• The Speech

    Directed by Haohao Yan
    USA/China | 25 minutes |

May 2003, Beijing, China. The SARS outbreak is real. The city is closed. Most students have been sent home. Inside a private boarding school, three eight-year-old girls have to find a way to make sense of the world.

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Director: Haohao Yan
Producers: Xiaoxiao Li
Screenwriter: Haohao Yan
Cinematographers: Anton Shavlik
Editor: Luqi Zhao
Cast: Harmonie He, Gloria Xiong, Chedi Chang
Original Language Title: 黄真真的演讲
Country: USA/China
Language: In Mandarin with English subtitles.
Year: 2019
Running Time: 25 minutes
Contact Email: haohaoy66@gmail.com
Website: https://www.thespeechfilm.com/

director biography

Haohao Yan is a writer-director based in LA. Born and grew up in Beijing, China, she came to the U.S to pursue her B.A. in Film and Television Production at UCLA School of Theater Film and Television. After graduation, she stayed in LA and worked as a freelancer with a focus on Chinese-American coproduction film and commercials. Before attending AFI as a directing fellow, she served as the assistant to the director in the Lionsgate and Hunan TV Chinese-American co-production film, COME ACROSS LOVE.

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