DEAD PIGS

海上浮城

By Cathy YAN

SEESAW PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Comedy - Completed 2018

A pig farmer’s entire stock dies and turns up in Shanghai’s waterways leading to a collision of some particularly diverse lives: a hairstylist, an expatriate architect, a waiter in a roast pig restaurant and wealthy businessman’s spoiled daughter.

Festivals
& Awards

Dallas International Film Festival 2018
Grand Jury Prize (Narrative Feature Competition)
Film Club's The Lost Weekend 2018
Lost Weekend Award (Best Supporting Actress)
Seattle International Film Festival 2018
Winner of New Directors Competition
Philadelphia Film Festival 2018
Archie Award (Best First Feature)
Sundance Film Festival 2018
Special Jury Prize (Ensemble Acting)
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2018
Fasken Martineau Best Feature Film Award
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival 2018
Special Mention International Competition
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019
Ricky Jay Magic of Cinema Award
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Comedy, Family, Drama
    • Countries
    • CHINA
    • Languages
    • MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 130 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Cathy YAN
    • Synopsis
    • Five lives suddenly collide when pig farmer Old Wang’s (Yang) entire stock dies en masse and turns up in Shanghai’s waterways setting off a public health crisis. Candy Wang (Wu) is a hairstylist facing off mega-developer Golden Happiness Properties which wants to evict her from her ancestral land. American expatriate Sean Landry (Rysdahl) is the chief architect of the new development. Meanwhile, Wang Zhen (Lee), a waiter in a roast pig restaurant, meets Xia Xia ((Li), the wealthy and spoiled child of a successful businessman.