29 HOUR FAMINE

29 HOUR FAMINE

Directed By Etzu Shaw

USA | Narrative | 16 min

World Premiere

Jenny, a stubbornly headstrong teenager, is this year’s organizer of her church youth group’s annual fasting event. But unlike previous iterations of the so-called “famine,” she seems to be approaching the event with unusual and off-putting intensity, despite her friend Mina’s attempts to get her to relax.

When Jenny discovers a wayward dinosaur cookie crumb in the church, she becomes hell-bent on exposing the culprit at any cost, all while increasing the intensity of the event’s activities, forcing Mina to try to intervene and prevent her from becoming the most hated person in their youth group.

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    Film Details

    1. English, Chinese (Mandarin)

    2. English

    3. World Premiere

    4. 2024

    5. 16 minutes

    6. Comedy

    7. Narrative

    8. USA

      1. Etzu Shaw


      Etzu Shaw is a Taiwanese-American writer/director based in Brooklyn. Her narrative interests tend to dwell within the intersection of all things female, queer, and Asian-American. She is a recent graduate of the Columbia University Film MFA program where she received the Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award for her thesis feature script Killing Jar and a SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Fellowship. Etzu is also the recipient of the 2023 Reel Sisters Microbudget Fellowship and a 2023 Chinh Chu Finishing Prize through Columbia University for her comedic short film 29 Hour Famine.

      1. Gorby Mufan Shih

      1. Etzu Shaw

      1. Anna Mikami

        Yeena Sung

        Jae Shin

      1. Cast: Piggy Chen, Peter Xiao

        Co-Producer: Sharon Mayo

        DP: Jonathan Zhao

        Editor: Fangso Liu

        Composer: David Contarino

        Production Design: Marissa Todd