Private Project

Murmurations from the Heart

Being of East Asian heritage during the Pandemic exposed the ingrained racism, bigatory and hate still felt by many towards people from East and Southeast Asia this is visual monologue of how that felt and still feels

  • Lucy Sheen
    Director
    Abandoned Adopted Here, I know This Face, GO BACK HOME! How the Pandemic Changed My World
  • Lucy Lai-Tuen Chau
    Writer
    Abandoned Adopted Here, I know this Face, I AM NOT A VIRUS, GO BACK HOME!
  • Lucy Sheen
    Producer
    Abandoned Adopted Here, I know this Face, I AM NOT A ~VIRUS, GO BACK HOME! How the Pandemic Changed My World, Murmurations from The Heart
  • Jennifer Lim
    Key Cast
    "Jennifer"
    Hostel, When A Monster Calls,
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Spoken word, Drama, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 23 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 8, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    200 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Moongate Mix
    London
    United Kingdom
    December 9, 2024
    London
    N/A
  • Travancore International Film Awards (TIFA)

    Best Spoken Word Experimental Short 2026
  • Anatolia International Film Festival

    Offcial Selection
  • Toronto Feedback Female Festival 2026

    Offical Selection
Director Biography - Lucy Sheen

Lucy Sheen: made in Hong Kong and exported to the UK as a transracial adoptee. Lucy is a dyslexic actor, published writer, (nom de plum Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen) filmmaker, trainer and transracial adoptee advocate. She loves Dim sum, Yorkshire puddings and tea. She is of East and Southeast Asian heritage.
Her first professional job, the female lead in the ground breaking British feature film PING PONG (1986), directed by Po Ch’ih Leong. The first ever UK feature to look at the history and issues of the British-Chinese community.
Other feature films include Business As Usual (1987) Secrets & Lies (1996), Something Good:The Mercury Factor (2013)
Theatre credits include: Julius Caesar Portia -Bristol Old Vic (1987); Drink the Mercury Ioka nominated for a TMA (first British East Asian actress to be nominated for a major UK theatre award 1990); Hungry Ghosts Tim Luscombe, nominated for an OFFIE for best actress 2010. Plenty directed by the award winning
Thea Sharrock (2011). Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (2016), Snow In Midsummer RSC (2017), The Scar Test Soho Theatre (2017)
TV credits include: Prime Suspect 2; Lovejoy; Eastenders and Nighty Night series 2. Call The Midwife (2017), Casualty (2017) Zapped, The Good Neighbour, Shadow and Bone, Silent Witness, The Witcher, Stillness, Fortune Cookies
Radio credits include: Words On A Night Breeze, Bound Feet and Western Dress. Lucy is currently in postproduction for her independent documentary Abandoned, Adopted, Here [http link http://youtu.be/--KbumU3D_M]
2011 Lucy wrote & performed her solo theatre piece There Are Two Perfectly Good Mes: One dead, the other unborn a dramatic solo performance looking into the issues of growing up as a transracial adoptee.
2012 Lucy’s short play WAITING was selected for the REDfest new writers competition at The Old Red Lion Pub Theatre
Lucy has just won two small writing commissions for 2015
Re:Play writing bursary for Nimble Fish
The Royal Court (Open Court) Commonword
Pains Plough/Tamasha Come To Where I’m From: London - now available by their free App (Come To Where I’m From)
As well as completing the above commissions.
ShoFu, Wianbu Pi now renames Comfort Women was read as part of the 2017 Women and War festival. It is now being adapted (by Lucy) in to a limited TV series in association with Paradox House.
Lucy is also in the early stages of pre-production for Tiffs of Ordinary Madness a short which is also a pilot and prequel for a longer work either a limited TV series or a feature film

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Director Statement

There was a brief period in my life when I knew without certainty who and what I was. For the first six years of my life I truly believed that I was like everyone else. I was a white Caucasian child growing up in rural England.
What a blow to find out shortly after I’d started school that I was not what I thought I was. I was in fact a transracially adopted Hong Kong Chinese foundling. One of one hundred and six, the first ever UK government sanctioned group of children to be transracially adopted by English families during the late 50s to early 60s.
One could say that from that point it was all down hill. My formative years revolved around trying to get to grips with who and exactly what I was. This is something that is a fundamental part of me; the dichotomy of being one thing and being brought up as something and someone completely different. I actually am of multiple heritages I'm predominantly Han Chinese, but also of Dai minority as well as being Native American and also part Sami. What i write, the narratives that interest me are the lost ones. The stories and histories that have been buried, ignored or just simply erased. I place at the centre of my stories characters that are of British East Asian and Southeast Asian decent. Not characters that are side-kicks to a white protagonist and the white narrative but nuanced, complex characters that look one way but speak another.
I'm bring to life an alternate British narrative and history. Including far more roles for women over the age of 50. Because that's who I am