Winnie Cheung
Still: ResidencyWinnie CHEUNG (USA) is a native New York filmmaker at the cross-section of documentary and horror. She mixes fictionalised tales with half-truths for unsettling cinematic experiences. In 2019, Winnie’s morbid animated short Albatross Soup premiered at Sundance and won Vimeo Animation of the Year and Short of the Week’s Short of the Year. In 2021, Winnie produced, sound designed and edited Kier-La Janisse’s epic feature documentary on the history folk horror Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, which went on to win SXSW’s Midnighters Audience Award and Best Documentary at Fantasia. Residency is her feature film debut, and was selected for IFFR 2023.
Filmography
(selection) What If (2017, short), Albatross Soup (2019, short), Exquisite Shorts (2021, short segment), Residency (2022)
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Winnie Cheung op IFFR
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Kier-La Janisse helpt ons onze huidige culturele malaise te begrijpen met dit essay over een mysterieus aspect van horrorfilms.
193'
VS
IFFR 2021
Residency
Een DIY-docu-horror over een artist-in-residence-programma met multidisciplinaire kunstenaressen in NYC.
75'
Verenigde Staten
IFFR 2023