The Unbound

This story is about the conflict and resistance between a single mother who wants to control her daughter and a daughter who wants to leave control in a traditional Hui family.

  • Simin Bao
    Director
  • Simin Bao
    Writer
  • Ning Lian
    Producer
  • Jian Wang
    Producer
  • Lijuan Dai
    Key Cast
    "Mother, Lina Bai"
  • Wenhui Rao
    Key Cast
    "Daughter, Xi Bai"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    枷锁
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes 16 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 11, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    7,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Country of Filming:
    China
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, Sonny
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Simin Bao

I am Simin Bao, from China. As an aspiring filmmaker, director and writer, I study Film as an undergraduate at the California College of the Arts. I love to create stories, and I believe creating stories in the film world is where the impossible can happen and dreams become real.

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Director Statement

As a director, I prefer narratives. I am passionate in creating stories and is always trying to use them to touch people’s inner feelings. In my understanding, all stories are about mankind, even the story of animals also insinuates about man, so people is the core of a story. I believe that in a good story, we need to portray different parts of a character’s humanity. I am interested in exploring the real emotion and intention that hide underneath the surface.
In “The Unbound", the story is adapted from a real-life experience. I originally wanted to use this story to show how a girl who lives in an environment she doesn't like and is not satisfied with is, how she struggles, fights against others, and finally grows up. The film is called "The Unbound", but it does not refer to the shackles in the external form, but comes from the girl's own definition of everything she is subjected to as the unbound. She thinks her mother's control of her is the restraint of imprisonment, but it all comes from love.
This is a beginning of my filmmaking. The fetters and emotions produced by the relationship between people is what I would like to further explore in filmmaking.