Girl in the Water
Fern left Thailand with her husband and child in search of a better life in Malaysia where she works now as a collector of bird’s nests in the swamps. She has lost something important to her on the run, something that even made her steal someone else’s baby.
- Denmark, Malaysia
- 2011, 19 min
- Director: Jeppe Rønde, Woo Ming Jin
- Director of photography: Wan Chung Hung
- Editor: Olivier Bugge Coutte, Morten Giese, Edmund Yeo
- Screenplay: Jeppe Rønde, Woo Ming Jin
- Music: Jonas Bjerre
- Cast: Sajee Apiwong
- Producer: Patricia Drati, Tine Fischer, Edmund Yeo
- Production: DOX:LAB
Jeppe Rønde, Woo Ming Jin
Jeppe Rønde (b. 1973, Denmark) had his feature length debut in 2003 with Jerusalem, My Love, which won international prizes at several film festivals, including Nording Panorama, Taiwan IFF and DOK Leipzig. The Swenkas (2005), Jeppe’s second feature, won a prestigious Robert Award in Denmark in 2005 for “Best Feature Documentary” and Jeppe himself won a prize for Best International Director at Hot Docs in Toronto. In 2010 he directed the critically acclaimed documentary series "The Quatraro Mystery", about the mysterious death of an EU civil servant.
Woo Ming Jin (b. 1976, Malaysia) His work as a filmmaker and photographer has earned him a reputation as one of East Asia’s most promising talent. His first film Monday Morning Glory (2005) screened in Berlin and Locarno, while his second, The Elephant and the Sea (2007), won awards in Torino, Cinema Digital Seoul, Portugal and Spain festivals. Woman on Fire Looks for Water (2009), played at Venice, Pusan, and Rotterdam, among other festivals. The Tiger Factory is only the third film in Malaysian history to be selected to the Cannes Film Festival, the most prestigious festival in the world.