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Writer-Director Wendi Tang On Tackling The Complex Female Experience  in ‘Fishtank’— HollyShorts Film Festival


Writer-director Wendi Tang talks to Deadline about her surrealist drama short film Fishtank showing at the HollyShorts Film Festival 2024

In the surrealist drama Fishtank, which won the grand prize in the Tribeca Chanel Through Her Lends program, a young woman named Jules (Tiffany Chu), coming to terms with her year-long sobriety, finds herself with a new affliction: vomiting up goldfish when triggered by anxiety. Sometimes, I would also ask my friends to come to my apartment to play games after school, and a lot of the time, we ended up discussing a TV show we had seen and asking ourselves how we could recreate them. I didn’t know the word for directing yet, but I ended up taking the directorial role in the group and telling them who was playing who, where they should be, and how to recreate the scene we were going for.

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