Song Xiaowen
Rachel Song Xiaowen, director, writer & producer, Variety “10 Producers to Watch 2018”, Dual BA degree in Film Production and Philosophy from Peking University, Master's Degree in Arts and Cultural Management from Pratt Institute and Entertainment Industry Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Rachel has founded her own film production and financing company XS Media in 2017, and has been a producer, writer and director since then. Rachel has produced feature films A KID LIKE JAKE (2018) starring Jim Parsons, Claire Danes and Octavia Spencer and Sundance Award winner NANCY (2018). Rachel's first Chinese-language feature film SUMMER KNIGHT has just won Asian Future's Best Film Award at 2019 Tokyo International Film Festival, starring Lu Huang, Lingchen Ji and Ludi Lin. Rachel's adventure comedy film, which is also her debut as a writer & director, CRUSH ACTUALLY, will be released in theaters in 2023.
Director's statement
People eat, pray, love, on their smartphones. In the era of information explosion and emotional anxiety, how can we create a new method of storytelling to deliver the most sensible reality? Is there a possibility for SOUND, as a media, to tell a story without visuals generated by cameras? In THE THIRTEENTH NIGHT, the story reveals itself through private phone calls, the auditory senses of the audience synchronize with visuals in the style of Ryoki Ikeda, creating a flow of changing frequencies. In the suspenseful narrative, according to the characters’ arcs and story beats, we use the montage of auditory points to create an immersive experience for the audience. When a phone call, a signal, a frequency or a supernatural sound breaks into our life, the secrets of human nature start to unravel.
