Hopscotch

It was always easier to go with the flow of the game as a child. But as an adult, Matt begins to question the game in search of self-identity.

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, Matt's recollection of the past moments continuously materializes while he, as a child, is playing a game of Hopscotch.​

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AWARD&
​OFFICIAL SELECTION
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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

Official Trailer

​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.
                                                                                                                                                                                  - Chung Wei Huang, February 2015