Age: 44
female
Chloé Zhao (born Zhao Ting, in Chinese: 赵婷; 31 March 1982) is a Chinese-born filmmaker. She is known primarily for her work on independent films. For her film Nomadland (2020), Zhao is the second of three women to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), her debut feature film, premiered at Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and earned a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. The Rider (2017) was critically acclaimed and received nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and Best Director. Zhao garnered international recognition with the American film Nomadland (2020), which she wrote, produced, edited and directed, and which won numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Earning four Academy Award nominations for the film, Zhao won Best Picture and Best Director, becoming the first woman of color to win the latter. She also won awards for directing at the Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and British Academy Film Awards, becoming the second female winner of each of them. Zhao co-wrote and directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals (2021). Her latest film, Hamnet, premiered at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival to critical acclaim. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chloé Zhao, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A weary man escapes the pressures of colonial life by retreating into the Catskill Mountains, where he encounters mysterious strangers and falls into an inexplicable sleep lasting decades. When he awakens, the world has transformed—the American Revolution has passed, his wife has died, and his daughter is now a woman with a family of her own. Struggling to comprehend this new nation and his place within it, Rip must navigate the disorientation of being a ghost in his own life. As he reconnects with old friends and discovers how history has reshaped his community, he grapples with themes of time, loss, and redemption. This poignant drama explores what it means to be displaced from your own existence and whether a man can ever truly come home.
