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Chin Chi Hua : As a director and screenwriter, Chin’s shorts Lucky Draw (2019) and A Cold Summer Day (2019) have received numerous accolades, including the Golden Bell and Golden Harvest Awards. They have also been selected for the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, and Singapore Chinese Film Festival. His screenplays have also won multiple Awards in Taiwan. Trouble Girl is his first feature film.
𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧 is a Director, Actor, Founder and Film Festival Director of the International Film Festival Manhattan, New York, now in its 13th edition, proudly promoting Filipino, Asian, Scandinavian and European films and presenting them in New York. 👉https://iffmusa.com/ A winner of numerous awards as a director and actor, he has been a voting member of the SAG Awards® (Screen Actor Guild / AFTRA (SAGAFTRA) Union) since 1998. Pedron was also co-founder/organizer of the Soho International Film Festival New York(USA 2010, 2011), director of the Asians on Film Festival North Hollywood California (USA 2013), director of the One FILAM Film Festival Hollywood California (USA 2013), director of the Viva Latino International Film Festival New York (USA 2015) and juror of the Sundayag Film Festival Philippines 2022. Pedron has written film reviews and interviewed celebrities on and off the red carpet since 2007.
Trouble Girl : Just when you thought the Taiwanese family drama might have run dry, along comes Trouble Girl to blow the roof off. Chin Chia-Hua’s explosive feature debut is a blood-red cherry bomb lobbed at the heart of the genre. Ostensibly about a single mother struggling to raise her ADHD-afflicted daughter, beneath its surface actually lies a squirming nest of angst and unspoken transgressions. Twelve-year-old Audrey Lin, in a revelatory turn that scored her a historic Golden Horse Award as the youngest ever best actress honoree, is a pint-sized powder keg as Xiaoxiao, ricocheting between precocity and volatility. Lin Pintong’s harried mom and her ambiguous rapport with teacher Paul stoke the outré psychodrama, creating a hothouse atmosphere ripe with lust and jealousy. Yet, amidst the Freudian fever dream, Jiahua never loses sight of his characters’ frayed humanity. His fractured, impressionistic style doesn’t just mirror the shards of Xiaoxiao’s dizzying subjectivity; it’s a direct tap into the audience’s limbic system. Trouble Girl is a disquieting head-trip disguised as an innocuous domestic portrait—a prickly, paradoxical but ultimately transcendent work that lays bare the viscera of maternal sacrifice and obsession. Chin has crafted a bracing tonic for the jaded cinephile, a daring X-ray of the psyche that jolts the senses and heralds the arrival of a bold new voice in Taiwanese cinema.
Director: Chin Chia-Hua
Cast: Ivy Chen, Audrey Lin, Terrance Lau
Languages: Mandarin with English subtitles
Running : 103 min.
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