Filmed across 7 years, “Twelve Nights 2: Back to Day Zero” is a sequel of a landmark documentary film about stray animals in Taiwan. It follows animal welfare charities and shelters domestically and aboard to reveal the true cause of the stray problem.
The groundbreaking "Twelve Nights” (2013) influenced policy makers in Taiwan to abolish the euthanasia law. This second film (Nov, 2020) also broke the record of being the most crowdfunded Taiwanese documentary film to-date.
Oversea field research and interviews @storiesofculture
“What divides us? The Yalu River. But we are all human. We eat the same bread, drink the same water and breath the same air.
我们都是人，我们吃的是一样的面包、喝的是一样的水、吸的是一样的空气
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On a recent trip to Dandong, a closest Chinese city that borders North Korea, gave us a strong sense of how life can be so different yet familiar on different sides of the river.
This is a mini-documentary produced by BAMM Global. Research and interview by Stories of Culture, directed and filmed by TLHFord.
“I don’t want my son to follow in my footstep. I am doing everything I can to provide a better future for him.
我不想我的下一代跟随我的脚步，所以我能省则省，为了就是能让我儿子能有个更好的未来。”
Truckers are a one of the most hardworking group of people I've met in China. They are entrepreneurial, dedicated and always willing to go the extra mile rain or shine. But they are also one of the most marginalised people in the society, who live on the bare minimum in the hope for a better quality of life. As an ethnographer and insight lead for the Chinese region, I worked with the documentary filmmaker at BAMM to capture the lives of these hard grafters, exploring their lifestyles, living conditions (i.e. the trucks and truck stops) as well as their oil change rituals for Shell lubricants.
photo@TLHFord
Silver winner at the London Brand Film Festival 2018
“When people talk about China, they think about so many people and crazy buildings, but when they think about art or music …they know nothing at all”
Commissioned by Nokia Brand Studio, ‘Just Below the Surface’ and 'Dancing with Strangers' are shorts film that captured the progressive attitudes and dreams of those born between 1980 - 1996. The films told the story of the emerging behaviours of the Generation Y who are finding creative ways to express their everyday adventure that are otherwise hidden from view of the general mass.
“This is a city that never ends. You never know what’s gonna happen to you. You never know which street is gonna open another and you are gonna meet people. I think in its soul it’s a very open-minded city.”
Post-translation work for BAMM's short film about the changing lives of farmers in Guangzhou, China. Directed and filmed by TLHFord.