Shedding
Synopsis
In a dark, isolated home, a Chinese American teenage girl lives under the strict control of her mother, who treats punishment as care and obedience as survival. As the girl’s compulsive hair-pulling turns into a secret obsession, the tension between them builds toward a violent confrontation.
Meet the Filmmaker
Meet the Filmmaker
Peiqi
Peng
Director
Peiqi Peng tells socially conscious female and queer stories
through genre-bending forms, combining gore, fantasy, and absurdist elements with naturalistic
sensibilities.
Her recent short, A Roadside Banquet, went to a dozen Oscar-Qualifying film festivals, including
the prestigious FIRST...Read more
Peiqi Peng tells socially conscious female and queer stories
through genre-bending forms, combining gore, fantasy, and absurdist elements with naturalistic
sensibilities.
Her recent short, A Roadside Banquet, went to a dozen Oscar-Qualifying film festivals, including
the prestigious FIRST International Film Festival—often seen as the ‘Chinese Sundance’
—and was
broadcast on KCET/PBS. She was nominated at the YDA Awards, and her short was screened at
the American Pavilion showcase at Cannes 2024.
Peng is a Chinese director living in LA, with a BFA in Media Arts Production & Post-Colonial
Studies from Emerson College and a MFA in Directing from the American Film Institute. A child
fantasy writer who later studied Sociology.
Before she became a director, Peng did script development work for FilmNation, Partizan, and
Imagine Entertainment. She is a 2025 Film Independent Project Involve directing fellow. Read less
