Cast & crew
A small crew, deliberately. Everyone on this list has touched the script.
Core crew
Two of them wrote the documents that make this project exist. The other four joined because of what those documents said.
Director · Script Writer
Ka-Yan LEE graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in Film Editing. She is now developing time-based media, currently living in Berlin, and creating war-related videos. Her directing and script-writing short film “Two of Us” was awarded Special Mention at the 10th Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival. After graduating from HKAPA she participated in the post-production editing of several local films.
Statement
Executive Producer
In 2008, Kai-Yin NG graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a bachelor's degree in film and television, and in 2013 he graduated with a master's degree in cultural management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He established Myth Signs in 2010, producing film, television and promotional works for enterprises and institutions — including the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, ING Macau, the HKAPA Alumni Association, Value Partners Group, Orbis Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Family Welfare Society, The Warehouse Teenage Club and Green Sense. In recent years he has been preparing a documentary about the handmade trails of Mui Tsz Lam, Hong Kong.
Camera · Lighting
Responsible for the film's four-rule lighting grammar and for a shot list built almost entirely from locked frames. Works exclusively with practical and available sources; the only unit on the short's equipment list is a bounce.
The visual language
Sound · Mix
Builds the film's tinnitus motif and the layered siren beds that carry the war without ever showing it. Three of the film's turning points are sound events with no corresponding image change.
The sound of sirens
Schedule · Budget
Runs the six-day short as a compressed feature schedule, and holds the cross-border paperwork between the Hong Kong and European sides of the production together.
Anatomy of a co-production
Picture · Assembly
Works from the paper edit the director writes before the shoot, and is the person with the authority to say that a scene proved unnecessary — including scenes that cost the production a full shooting day.
Join us
The short shoots with eleven people on set. That number is a decision, not a budget constraint — the material does not survive a crowd. When we do bring someone in, it is usually because a specific scene demands a specific skill.
If you work in production design, costume, intimacy coordination, or in Ukrainian or Russian language support, we would like to hear from you regardless of whether we are currently hiring.
Contact
There is no press office. Messages go to the whole team and are usually answered within a week.
