The Cage

"The cage" creates a ridiculous but worth thinking about the reality of the atmosphere, the story is about the female breeder to help developers raise a lion (illegal) in the Spring Festival was disturbed by firecrackers jumped off the building, but the developer has a lion, in order to prevent exposure, the developer asked the breeder to help transfer to her home in the night as compensation, the female breeder let her son to send the lion, But let the lion run away. The three then decided to fake the mother's death by fabricating a lie, stressing that the lion ate the mother, in order to avoid responsibility and demand compensation. The developer had no choice but to pay a large sum of money and no further investigation into the lion. The funeral was held as scheduled, but the mother was tied up really appeared in his funeral coffin, and was about to close the coffin, this time the second escape lion came back, the scene was once chaotic, the end of the beast.

  • YangMing Wang
    Director
  • YiRan Yu
    Writer
  • CongRong Huang
    Writer
  • KaiYin Zhang
    Producer
  • HanNing Guo
    Camera Operator
  • YiQing Song
    Recording
  • CongRong Huang
    Assistant Director
  • TianZe Yu
    Talent
  • YiJing Zhang
    Talent
  • XiaoYue Wang
    Talent
  • Yu Xie
    Talent
  • CongRong Huang
    Casting Director
  • KaiYin Zhang
    Casting Director
  • Rui Wang
    Production Assistant
  • YuBo Zhao
    Production Assistant
  • KaiYin Zhang
    Production Accountant
  • CongRong Huang
    Production Accountant
  • ShiYan Meng
    Focus Puller
  • JinFeng He
    Assistant Camera
  • PengCheng Pan
    Assistant Camera
  • GuangHao Zhu
    Assistant Camera
  • YiChang Zhao
    Loader
  • ZhenDong Xia
    DIT
  • RuoXin Yang
    stage photo
  • Ming Xu
    stage photo
  • WenHao Li
    Best Boy
  • Jun Ye
    Best Boy
  • WenXi Fu
    Lighting Technician
  • HongSen Zhao
    Lighting Technician
  • JinMo Zhang
    Lighting Technician
  • YuRen Wei
    Lighting Technician
  • QiPan Li
    Lighting Technician
  • Ye Tian
    Lighting Technician
  • ZiYun Gong
    Production Designe
  • YueXin Xiang
    Production Designe
  • ChenYuan Xu
    Assistant Designer
  • RuoYan Liu
    Assistant Designer
  • Ming Xu
    Property Assistant
  • HaoYang Zhang
    Property Assistant
  • HaoRan Chang
    Property Assistant
  • HaoRan Chang
    Second Second Assistant Director
  • Wen Qin
    Makeup
  • YiQing Song
    Sound Mixer
  • YiQing Song
    Boom Operator
  • ShiHan Zhang
    Boom Operator
  • YangMing Wang
    Editor
  • YangMing Wang
    Colorist
  • YiQing Song
    Sound Effects Editor
  • BaoXiang Xu
    Creative Consultant
  • HaoRan Chang
    Extra
  • HongQing Chen
    Extra
  • BoHan Wang
    Extra
  • ChenYu Bao
    Extra
  • Yin Niu
    Extra
  • JingXin Mao
    Extra
  • ZiYang Ding
    Extra
  • ChenYang Li
    Extra
  • TongMing Luo
    Extra
  • YiHeng Wei
    Extra
  • WenJiang Zhao
    Extra
  • EnZe Wang
    Extra
  • HaoYang Zhang
    Extra
  • YueYang Chen
    Clapper-Loader
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    逗兽记
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    26 minutes 27 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 30, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Country of Filming:
    China
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Cathay University of Communication, Nanjing
Director Biography - YangMing Wang

22 years old
Chinese director/cinematographer
Born in Sichuan Province, China
Studying in Cathay University of Communication, Nanjing

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Director Statement

As a cinematographer in the short film "The Lost Love"
Won the 2022 Cannes Silk Road Film Award for Best Student Short Film, the 2022 Shanghai SHISW Short Film Festival Finalist Award, the 2022 Eastern European Film Festival Best Student Short Film, the 2022 Tokyo International Monthly Film Festival Honorary Award, the 2022 Dubai Art Festival Honorary Award, and the 2022 Boden Film Festival finalist Award...