Runner | USA, 2017 (24 min)
​Yung-Jae Chen

​Sunday, March 3
​1:30pm

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Synopsis

Steeped in elements home to San Francisco - fog, wind, and rock - RUNNER disentangles the psyche of one woman training for the most important run of her life, one she cannot win, but one that will ultimately atone for her past.

Official Selection: CAAMFest 2018, Imagine Film Festival 2018 (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror)
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Director's Statement

​This is a film about the spoken and unspoken motivations that move us to action and shape the personal stories we
tell ourselves, defining our purpose individually and collectively. Reasons may confuse us, elude us, but they
ultimately orient us, revealing whether we’re running away from or towards something. When we find our reasons,
we find ourselves.

RUNNER is also a very personal exercise. As a first-time writer/director, I wanted to pay tribute in tone and style to a shortlist of genres, movies, and worlds that have seduced me into a filmmaker. Part love letter to San Francisco and its palatial surroundings, part homage to the structural entanglements of a minimalist thriller, I wanted this film to both pay its respects to and rest on the shoulders of these narrative titans.
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About
​https://www.runnerthefilm.com

​YUNG-JAE CHEN (Writer, Director, Producer) is an American/Chinese/Taiwanese filmmaker born and raised in the Greater Bay Area. RUNNER is his debut short as writer and director. Yung-Jae has 7 years of experience working in the commercial, advertising and media industry. In the past several years, he’s led story-first commercials and campaigns for the likes of Google, Activision, NVIDIA, and more. He received his double BA in Film & Media Studies and Political Science from Dartmouth College.

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