Private Project

The love story of Su, Shi

Shi Su was known for his poems, writing, calligraphy, painting and ability to offend his emperors. However, people do not know about his tragic loves.

  • Shihyun Wang
    Director
  • Shihyun Wang
    Writer
  • Shihyun Wang
    Producer
  • Peter Hawping Hsui
    Key Cast
    "Shi Su"
  • Ceia Zhou
    Key Cast
    "Concubine Wang"
  • Zen Won
    Key Cast
    "Xun Su"
  • James Chen
    Key Cast
    "Che Su"
  • Chris Wang
    Key Cast
    "Young Shi Su"
  • Daniel Huang
    Key Cast
    "Young Che Su"
  • Joanne Chung
    Key Cast
    "Xun Su's wife"
  • Vigo Fan
    Key Cast
    "Kwa Shen"
  • Wei Song
    Key Cast
    "Kung Tseng"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 14, 2021
  • 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

I love poetry and I love music. Shi Su was a great poet, with tragic life and unappreciated political talent. While I also admire him for writing over 3000 poems. As a filmmaker making more films than people consider "normal" I kind of feel connected to him. This story, although too dramatic to sound real, is based on his real life story. While the poems, other than the last one written by his friend, most likely as a tribute to his life, were all written by him. Although I did add a few personal touches here and there as my tribute to him.