Acclaimed Chinese actor Lyric Lan is set to collaborate with rising filmmaker Lam Can-zhao on his latest project “The Numbered Women.”
The socially-driven drama, which begins production this August, follows two marginalized women – a Chinese van driver and a Vietnamese massage worker – whose lives briefly intersect in a remote town in Southern China. Lan, who rose to prominence with her breakout performance in the television series “Empresses in the Palace,” will take on the role of the van driver.
“The Numbered Women” represents the latest proof-of-concept project from Lam Can-zhao, the Chaozhou-born director whose short films have found recognition at the Berlinale and Pingyao. At just 20, Lam made his directorial debut with “The Dog” and has since built a reputation for centering rural lives and forgotten voices in his work, often exploring the emotional aftermath of China’s mass rural-urban migration wave.
The project continues Lam’s trajectory of examining lives of near invisibility,...
The socially-driven drama, which begins production this August, follows two marginalized women – a Chinese van driver and a Vietnamese massage worker – whose lives briefly intersect in a remote town in Southern China. Lan, who rose to prominence with her breakout performance in the television series “Empresses in the Palace,” will take on the role of the van driver.
“The Numbered Women” represents the latest proof-of-concept project from Lam Can-zhao, the Chaozhou-born director whose short films have found recognition at the Berlinale and Pingyao. At just 20, Lam made his directorial debut with “The Dog” and has since built a reputation for centering rural lives and forgotten voices in his work, often exploring the emotional aftermath of China’s mass rural-urban migration wave.
The project continues Lam’s trajectory of examining lives of near invisibility,...
- 7/4/2025
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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