Director
Aonan Yang
Production
Andreas Mendritzki, Nguyen-Anh Nguyen
Language
Mandarin
Year
2011
36 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1
A Winter Song looks into the achingly human story behind a typical Chinese-‐run dépanneur in Montréal.
Zhang, like so many other Chinese immigrants in Québec, runs a neighbourhood corner store seven days a week. Over the years he works diligently in hopes of providing a secure future for his family in their adopted country. Quotidian pressures had lightened somewhat until, suddenly, his resolve and the beginnings of hard-‐won security are challenged by reoccurring symptoms of lymphatic cancer. A drama inspired by a true story, with a cast of real corner store owners.
Screenplay and Direction : Aonan Yang
Direction of Photography : Glauco Bermúdez
Sound Design : Andreas Mendritzki
Editing : Rosie Waterman,TaoGu, AonanYang
Featuring : Yi Jun Fan, Chun Mei Pang
Production : Andreas Mendritzki, Nguyen-Anh Nguyen
Aonan Yang
Aonan Yang is a graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, where he became the first Canadian to receive the Kodak Cinematography Award for the region of U.S. & Canada. After graduation, he founded GreenGround Productions with colleagues, producing the works of emerging Canadian film talent. Aonan’s own works, as well as GreenGround’s films that he has deeply involved have screened around the world at Sundance, TIFF, Clermont-Ferrand, Rotterdam and Berlin, winning awards within Canada and abroad. In 2008 Aonan was selected to participate in the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab, and in 2011 attended the Berlinale on invitation from Telefilm’s Producers Without Borders.
Une Chanson d’hiver, 36 min, Fiction, 2011
In The Depth of Summer, 6 min, Fiction, 2010