Talent short film Lab 2025-2026
A Funeral Procession of Fireflies
Director: Cynthia Lin
30’ Fiction
Genre: Drama
Country of production: China, United States
Looking for: Co-producer, Fund, Distributor, Crew
Logline:
In 1990s rural Fuzhou, thirteen-year-old Jing and five-year-old Fei wait for the ship that will carry them to a mother they barely know in the U.S. — but in the end, only one of them leaves.
Cynthia Lin is a filmmaker and visual artist exploring diasporic memories from the Chinese rural south. Drawing from her experience as a “satellite baby” raised in Fuzhou until age five, she crafts magical-realist ghost stories that echo the absence of family. Lin studied film at Yale University and has trained at FAMU in the Czech Republic and EICTV in Cuba. In 2023, she was selected for The Gotham Film and Media Institute’s project development and pitch program, and she is currently in the Linz Film Talent Academy developing A Funeral Procession of Fireflies.
