Marta Balaga It’s a family affair for filmmaker Jialai Wang, taking a closer look at her mother and grandmother in feature debut “Paragate,” now showing at documentary festival IDFA.
But she is not done just yet, currently developing a new hybrid doc under the working title “La Revenante” (“The Revenant”). “It talks about both of my parents and about their religion: My mother is a Buddhist and my father is a Christian.
They are both very spiritual and I am trying to understand how they became this way. I think they both led a very difficult life, so they needed this spiritual support,” she reveals to Variety. “At this point, my mother couldn’t live without religion.
She has nothing else. The Goddess of Mercy [known as Guanyin] and her Buddhist master are her family now.” In the new film, she is hoping to approach religion “from the inside,” she says. “I want to create the kind of atmosphere that makes you think of a horror film.
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