Snake (shé)
Director: Renee Zhan
Producers: Thijme Grol, Venita Hawkes, Jesse Romain, Jon Wardle, Claudia Yusef
UK, 2023, 15 min.
When pressures mount on a tightly wound violinist in a London youth orchestra, her internal monsters take external form.
SNAKE was a nominee for the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, a nominee for the Grand Jury Award at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival, and the winner of the 2023 IMDb Short Cuts Award for Best Film.
Renee Zhan is a Chinese-American director and animator from Houston, Texas. She graduated with
an BA from Harvard University and an MA in Directing Animation from the National Film and Television School. Her shorts have screened and won awards including Locarno, TIFF, SXSW and the Jury Prize for Animated Short at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Renee explores topics of female identity, nature, and sexuality — all things beautiful, ugly, and squishy.
Writer: Renee Zhan
Principal Cast: Xiaonan Wang, Alina Lew, Simon Paisley Day