Private Project

SHALLOW SEA

A driver who gets complained over and over again for refusing to take passengers;
an ordinary office worker who gets involved in cyber-violence due to a simple misunderstanding and has no clue what he was supposed to do;
a frustrated reporter who fails to chase her dream because of the overwhelming pressure from her parents;
an Uber driver who wants to earn some money after his girlfriend left him for his poor financial situation;
a thief who was aspiring to start his own business from scratch yet betrayed by his own family;
and an A-list celebrity agent who has always been wrongfully treated.

These are the six characters of our story. Their lives are interwoven with each other accidentally and it all begins with some unspeakable reasons buried deep in the “ocean” and it is not something plain and simple for outsiders to understand. All they can see are merely the most obvious truth. As a matter of fact, most people do not even bother to comprehend the origin of every single event, for which those incidents pile up and become unsolvable with the butterfly effect. Every soul has experienced despair, resentments of others, made terrible choice or maybe still failed to understand what one has been through in the end. Yet despite all of these, they still managed to make things right with the good faith from their hearts.

  • Kunyi Zhang
    Director
  • Xun Sun
    Writer
  • Xia Chen
    Producer
  • Zhigang Jia
    Key Cast
    "Lao liu"
  • Xiuyuan sang
    Key Cast
    "Aixi Wong"
  • Jinliang Zhu
    Key Cast
    "Yiqing Zhen"
  • Boxuan Ding
    Key Cast
    "Ren Jia"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    浅海
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 56 minutes 41 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 19, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    200,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Country of Filming:
    China
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Captain Pictures
    Country: China
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Kunyi Zhang

Director Kunyi Zhang
Born on December 3,1990.
Graduated from the les conservatoire libre du cinema français (CLCF)in french.
2016
《A women in the shadow》 Scriptwriter& Director
(Finalist for the 8th Macau international movie festival )
(Finalist for the 1th Festival internation du canada chine )
2018
《Shallow sea》 Director

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Director Statement

Shallow Sea
Director’s Brief

Some said us humans by far could only explore one fifth of the entire ocean. There has never been a single drop of sunshine reaching the uncharted regions a thousand meters below the level of sea. We pretend to know the shape of abyss when only fragments of the shallow sea are caught in our eyes. It is like the two sides of a coin, humans are the shallow sea and humanity is the abyss underneath.

In modern society, mutual understanding is more and more difficult to reach while the boundaries between right and wrong are often blurred. Through this film, we try to truthfully present exactly how our society looks like without any comments and judgments. We hope the audience could think about this very society they live in and their own behaviors that shape this world.