‘Pierce’ Director Nelicia Low Talks Crystal Globe Win And Making Her First ‘American Film’
deadline.comBefore taking on the global stage winning the Crystal Globe for Best Director at Karlovy Vary for her debut feature, Pierce, Nelicia Low represented Singapore on another international stage — fencing — for several years, including competing at the Asian Games in 2010.
Both her passion for the sport and what Low says is a “lifelong calling” to filmmaking collided in Pierce. The film follows a high school fencer, Jie, and his relationship with older brother Han.
Han is released from juvenile prison after seven years for killing an opponent in a fencing competition under mysterious circumstances. The worlds of filmmaking and fencing collide “I actually wanted to be a film director since I was six or seven years old, so way before I started fencing,” Low told Deadline. ” I wanted to be a fencer because of Star Wars.
A lot of people have asked me how I went from fencing to filmmaking, but actually it’s the opposite — my journey has been from filmmaking to fencing. “Singapore is a very practical society but for some strange reason, when I was young, I just sort of knew that I was supposed to do this.
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