Iron Hands (铁手)

As a 12-year-old girl prepares for her final test trying out for the traditionally all-boys Chinese youth Olympic weightlifting team, she makes an unlikely connection with the gym’s reclusive groundskeeper.

16th Tribeca Film Festival *World Premiere*

Written & Directed by
Johnson Cheng

Produced by
Tianqi Zhuo

Executive Producer
Felicity Wang

Co-Producer
Xixi Wang

Director of Photography
Shipei Wen

Film Editor
Johnson Cheng

Production Designer
Mengna Jiang

Original Score by
Zeke Khaseli
Yudhi Arfani

Starring

Weightlifter Girl
Zixuan Liu

Groundskeeper
Xing Lian

Coach
Tao Wei

Weightlifter Boys
Jianbin Huang
Dunhua Kang
Jiaming Wang
Aonan Wu
Zhaoshun Xie

Crew

First Assistant Director
Tianqi Zhuo

Casting Director
Ming Yi

Associate Producer
Yachi Yang

Sound Recordists
Jingxi Guo
Shanying Wang

Gaffers
Tiange Bei
Hao Wei

1st Assistant Camera
Dongsheng Zhang

2nd Assistant Camera
Zhenjie Yan

Colorists
Markus Englmair
Mikki Crisostomo

Sound Editor | Re-recording Mixer
William Hsieh

Graphic Designers
Maggie Briggs
James Lien

Title Design by
Yudho Aditya

Production Assistant
Chenxi Li

Driver
Zhujun Sun

Filmed on location in Beijing, China

Produced in partial fulfillment of the MFA degree in Film at Columbia University School of the Arts.

https://directorsnotes.com/2020/04/20/johnson-cheng-iron-hands/