Be Water, My Friend (2023) [N/A]

Release Date:
May 18, 2023

Original Title:
Be Water, My Friend

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 8

Stay Hydrated

Be Water, My Friend is a satire that follows Zhiyi, a first-generation Chinese immigrant struggling to find his way in America.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Best Boy Grip:
Preston Fuller

Camera Operator:
Kristen Gao

Camera Production Assistant:
Jay Park
Athul Obla

Casting Director:
Nicole Loika Wong

Colorist:
Edgar Reyna
Qianyu (David) Zhang 张千愚

Costume Designer:
Cecily de Leon

Digital Imaging Technician:
Shannon Fan 范佳伊

Director:
Sean Yang

Director of Photography:
David Zhang

Driver:
Karthik Davuluri

Editor:
Shannon Fan 范佳伊

First Assistant Camera:
Rose Saban

First Assistant Director:
Michael W. Zhang 张景纮

Gaffer:
Zohar Varadi

Health and Safety:
Eddy Quinteros
Shaan Sylvain

Key Grip:
Zhongchao Liu 刘仲超
Gary Li

Makeup Artist:
Vanessa Hu
Cecily de Leon

Music:
Lu Cheng 卢铖

Producer:
Matias Montemayor

Production Assistant:
Kate Huang
Emma Han 韩莞佳
Vanessa Hu
Gwyneth Chou 周丞翎

Production Coordinator:
Bryan Tran

Production Designer:
Jessica (Chieh) Ning 甯婕

Script Supervisor:
Isabelle Lui 雷慧怡

Second Assistant Camera:
Allie Leichter
John Yu

Sound:
Alexander Atallah
Max Savage
Athul Obla
Aidan Forte

Sound Design Assistant:
Karthik Davuluri

Sound Designer:
Adam Jamal

Sound Mixer:
Anastasia Cudhea

Unit Production Manager:
Terry Kim
Karla Roxie Arce

VFX Artist:
Evan Bruce
Zane Vieria
Arne Christiansen
Mostafizur Shakil
Oleksandr Muzychenko

Writer:
Sean Yang

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.