The Church’s Daughter
United States, 17 mins, Digital
The quiet, devout daughter of a priest, is cast as the Grand Inquisitor in a theater adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, yet she struggles to play the man who tortures Jesus Christ and condemns Him to a second death.
Director: Álvaro Núñez Secchi
Writer: Rosette Jin
Producer: Rosette Jin
Director of Photography: Daniel Cho
Editor: Joshua Kellerman
Production Designer: Jingyi Zhang
Sound Designer: Joshua Kellerman
Composer: Yilun Song
Cast: Anna Roman, Ted McGuinness, Sanam Erfani
Contact: Rosette Jin, jj3267@columbia.edu
Program F
Sunday, May 17, 5 PM
About the Director
Álvaro Núñez Secchi is a Chilean filmmaker whose work explores the quiet construction of identity. Featured at Cannes, the Newport Beach Film Festival, and the Oscar-qualifying Urbanworld, among others, his films reflect on how we shape ourselves, capturing the subtle ways we define our inner and outer worlds.
About the Writer & Producer
Rosette Jin is a Chinese writer-producer and Columbia MFA graduate. Shaped by her upbringing in the humid, subtropical monsoon climate of southern China, her work carries a contemplative and poetic sensibility. She creates transcendent cinematic experiences grounded in authenticity. Her films have received multiple grants and premiered at Academy Award-qualifying festivals.
