A ROADSIDE BANQUET

China
2022

Director: Peiqi Peng

Language: Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles

The 11-year-old Chinese girl, Mai, turns into a feather duster at her baby brother’s first birthday party, soon after learning her parents only ever wanted a boy.

Screenings

25 July | 14:30 | KZNSA

KZNSA Screenings are free of charge

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Credits

Director

Peiqi Peng

Producer

Ziqi Gao

Screenplay

Peiqi Peng

Cinematography

Tianyi Liu

Cast

Sarah Zhai

Runtime

16 min

Peiqi Peng

Peiqi Peng is a Chinese writer/director based in Los Angeles, with a BFA in Film & Post-Colonial Studies from Emerson College and an MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute. A child fantasy writer who later studied Sociology, Peiqi loves socially conscious female dramas with fantasy, gore, and absurdist elements. Her narrative shorts A ROADSIDE BANQUET, SUNTANNED ORANGE and ADIÓS MUCHACHOS have been screened at various Oscar-qualifying festivals around the world. Peiqi provided script development work for FilmNation, Partizan, and Imagine Entertainment, and worked in creative. She is currently a freelance director creating branded content while developing both feature and shortform narrative projects.
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