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My Father My Uncle
Production Country (s) Taiwan Production Company (s) -
Genre Drama Production Spec 4K / Color / 100 min
Production Stage
(or Project Status)		 In Development Expected Date of Completion End of 2022
Total Budget
(Negative Cost)		 430,000 USD Confirmed Financing -
Fellow Name Ivy Yu-Hua SHEN
Director Ivy Yu-Hua SHEN Email of Director Ivyffe@gmail.com
Producer (s) Ivy Yu-Hua SHEN Email of Producer (s) Ivyffe@gmail.com
Profile of the Producer (s) Ivy Shen is a Taiwanese producer with an ample experience in distribution, international sales and acquisition working with the eminent Taiwanese producer Patrick Mao Huang at Flash Forward Entertainment since 2015. As a production coordinator, her recent credits include An Impossibly Small Object (2018), directed by David Verbeek and selected in IFFR, and The Road to Mandalay (2016), directed by Midi Z and awarded the FEDEORA Award in Venice Film Festival. She is currently a 2019 international fellow at Busan Asian Film School (AFiS) and works as the producer for several shorts and feature films. My Father My Uncle is her debut feature as a writer and director.
Logline A rebellious teenager under his strict controlling father turns to his guitarist uncle in search of an ideal father figure. When his admiration for his uncle is tested, music becomes the only cure that bonds the family together.
Synopsis Present day Taipei city, scores of Taiwanese young generation are taking part in a parade to fight for the right to equality. A rebellious teenager, AMIN (17), can’t tolerate his FATHER’s (55) strict and controlling nature who is forcing him to give up his love of the guitar. Amin is on the verge of running away from home when his frequently disappearing guitarist UNCLE (35) comes back home. Uncle not only inspires Amin’s talents in music but also accompanies him with many of his first growing-up lessons — from first time clubbing through first time dating to first time protesting.

Just when Amin sees hope to his imprisoned soul, he finds his uncle and the girl he has a crush on fainted and naked in the toilet, passed out on drug and needles. His admiration suddenly turns to frustration and anger. Amin shuns both his uncle and melody from his life. Until one day, Amin gets the news that Uncle has been sent to prison and also diagnosed with a lethal disease. The news is especially hard for father. Amin and his father visit uncle in prison and to Amin’s surprise, Father picks up Amin’s old guitar and starts singing. Uncle tells Amin that it was father who had inspired him to take up music. An emotional Amin starts humming a song and is joined by uncle and father.

Few weeks pass, the news broadcast that the movement for right to equality has failed. But in the radio, a DJ broadcasts the new anthem for the protest - a song recorded by a high school teenager with his father and uncle.