Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way
Director：Hao Zhou
Screenwriter：None
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Producer：Tyler Hill
Cinematographer：Hao Zhou
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Language：English
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SYNOPSIS
Having built a colorful queer life in an American prairie town, an aspiring costume designer visits their island homeland of Guam to make costumes for a children’s theatre and reconnect with distanced parents.
Director Biography
Hao Zhou is a filmmaker from southwest China, focusing on queer and feminist themes. Zhou’s films include THE NIGHT (Berlinale Panorama, 2014) and multiple shorts that have screened at SXSW, Locarno, Hot Docs, HongKong IFF, BFI Flare, and others.
Director's Statement
As a queer immigrant from the Chinese hinterland to the U.S. Midwest, I feel many parallels to my own life within this documentary. “Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way” reflects the flows of labor and an attempt to recover joy despite this circumstance. The documentary’s locations are two distinct parts of the United States: the rural state of Iowa and the remote Micronesian island of Guam. A queer creative, such as the film’s protagonist, faces a bounded set of options in their homeland, and so they have pursued a vision elsewhere—a life that is joyful but marked by intertwined tensions with place, economic forces, family, and self.
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