Midnight Rising (2024) 
Bala Projects and Gorilla Gorilla! Production
8’ / 16mm-S8-MiniDV-Digital / United Kingdom


An intimate portrait of London’s East and South East Asian clubbing community, a world in which the allure of raving, extravagance, and hyperpop becomes an affirmation of love, acceptance, and joy.
 
Best International Short Doc Award, DIFF 2024
◇ Brighter Sound x esea Contemporary, Manchester (2025)
◇ LAB 111, Amsterdam (2025)
◇ BFI London Film Festival, Official Selection (2024)
◇ Norwich Film Festival, Official Selection, British Shorts Competition (2024)
◇ Leeds International Film Festival, Official Selection, British Shorts Competition (2024)
◇ Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Official Selection, Documentary Competition (2024)
◇ Ann Arbor Film Festival, Official Selection, Competition (2024)
◇ CinemAsia Film Festival, Official Selection (2024)
◇ Dublin International Film Festival, Official Selection, Documentary Competition (2024)

Credits:

Director: Aileen Ye
Producers: Kamila Serkebaeva, Aileen Ye
Director of Photography: Laura Seward
Editors: April Lin, Aileen Ye
Executive Producer: Dean Beswick, Kamila Serkebaeva
Production Companies: Gorilla Gorilla!, Bala Projects
Participants: David Zhou, Jason Kwan, June Lam, Ms. G
1AC: Alex Tan
2AC: Thomas Rowe
Camera Trainee: Luke De Borde
Colourist: Karol Cybulski
Sound Design: Aileen Ye
Sound Editor and Mix: Joseph Campbell
Sound Recordist: Isabel Sanchez Danieli
Production Assistants: Courtney Brown, Azamat Mukhtaruly
Van Driver: Kay Holden
Music: Animistic Beliefs, LVRA
Archive footage: Song of the Fishermen (1934), Public Domain Archives
Film Processing: Kodak Film Lab London
Film Scanning: Digital Orchard
Camera Equipment: Cameraworks
Colour House: CHEAT
Colour Producer: Dominic Strachan
Special Thanks To: Eastern Margins, Colour Factory, Ben Marshall, Jenny Zhang