Fen Lin林芬

Production · 創作

Stories told slowly, in two languages創作

Documentary film and bilingual non-fiction as a second method — a way of knowing that stays close to breath, landscape and voice, where the camera waits rather than argues.

Film still from Ani Bond: Choying Drolma — a figure singing at highland dawn

Feature Documentary · 2023

Ani Bond: Choying Drolma

次第花開

Co-directed feature documentary following the Nepali-Tibetan singer and nun Ani Choying Drolma — a portrait of devotion, discipline and the work of building a life for others.

The film is an extension of a research sensibility rather than a departure from it: an inquiry into how cultural authority, gender and spiritual practice are performed across borders and screens.

Awards · 獎項

  • Best Documentary Feature

    Chinese Academy Award of Documentary, 2023

  • Best Sound & Music

    Chinese Academy Award of Documentary, 2023

  • NETPAC Best Asian / Pacific Film

    Warsaw International Film Festival, 2023

  • Best Audience Award

    Warsaw International Film Festival, 2023

Writing · 寫作

Bilingual non-fiction: essays and long-form pieces written in English and Chinese, moving between scholarly argument and personal narrative.

Recurring subjects — information and trust, the ethics of observation, the texture of fieldwork, and what mountains teach about patience.