Melt

Directed by Moxie Peng

Type of Project: Drama
Length: 12:00 minutes
Producers: Alexander Wiske, Xiankai "So" Ye, Yun Yang
Editors: Moxie Peng, Yuting Jin
Cinematographer: Prashanth Kamalakanthan

When Little Jia is asked to read his essay about how he spent International Women's Day with his mother out loud in class, he has to hide the painful truth that only his friend Dong knows.

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Moxie Peng is a filmmaker and screenwriter from a small town in Hunan, China. Started her filmmaking career in Beijing, she now lives in New York.

As a queer artist from China, Moxie's subjects are often the farmers and workers in modern China, immigrant ethnic minorities in the US, and the folks in the queer community and often addresses intersectionalities between them. Despite the deeply heartbreaking truth she often tells, as an artist she is still hoping that the twisted storytelling would surprise the viewer and bring a touch of hope into that cruel world.

Currently, Moxie is living in New York and studying in the Filmmaking MFA program at NYU.