Hopscotch (2015)
Narrative Short, 10 minutes
Writer | Director | Editor
Matt once moved easily within the rules of the game. Now, as an adult, the rules feel imposed.
Matt and Emma have known each other since childhood. The tension in their relationships has been building and it finally explodes at the Halloween night with a kid's prank. At the moment when he decides to walk away, the present slips. Fragments of the past surface as he watches himself, younger, playing hopscotch.
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Awards:
Best Student Drama/ Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards April 2015
Saturday Matinee Awards, 3rd Place/ Media Film Festival 2016
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Official Selection
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 2016
Media Film Festival 2016
Chinese American Film Festival 2015
Amarcort Film Festival 2015
Cape May Film Festival 2015
Invited Screening:
University Film and Video Association 2015 National Conference
Washington, DC August 2015
Temple Shorts, Ambler Theater, Ambler, PA (October 2015)
Filmadelphia, Roxy Theater, Philadelpiha, PA (November 2015)
Publication: CinéWomen fifth edition, December 2015
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​Director's Statement
​Hopscotch is an ancient game which appears in different cultures. For me, it is fascinating to imagine the origin of the game and how it spread. In Taiwan, the shape of hopscotch is associated with the image of a house. This is the beginning of Hopscotch. I conceived the idea of a Taiwanese girl who meets an American boy, and hopscotch connects them until the moment when they need to decide if they are going to build a real home together. The film tries to explore the fusion of memory, imagination and reality. The structure is fragmented but eventually all the elements come to a whole. The story is set as a flashback. I believe that is what we see when we look back to certain critical moments in our life. The memory is scoured and altered by the present. Ultimately, that is what we really own. Hopscotch shares not only a love story, but also the difficulties that we might encounter no matter who we are, or where we are from. But the game continues, and life moves on.