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Hollywood dream is not a dream

Using 10 one-minute music video to show how a director with a few young interns won 1100 IMDb awards with limited budget and received 7 Worldfest Houston 2021 awards.

  • Shihyun Wang
    Director
  • Shihyun Wang
    Writer
  • Shihyun Wang
    Producer
  • Ceia Zhou
    Key Cast
  • Chris Weng
    Key Cast
  • Daniel Huang
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    musical
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    October 27, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Taiwan
  • Country of Filming:
    Taiwan
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Shihyun Wang

In 2015, a semi-retired CPA/realtor started a youtube channel, 5 years later, her two channels had 13 million views. Wishing to prove the original videos are not Tube junks, she sent a few late 2016. 5 years later, she got 960 IMDb awards including 8 Remi Awards from Worldfest Houston.

To overcome funding challenges every Indie filmmakers faced, she wrote, edit and produced most of her 500+ films. To prove training and experience comes in second after talent, she made documentaries, comedy, Sci-Fi, horror, musical, romance and even western. To prove we can still make meaningful films during Covid quarantine, she made films in Taiwan and remotely directed many films in USA in 2020. Her 24 films produced during Covid Pandemic won 14 Accolade Global Competition award , 16 Indiefest Awards, 9 Best Shorts Awards during quarantine between Jan 2020 till May 2021. .While 54th Worldfest Houston awarded her with 4 Silver and 3 Bronze Remi for 7 films produced in 2020 and 2021..

It is hard to walk this path, but "Best Film 2017" from Hell Chess Film Festival proved this is the route to take. Thanks for Mindfield, Pinnacle and Royal Wolf for giving me encouragement and support over the years. And thanks for Bare Bone festival for awarding me best produced documentary in 2020. It takes a lot for festival to award an unknown filmmaker top awards but 25th annual Indie Gathering gave 2 awards while 12th annual Socal Film Awards gave out 3 awards.

Thanks to my talented cast and crew. Thanks to the judges and viewers for liking our efforts. Filmmaking is magical, it took me to places I have never been before.

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Director Statement

After working in USA for 30 years, I stayed in Taiwan for the last 20 months. I hired 3 college interns and we made many films in Chinese. We were thrilled when 6 of the Taiwan made films (plus one film remotely directed by me with US crews) won total of 7 Worldfest Houston awards. No media wish to report this story (other than their college newspaper). So we decided to sing our statements.