导演：项思宁
编剧：项思宁
主演：王颢喆、Patrick Boyd、李礼、王莹、隗丽
制片人：赵亮、张亦驰、项思宁、Patrick Boyd
摄影：文思茹
类型：剧情短片
时长：20分钟
完成时间：2022
对白语言：汉语普通话、英语
地区：中国、美国
制片公司：无

Director: Sining Xiang
Screenwriter: Sining Xiang
Cast: Haozhe Wang, Patrick Boyd, Li Li, Ying Wang, Li Kui
Producer: Liang Zhao, Yichi Zhang, Sining Xiang, Patrick Boyd
Cinematographer: Siru Wen
Genre: Feature Short Film
Length: 20min
Year: 2022
Dialogue: Mandarin Chinese, English
Region: China, USA
Production Company: —

思宁带着他的美国男友Patrick回中国探望家人。在无意中向他们出柜后，每个人对Patrick的态度都变了，除了思宁7岁的侄子闹闹。

Sining returns to China to visit families with his American boyfriend Patrick. After Sining accidentally comes out to them, everyone’s attitude towards Patrick goes south, except for Sining’s 7-year-old nephew, Naonao.

项思宁是旅居美国的编剧，导演。出生于内蒙古，成长于河北省秦皇岛市，在他转行影视圈之前，他曾是硅谷的一名电子工程师。他毕业于加州大学洛杉矶分校电影系，并获得美学硕士学位。他的短片《美国叔叔》获得美国导演工会评审团奖，棕榈泉国际电影节最佳美国学生短片奖，并在2023年由《纽约客》全球发行。2020年从电影学院毕业后，项思宁在中国创办了伫梦文化公司，并为一家美国新媒体公司担任导演。目前他和伴侣以及两只猫孩子雷蒙德和布里奇特·琼斯居住在洛杉矶。

Sining Xiang is a writer/director based in Los Angeles. He was born in Neimenggu and raised in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province. Prior to embarking on a career in the film industry, he worked as an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley.He graduated from UCLA Film Department and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree.His latest short film Foreign Uncle gained numerous accolades, including a Jury Award from the Directors Guild of America, Best U.S. Student Film at Palm Springs International Film Festival, and was distributed by The New Yorker in 2023. After graduation in 2020, Xiang founded Zhumeng Culture in China and started the work as a director in an American new media company. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his partner and their two cats, Raymond and Bridget Jones.

这部影片《美国叔叔》主要表现的是中国文化对同性恋的态度。我想通过本片展现东西方文化的碰撞，并希望能够帮助改变很多中国人对同性恋的看法。片中的文化冲突是多元化的，一方面从这个美国叔叔对中国文化以及语言的陌生，另一方面来自我的小侄子在没有被社会的环境改变前对同性恋的陌生与包容。

这两个角色之间发展出来的友谊，在某种程度上代表了我自己在中美两地的游走，以及我在中美两国生活中的差异。希望这部影片可以化解一些隔阂。我也希望展示出，通过尝试理解彼此，家庭的纽带可以比以往任何时候都更加牢固。

This film, Foreign Uncle, focuses on the attitude towards homosexuality in Chinese culture. I want to depict the clashes of culture and reshape the way in which we think about same-sex relationship. The culture clash in the film is diverse, ranging from the American uncle’s unfamiliarity with Chinese culture and language to my young nephew’s unfamiliarity with and acceptance of homosexuality before being changed by social circumstances. 

The bond these two characters share can in some ways represent my own journey communicating between China and America, the differences in the lives I lead in each, and hopefully, with this film, some of those walls will collapse. I hope to depict that the ties and bonds of family can remain stronger than ever by attempting to understand each other.