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導演的話

DIRECTOR’S
STATEMENT

The Wind Sighs is a university project which grew out of my interests in tea,
film and travel. I wanted to tell a story about change and notions of success
from the perspective of an old Chinese tea farmer. A friend introduced
me to the Lin family, plans were set in motion, and I flew to China with
cinematographer Yan Lin, a fellow screen and media production student from
Flinders University.

With our film gear in our backpacks, we travelled by bullet train from Shanghai
to Hangzhou then into the beautiful Fujian mountains. The eastern coastal
region of China had been ravaged by typhoons in the preceding week, and
the country side was drenched in rain. In places, roads were blocked by fallen
embankments and damaged bridges.

It was a challenging project. I was unfamiliar with the language, region and
culture, and jumped in the deep end with technical issues, moody weather and
shifting light.

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