST
    Athens
    Greece
    March 16, 2023
    Athens Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2023 Cleveland International Film Festival
    Cleveland, Ohio
    United States
    March 22, 2023
    Ohio Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2023 Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival
    California
    United States
    March 24, 2023
    Los Angeles Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2023 Riverside International Film Festival
    California
    United States
    April 23, 2023
    Official Selection
  • 2023 NCCC Film & Animation Festival
    New York
    United States
    May 6, 2023
    New York Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2023 Golden Harvest Award
    Taipei
    Taiwan
    May 7, 2023
    Official Selection
  • 2023 INPUT
    Taipei
    Taiwan
    May 18, 2023
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Wu-Ching Chang

Born in Taiwan, Wu-Ching Chang is an animation director who earned MA. Animation at the Royal College of Art in the UK and BFA in New Media Art at the Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. She is the founder of Aco Creative Ltd. She has worked on commercial and independent animation, illustration, and game concept art since 2014. Most prestigious clients include Channel Four, Tiger Party New York, Velvet Wolf Films, Taiwan Public Television, etc. She worked as the concept artist and cinematic artist for the game Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition.

Her films approach multiple issues of females, modernity, and humanistic views. Her films are often based on cultural context through focused interviews. Except for 2D animation with hand-painted texture, her films contain multiple experimental practices, such as animating with eggs. Through visual art, she tells stories about life.

Her animated short films were screened at festivals around the world. Her film ' My Grandmother Is an Egg' won Jury Special Mention Award at Atlanta Film Festival and Women Make Waves Film Festival and was officially selected at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Animafest Zagreb, Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, SIGGRAPH Asia, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, and Guanajuato International Film Festival, etc. The film was screened at Ars Electronica, Garden Taipei Formosa in 2021. Her film ‘Hello to Me in 100 Years’ was officially selected at BFI London Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival. Her film 'Bird' was officially selected at Norwich Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, Bengaluru International Short Film Festival, Spark Animation Festival, etc.

In recent years, she works as the Adjunct Assistant Professor Rank Specialist in the program of Communication Design at Shih Chien University and the guest speaker at Pennsylvania State University. Besides, she worked as the judge of animation at the Happy Valley Animation Fest, and the Taiwan International Student Design Competition, and as a consultant at Think Tank for Taiwan Cultural Policy at the National Taiwan University of Arts in Taiwan.

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Director Statement

The narrative structure of this documentary animated film is based on the recordings of children's interviews in the workshop. At the early stage of production, the crew held an eight-hour children's workshop and then edited the voice that was recorded through the workshop to build the narrative structure. The film can be seen as a dynamic dialectical process.
It is full of children's imagination of the future world. It combines historical archives and childlike visual styles to create a strong contrast with fun and intriguing storytelling.

From the microscopic to the macroscopic. From the individual, the society, to the universe, and finally back to the individual itself. Through the film, I want to propose two questions to the audience. "Will technology advance in the future world make us happier? Or will it make us more alienated and lonelier?" "The primitive land and community in Taiwan 100 years ago, and the city full of technology and speed 100 years from now, which one is more suitable for living?"

The core issue of the film is humanism. We human beings have been pursuing the richness of the spiritual world. No matter how the world and technology change and progress, one thing will not change─ Life needs each other, so that we won’t be alone.

In addition, the film approached multiple issues through ocused interviews with children, including Industrial Revolution 4.0─Machine replacing human workers and modernity. It shows how the next generation solve the environmental and political problems they will encounter.

At the end of the film, the children's painting presents the imagination of a utopia, a scenery imaginary land of joy and plenty where there is no war and plunder, and man and nature coexist peacefully.