18th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 28 - Jul 14, 2019

Photo: © 2019 Film Mall Co.Ltd.

Someone in the Clouds

真愛神出來

Hsiao-pei carries on her family’s fortune telling tradition, almost exclusively giving young women love advice. She also runs her college’s tarot club through which she meets the playfully cocky Chiung-nan, who uses the cards to ask her out. A hilariously rocky romance ensues, replete with a clumsy seduction, an unexpected fire and both figurative and literal ball busting. A host of characters around them add to the fray on their search for the meaning of true love in this hysterical upheaval of the romcom where things are not always as predictable as they may seem.

Directors: Mitch Lin, Gary Tseng
Cast: Austin Lin, Jian Man Shu, Phoebe Huang, Jordan Chan, Yao Yi Ti, Steven Hao
Languages: Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles
2018; 100 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 13, 5:30pm
SVA Theatre

Directors Mitch Lin and Gary Tseng in attendance (Introduction and Q&A)

Gary Tseng
曾國駿

Gary Tseng has worked in film investment and production for years, and is the CEO of the production company Film Mall Co. He has worked on several popular films including The Winds of September (2008), the Giddens Ko penned The Killer Who Never Kills (2011) and Silent Code (2012). In 2018, he produced the Taiwanese fortune telling documentary A Journey With Invisible Friends by Mitch Lin. Inspired by their mutual love of comedy the two made their narrative feature directorial debut together, co-helming Someone in the Clouds, a humorous take on how people turn to Tarot cards to solve their problems.

Mitch Lin
林明謙

Mitch Lin graduated from National Taiwan University and the Graduate School for Theatre Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. He had worked as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Chinese Literature at the Chinese Culture University and editor-in-chief at Men’s Health. After publishing a novel, Lin participated in the screen adaption of The Killer Who Never Kills and co-wrote David Loman. After he made his name in scriptwriting, Lin directed his first feature documentary, A Journey with Invisible Friends in 2018. Someone in the Clouds is Lin’s debut feature film co-directed with Gary Tseng, and the script was co-written with the celebrated Tarot card reader Weng Shi-bei.