Cowboy Joe Redux
WRITER & DIRECTOR: Jingjing Tian
GENRE: Drama Comedy
FORMAT: Narrative Short
STATUS: Pre-Production
SYNOPSIS: A Chinese girl learns the meaning of identity and standing up for herself by watching Spaghetti Westerns. The script is a Sundance Co//ab Imagined Futures award winner.
About the filmmaker
JINGJING TIAN is a Chinese American filmmaker based in NYC. She likes to make films about people who stand up for themselves and others in unexpected ways. Raised in China and Texas, she speaks Mandarin and Texan--with a twang. Her work has been featured in Paper Magazine, AM New York, High Country News, South China Morning Post, and more. She is a Sundance Writer's Lab and Sundance Sloan Foundation semifinalist.