Strangers in the Hometown

Synopsis

Wu Dexian loses her job as a comic artist to AI. When she returns to her hometown, dejected, a cross-dimensional intelligent being (the "stranger") wants her to keep drawing so it can enter the human world.

Genre:

Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller

Director:

Zhong Xiaoting

Screenwriter:

Xiao Liangping, Zhong Xiaoting, Liu Junfeng

Producer:

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Production Company:

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About the Director

Director and screenwriter. Studied advertising design as an undergraduate at Guangdong University of Finance and Economics (formerly Guangdong University of Business Studies) and later took a course in the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy. Ten years in advertising creative work and eight years as a commercials director. Her sci-fi short Mister has screened at a number of international film festivals. Honors include the Jury Special Mention Award at the 2022 Golden Rooster Films Project Market; selection for the 16th FIRST project market under the Flamagic Pictures program; the top 20 of the 7th CFDG China Young Directors Support Program (Qingcong Program); and the Surprise Project of the Year at the sci-fi project market of the 3rd Blue Planet Sci-Fi Film Week.

About the Producer

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About the Screenwriter

Xiao Liangping: screenwriter and science fiction writer. Formerly creative director and creative consultant at several international advertising agencies, he now focuses on original sci-fi screenplays. The sci-fi short adapted from his short story Mister has screened at a number of international film festivals and received the Jury Special Mention Award at the 2022 Golden Rooster Films Project Market, selection for the 16th FIRST project market under the Flamagic Pictures program, and the Surprise Project of the Year at the sci-fi project market of the 3rd Blue Planet Sci-Fi Film Week. Liu Junfeng: online fiction writer, author of the sci-fi novel Apocalypse of the Core.