29 Hour Famine

Jenny, a stubbornly headstrong teenager, is this year’s organizer of her church youth group’s annual fasting event. But unlike previous iterations of the so-called “famine,” she seems to be approaching the event with an unusual and off-putting intensity, despite her friend Mina’s attempts to get her to relax. When Jenny discovers a wayward dinosaur cookie crumb in the church, she becomes hell bent on exposing the culprit at any cost, all while increasing the intensity of the event’s activities.

Directed by Etzu Shaw
Produced by Gorby Mufan Shih

Director’s Bio: Etzu Shaw is a Taiwanese-American screenwriter and director based in Brooklyn, whose narrative interests tend to dwell within the intersection of all things female, queer, and Asian-American. She is a recent graduate of the Columbia University Film MFA program where she received the Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award for her thesis feature script Killing Jar, as well as a SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Fellowship. Etzu is also the recipient of the 2023 Reel Sisters Microbudget Fellowship and a 2023 Chinh Chu Finishing Prize through Columbia University for her comedic short film 29 Hour Famine. In addition to Etzu ‘s own projects, she has worked in development at multiple production companies, including Viacom, Cinetic Media and Gamechanger Films, and has also served as a script reader for the former Sundance Asian-American Fellowship. Outside of film Etzu also works in video art and projection design for theater, pursuing her continued interest in interactive storytelling.

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